2016 Ryder Cup

The 41st Ryder Cup Matches were held in the United States from September 30 to October 2, 2016, at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota, a suburb southwest of Minneapolis. Europe entered the competition as the cup holders, having won in 2014 in Scotland for their third consecutive win.

41st Ryder Cup Matches
DatesSeptember 30 – October 2, 2016
VenueHazeltine National Golf Club
LocationChaska, Minnesota
Captains
17 11
United States wins the Ryder Cup
Hazeltine National
Golf Club
Location in the United States
Hazeltine National
Golf Club
Location in Minnesota

The United States won for the first time since 2008 at Valhalla, and featured the most lopsided American victory since a 9-point win in 1981 at Walton Heath. As in 2008, the U.S. never trailed during the tournament. Ryan Moore defeated Lee Westwood by 1 hole to reclaim the Cup with three matches still in progress. Captain Davis Love III dedicated the win to Arnold Palmer, who had died earlier in the week. A bag from Palmer's captaincy in the 1975 Cup was placed on the first tee during Friday's opening foursomes to honor "The King", and Team USA also swept the opening foursomes on Friday morning for the first time since 1975 when Palmer had been captain. Two days after the matches, the majority of Team USA attended Palmer's public memorial in his hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and brought the trophy at the request of Palmer's daughter Amy.[1]

Format

The Ryder Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. The competition format is as follows:

  • Day 1 (Friday) – 4 foursome (alternate shot) matches and 4 fourball (better ball) matches
  • Day 2 (Saturday) – 4 foursome matches and 4 fourball matches
  • Day 3 (Sunday) – 12 singles matches

On the first two days there are 4 foursome matches and 4 fourball matches with the home captain choosing which are played in the morning and which in the afternoon.

With a total of 28 points available, 14½ points are required to win the Cup, and 14 points are required for the defending champion, Europe, to retain the Cup. All matches are played to a maximum of 18 holes according to the current format.

Course
Main article: Hazeltine National Golf Club
Crowds gather around the 17th hole at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota during the 2016 Ryder Cup

The announcement that the PGA of America had selected Hazeltine as the venue for the 2016 Ryder Cup was made on April 22, 2002.[2]

The order of holes is different from that normally used for the course. The front nine are current holes 1–4 and 14–18 while the back nine are current holes 10–13 and 5–9.[3]

Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
Yards4424296332103526424021864753,7714526065182484484055721764323,8577,628
Par445345434364543445343672

Television

The 2016 Ryder Cup was televised in the United States by Golf Channel and NBC, which planned to provide 170 hours of coverage. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the event was broadcast by Sky Sports; the broadcaster re-branded its Sky Sports 4 channel as Sky Sports Ryder Cup for the week of the event, and planned to broadcast 240 hours of coverage.[4]

Task Force

Following the European victory in the 2014 Ryder Cup, the PGA of America created a "Ryder Cup Task Force". The Task Force consisted of three PGA officials and eight players with Ryder Cup experience. There were three previous Ryder Cup captains: Raymond Floyd, Tom Lehman and Davis Love III together with Rickie Fowler, Jim Furyk, Phil Mickelson, Steve Stricker and Tiger Woods. The Task Force considered a number of issues including the selection of the Ryder Cup captain and vice-captains and the team selection process.[5]

The conclusions of the Task Force were announced on February 24, 2015, with the announcement of a number of changes for the 2016 contest. Davis Love III was selected as the captain, while new criteria were specified for the selection of vice-captains. In addition a number of changes were made to the team selection process for 2016. The 11-man Task Force was disbanded after the announcement and replaced with a smaller 6-man "Ryder Cup Committee" which included Love, Mickelson and Woods.[6]

Team qualification and selection

United States

The United States qualification rules were announced by the Task Force on February 24, 2015. The majority of the team was selected from the Ryder Cup points list which was based on prize money won in important tournaments. Generally one point was awarded for every $1,000 earned. The team consisted of:[6]

  • The leading eight players on the Ryder Cup points list, gained in the following events
    • 2015 major championships
    • 2015 World Golf Championship events and The Players Championship (half points)
    • 2016 major championships (double points)
    • 2016 PGA Tour events. Qualifying events in this category were those played between January 1 and August 28, 2016, including The Barclays. "Alternate" events (those played opposite a major or WGC event) did not earn points
  • Four captain's picks

There were a number of changes from 2014. The number of captain's picks was increased from three to four with the selections being made later than previously, especially moving the fourth and last pick to less than a week before the Ryder Cup, right after the completion of the Tour Championship. The qualifying events included both the 2015 World Golf Championships events and The Players Championship, on top of the four 2015 major championships as in previous years, but only included 2016 PGA Tour events actually played in 2016, thus excluded any other event played in 2015. The qualifying period was also extended because the Olympic Games had moved the timeslot for the 2016 PGA Championship which took place already at the end of July.

