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Keegan Bradley said he was seeking \u201cfire\u201d from his United States team from the outset of the Ryder Cup after selecting Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas to open the hosts\u2019 attempt to reclaim the trophy in New York. In what is likely to be an emotionally charged opening foursomes clash, DeChambeau and Thomas take on Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton at 12.10pm BST (7.10am ET).<\/p>\n
\u201cBesides the fact that he\u2019s a world-class player and one of our best on the team, we wanted to send out a fiery group to lead us out with these fans that have been waiting years to see this tournament,\u201d said Bradley, the US captain, when asked about DeChambeau\u2019s position.<\/p>\n
\u201cBryson just relishes these opportunities. He wants them. He\u2019s one of these guys you hear on a basketball team who wants the ball for the last shot. He\u2019s one of those guys and so is Justin. Let\u2019s not forget, Justin is the heartbeat of our team. They are to go out and be a really tough team to beat.\u201d Bradley raced the length of the 18th hole at Bethpage Black on Friday afternoon, waving a US flag to whip up spectators.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m stoked to be playing with Bryson,\u201d said Thomas. \u201cI think trying to set the tone in that first match is always important. I think all of us were in agreement that Bryson needed to be in that first match, and being his partner, I\u2019m very excited that we get to do that together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Match two of the foursomes will see the world No 1, Scottie Scheffler, play alongside Russell Henley for the US. Ludvig \u00c5berg and Matt Fitzpatrick will represent Europe. This marked a slightly surprising call by the European captain Luke Donald, given \u00c5berg combined with Viktor Hovland to trounce Scheffler and Brooks Koepka, 9&7, in a 2023 foursomes contest.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Bryson DeChambeau revs up the crowd during practice. He has been chosen to lead out the US in the morning foursomes.<\/span> Photograph: Paul Childs\/Reuters<\/p>\n Hovland instead has Robert MacIntyre as his partner in match four, with Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay in opposition. The penultimate game sees Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood don European colours against Collin Morikawa and Harris English. \u201cI think it\u2019s our strongest eight to go in foursomes,\u201d said Donald. \u201cWe have so many options that it\u2019s really quite fun for me as a captain.\u201d<\/p>\n Europe\u2019s captain denied he intended to jab at the US team during his opening ceremony speech on Wednesday. In that, Donald made multiple references to money. A theme of the Ryder Cup buildup has been the payment that will be made directly to the US players for the first time. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t directed at the US,\u201d said Donald. \u201cMy speech was directed at my players. I wrote that speech six months ago. We have been very consistent where we stand and what we play for. We\u2019re not concerned about what the US are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/p>\n The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend\u2019s action<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.<\/span><\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n The foursomes selections mean Shane Lowry, Sepp Straka, Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard and Justin Rose will sit out the morning for Europe. JJ Spaun, Sam Burns, Ben Griffin and Cameron Young are the US foursome absentees. All but Burns of that American quartet are Ryder Cup rookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Keegan Bradley said he was seeking \u201cfire\u201d from his United States team from the outset of the Ryder Cup after selecting Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas to open the hosts\u2019 attempt to reclaim the trophy in New York. In what is likely to be an emotionally charged opening foursomes clash, DeChambeau and Thomas take on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[4448,130,14480,896,77,14514,2894,9029,7179],"class_list":{"0":"post-23832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bring","9":"tag-cup","10":"tag-dechambeau","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-fire","13":"tag-foursomes","14":"tag-opening","15":"tag-picked","16":"tag-ryder"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}