Europe has gained the Ryder Cup, and Englishman Tommy Fleetwood clinched the successful level.
He defeated Rickie Fowler, 2 & 1, in Sunday singles to offer Europe its fifteenth level.
The Englishman clinched the cup on Marco Simone’s sixteenth gap, a drivable par-4 that the Europeans took benefit of all week.
“I used to be so glad to see that tee shot begin off the place it did on 16,” Fleetwood stated afterward. “[My ball] wasn’t actually shifting. Yeah, simply I believe aid, delight, and pleasure. Pleased with all people that’s been concerned this week and simply proud that I’m one of many those who performs a task in what we got here right here to do.”
After Fowler inexplicably discovered the water off the tee, all Fleetwood needed to do was hold his drive on dry land.
He did simply that.
He discovered the inexperienced, eliciting an enormous roar from the hundreds of European followers surrounding the sixteenth gap.
“They’re the perfect. They’re the best possible,” Fleetwood stated of the followers.
“Yeah, they introduced it each single day, they usually have carried us on their shoulders. We gave them loads to cheer about, and once we wanted them, they have been there. And so they have been noisy and pushed us over the road on quite a few events this week. You take a look at the scenes right here. We’re so glad we’re giving them this spectacle as a result of individuals will keep in mind this for the remainder of their lives. Enjoying an element in that and giving them one thing to recollect on the fitting facet of historical past may be very cool.”
Fowler hit a improbable shot from the drop zone, a minimum of giving a glimmer of hope. Fleetwood lagged his eagle putt to a few ft, leaving a birdie putt to win the cup. As a substitute of creating him sink it, Fowler shockingly conceded the putt and the match to Europe.
That put the Englishman 2-up with two holes to play, guaranteeing Europe the half-point they wanted.
The Europeans held a 14-to-10 lead when Fleetwood arrived on the sixteenth tee.
However when he left the sixteenth inexperienced, he had gained it for Europe, capping a troublesome two-year interval marred in controversy because of LIV Golf.
“This yr has clearly been completely different, and kind of just like the panorama has modified somewhat bit for Group Europe,” Fleetwood stated.
“Couldn’t want for a greater bunch of individuals to do that with. It’s truthfully been so superb, and all people is so nice. We’re only one gigantic household, and the bonds we made with all people will final a lifetime, and simply to be a part of it’s a cool expertise.”
In fact, the DP World Tour, which facilitates Group Europe, suspended any golfer who went to LIV Golf. Due to this fact, no European LIV gamers might signify the European Ryder Cup crew.
That didn’t trouble the house crew this week, nevertheless, as Fleetwood and the Europeans dominated the Individuals.
Fleetwood earned three factors for Group Europe, whereas Rory McIlroy led the way in which with 4.
They performed alongside one another twice, because the formidable ‘Fleetwood Mac’ pairing gained each of their foursomes matches on Friday and Saturday.
Then each gamers earned full factors for Europe on Sunday, which secured Group Europe’s seventh straight Ryder Cup victory on residence soil.
“We have now a tremendous group of individuals. We at all times do,” Fleetwood added. “The legacy of Group Europe lives on.”
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