The leading 15 players (and including the last captain's pick who was in 20th place) in the final points list[7] were:

Position Name Points
1 Dustin Johnson 11975.111
2 Jordan Spieth 11400.143
3 Phil Mickelson 5919.636
4 Patrick Reed 5710.371
5 Jimmy Walker 5337.662
6 Brooks Koepka 4890.375
7 Brandt Snedeker 4432.539
8 Zach Johnson 4359.597
9 Bubba Watson 4210.011
10 J. B. Holmes 4179.466
11 Rickie Fowler 4079.528
12 Matt Kuchar 4035.220
13 Scott Piercy 3356.841
14 Bill Haas 3239.755
15 Jim Furyk 3032.852
...
20 Ryan Moore 2877.193

Players in qualifying places are shown in green. Captain's picks are shown in yellow.

Europe

The European team qualification rules were announced on May 26, 2015. The basic qualification rules were unchanged from those for the 2014 event. The team consisted of:[8][9]

  • The leading four players on the Ryder Cup European Points List
    • Points earned in all Race to Dubai tournaments starting with the 2015 M2M Russian Open and ending with the 2016 Made in Denmark that finished on August 28, 2016.
  • The leading five players, not qualified above, on the Ryder Cup World Points List
    • Total World Rankings Points earned in Official World Golf Ranking events starting on September 3, 2015 (the start date of the M2M Russian Open), and ending with the Made in Denmark tournament that finished on August 28, 2016, except that (i) all events in the week finishing on August 14, 2016 (the week of the men's Olympic tournament), were excluded and (ii) only the Made in Denmark tournament ending on August 28, 2016, was counted for that week. The Open de France was allocated Ryder Cup points based on the OWGR points scale for a tournament whose winner earns 64 OWGR points, though the winner actually only earned 42 OWGR points.
  • Three captain's picks
    • Announced in the week starting August 29, 2016.

Only European members of the European Tour were eligible for the team and players could only earn points in the above two lists while they were a member of the European Tour. Paul Casey was not a member of the European Tour and was ineligible to earn points or be selected to the team.[10] Russell Knox was not yet a member of the European Tour when he won the 2015 WGC-HSBC Champions. Two weeks after that win, he took up membership in order to try to qualify for the Ryder Cup,[11] but the money and the approximately 90 OWGR points he had earned since the start of the qualification period[12] did not count toward his Ryder Cup point totals. If these OWGR points had counted, he would have qualified easily by finishing fourth on the world ranking list; instead, he finished in tenth place, 12.36 OWGR points from automatic qualification, and was not selected as a captain's pick.[13]

The leading 15 players in the final Ryder Cup European point list[14] were:

Position Name Points
1 Rory McIlroy 4,171,716.36
2 Danny Willett 4,059,360.67
3 Henrik Stenson 3,554,055.09
4 Chris Wood 2,593,023.46
5 Andy Sullivan 2,472,016.00
6 Matthew Fitzpatrick 2,289,796.46
7 Rafael Cabrera-Bello 2,191,913.62
8 Søren Kjeldsen 1,848,804.54
9 Thomas Pieters 1,761,162.28
10 Tyrrell Hatton 1,688,068.41
11 Martin Kaymer 1,676,848.54
12 Victor Dubuisson 1,675,632.53
13 Thorbjørn Olesen 1,628,788.97
14 Shane Lowry 1,535,713.87
15 Lee Westwood 1,525,566.25

Players in qualifying places are shown in green. Captain's picks are shown in yellow. Players written in italics qualified through the Ryder Cup World points list below. Two players qualifying through that list were not in the top 15, as they mainly played on the USPGA tour during the qualification process.

The leading 15 players in the final Ryder Cup world point list[15] were:

Position Name Points
1 Henrik Stenson 380.31
2 Rory McIlroy 319.97
3 Danny Willett 271.99
4 Sergio García 207.95
5 Rafael Cabrera-Bello 179.42
6 Justin Rose 173.09
7 Chris Wood 163.06
8 Andy Sullivan 153.80
9 Matthew Fitzpatrick 153.58
10 Russell Knox 141.22
11 Thomas Pieters 141.18
12 Søren Kjeldsen 121.19
13 Martin Kaymer 120.90
14 Lee Westwood 117.67
15 Tyrrell Hatton 114.35

Players in qualifying places are shown in green. Captain's picks are shown in yellow. Players written in italics qualified through the European points list above.

Teams

Captains

Darren Clarke was named as the European captain on February 18, 2015.[16] He was selected by a five-man selection panel consisting of the last three Ryder Cup captains: Paul McGinley, José María Olazábal, Colin Montgomerie, another ex-Ryder Cup player David Howell and the European Tour chief executive George O'Grady.[17]

Davis Love III was named the United States captain on February 24, 2015.[18] He had previously captained the 2012 team.

Vice-captains

Each captain selects a number of vice-captains to assist him during the tournament.

Clarke selected Thomas Bjørn, Pádraig Harrington, and Paul Lawrie as European team vice-captains in May 2016.[19] He added Ian Poulter in June[20] and Sam Torrance in July.[21]

Tom Lehman was named as a United States vice-captain at the same press conference that Love was named as captain.[18] In November 2015 three more vice-captains were named: Jim Furyk, Steve Stricker and Tiger Woods. All three had been members of the American Task Force.[22] On September 27, 2016, Love selected Bubba Watson as the fifth vice-captain.[23]

Players
Team USA
Name Age Points
rank		 World
ranking		 Previous
Ryder Cups		 Matches W–L–H Winning
percentage
Davis Love III 52Non-playing captain
Dustin Johnson 3212274–3–057.14
Jordan Spieth 2324142–1–162.50
Phil Mickelson 46315104116–19–646.34
Patrick Reed 2648143–0–187.50
Jimmy Walker 37516151–1–350.00
Brooks Koepka 266220Rookie
Brandt Snedeker 35723131–2–033.33
Zach Johnson 408284146–6–250.00
J. B. Holmes 341021132–0–183.33
Rickie Fowler 27119280–3–531.25
Matt Kuchar 3812173114–5–245.45
Ryan Moore 3320310Rookie

Captain's picks are shown in yellow. Davis Love III announced three captain's picks at 11:00 EDT on September 12. Ryan Moore was announced as the final captain's pick during halftime of the Sunday night NFL game on September 25. The world rankings and records are at the start of the 2016 Ryder Cup.[24]

Team Europe
Name Country Age Points rank
(European)		 Points rank
(World)		 World
ranking		 Previous
Ryder Cups		 Matches W–L–H Winning
percentage
Darren Clarke Northern Ireland 48Non-playing captain
Rory McIlroy Northern Ireland 271233146–4–457.14
Danny Willett England 2823100Rookie
Henrik Stenson Sweden 403153115–4–254.55
Chris Wood England 2847320Rookie
Sergio García Spain 361741273218–9–564.06
Rafael Cabrera-Bello Spain 3275300Rookie
Justin Rose England 36266113149–3–271.43
Andy Sullivan England 2958500Rookie
Matthew Fitzpatrick England 2269440Rookie
Lee Westwood England 4315144694120–15–656.10
Martin Kaymer Germany 311113483104–3–355.00
Thomas Pieters Belgium 24911420Rookie

Darren Clarke announced the three captain's picks at 12.30 BST on August 30. Captain's picks are shown in yellow. The world rankings and records are at the start of the 2016 Ryder Cup.[25]

Friday's matches

The tournament began with the alternate shot foursomes in the morning followed by four fourball matches in the afternoon.[26] The pairings for the foursomes were announced on Thursday September 29.[27]

Morning foursomes

Team USA swept the morning foursomes. It was the first time since 1975 that they had swept the opening session and the first time since 1981 that they had swept any session.[28][29][30]

Results
Stenson/Rose 3 & 2 Spieth/Reed
McIlroy/Sullivan 1 up Mickelson/Fowler
García/Kaymer 4 & 2 Walker/Z. Johnson
Westwood/Pieters 5 & 4 D. Johnson/Kuchar
0 Session 4
0 Overall 4

Afternoon fourballs
Results
Rose/Stenson 5 & 4 Spieth/Reed
García/Cabrera-Bello 3 & 2 Holmes/Moore
Kaymer/Willett 5 & 4 Snedeker/Koepka
McIlroy/Pieters 3 & 2 D. Johnson/Kuchar
3 Session 1
3 Overall 5

Saturday's matches

Morning foursomes
Results
McIlroy/Pieters 4 & 2 Fowler/Mickelson
Stenson/Fitzpatrick 3 & 2 Snedeker/Koepka
Rose/Wood 1 up Walker/Z. Johnson
García/Cabrera-Bello halved Reed/Spieth
2½ Session 1½
5½ Overall 6½

Afternoon fourballs

Patrick Reed and Jordan Spieth played together for the fourth time in the 2016 Ryder Cup and, having been paired together three times in 2014, became the first American pairing to play seven matches. By winning their match they also equaled the American record of 5 points set by Gardner Dickinson and Arnold Palmer in 1967 and 1971.[31][32]

Results
McIlroy/Pieters 3 & 1 Koepka/D. Johnson
Willett/Westwood 1 up Holmes/Moore
Kaymer/García 2 & 1 Mickelson/Kuchar
Rose/Stenson 2 & 1 Reed/Spieth
1 Session 3
6½ Overall 9½

Sunday's singles matches

The deciding moment for the USA with reaching 14½ points to clinch victory belonged to Ryan Moore who defeated Lee Westwood on the 18th green.[33] Thomas Pieters became the first European rookie to score 4 points, beating the previous record of 3½ set by Paul Way in 1983 and by Sergio García and Paul Lawrie in 1999.[34][35]

Results Timetable
Rory McIlroy 1 up Patrick Reed 2nd: 7½–10½
Henrik Stenson 3 & 2 Jordan Spieth 1st: 7½–9½
Thomas Pieters 3 & 2 J. B. Holmes 3rd: 8½–10½
Justin Rose 1 up Rickie Fowler 5th: 9½–11½
Rafael Cabrera-Bello 3 & 2 Jimmy Walker 4th: 9½–10½
Sergio García halved Phil Mickelson 7th: 10–13
Lee Westwood 1 up Ryan Moore 9th: 10–15
Andy Sullivan 3 & 1 Brandt Snedeker 8th: 10–14
Chris Wood 1 up Dustin Johnson 11th: 10–17
Danny Willett 5 & 4 Brooks Koepka 6th: 9½–12½
Martin Kaymer 1 up Matt Kuchar 12th: 11–17
Matthew Fitzpatrick 4 & 3 Zach Johnson 10th: 10–16
4½ Session 7½
11 Overall 17

Individual player records

Each entry refers to the Win–Loss–Half record of the player.

USA
PlayerPointsMatchesOverallSinglesFoursomesFourballs
Rickie Fowler232–1–01–0–01–1–00–0–0
J. B. Holmes131–2–00–1–00–0–01–1–0
Dustin Johnson242–2–01–0–01–0–00–2–0
Zach Johnson232–1–01–0–01–1–00–0–0
Brooks Koepka343–1–01–0–01–0–01–1–0
Matt Kuchar242–2–00–1–01–0–01–1–0
Phil Mickelson2.542–1–10–0–11–1–01–0–0
Ryan Moore232–1–01–0–00–0–01–1–0
Patrick Reed3.553–1–11–0–01–0–11–1–0
Brandt Snedeker333–0–01–0–01–0–01–0–0
Jordan Spieth2.552–2–10–1–01–0–11–1–0
Jimmy Walker131–2–00–1–01–1–00–0–0

Europe
PlayerPointsMatchesOverallSinglesFoursomesFourballs
Rafael Cabrera-Bello2.532–0–11–0–00–0–11–0–0
Matthew Fitzpatrick020–2–00–1–00–1–00–0–0
Sergio García251–2–20–0–10–1–11–1–0
Martin Kaymer141–3–01–0–00–1–00–2–0
Rory McIlroy353–2–00–1–01–1–02–0–0
Thomas Pieters454–1–01–0–01–1–02–0–0
Justin Rose252–3–00–1–01–1–01–1–0
Henrik Stenson252–3–01–0–00–2–01–1–0
Andy Sullivan020–2–00–1–00–1–00–0–0
Lee Westwood030–3–00–1–00–1–00–1–0
Danny Willett030–3–00–1–00–0–00–2–0
Chris Wood121–1–00–1–01–0–00–0–0
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