The Ryder Cup 2025, the prestigious team golf tournament between Team Europe and Team USA, is back again this year. This time, the continental duel between the world’s best golfers will take place in New York on the Bethpage Black Course on Long Island.
This year’s Ryder Cup will take place from September 26 to 28.
Here you can find all the information about the 2025 Ryder Cup: TV broadcast, schedule, format, and all the players from Team Europe and Team USA.
Ryder Cup 2025: Date, broadcast, players
Ryder Cup date: When is the 2025 Ryder Cup?
The Ryder Cup is held every two years. After the tournament had to be canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and could only take place in 2021, the tournament was moved back to odd-numbered years.
In 2023, the Ryder Cup took place in Rome, Italy. As the continental duel alternates between the United States and Europe, it is the USA’s turn to host the event again this year.
The Ryder Cup 2025 will take place from September 26 to September 28.
This time, the venue is Farmingdale, New York. The tournament will be played at Bethpage Black Course. Farmingdale is an incorporated borough of the municipality of Oyster Bay in Nassau County on Long Island, near the metropolis of New York.
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Broadcast: Who will be showing the 2025 Ryder Cup live on TV and via stream?
The golf showdown between the USA and the rest of the world has always captivated sports fans. Even those who are not usually very interested in golf are enthusiastic about this team event.
Who will broadcast the 2025 Ryder Cup live on TV and via streaming?
The 2025 Ryder Cup will be broadcast live on Sky. The pay-TV channel has the broadcasting rights for all major golf events, including the 2025 Ryder Cup.
Sky will broadcast the 2025 Ryder Cup live on TV, and all subscribers to the Sky Sports package will also be able to stream the Ryder Cup via skysport.de and Sky Go.
On Friday (September 26), the 2025 Ryder Cup will be broadcast on Sky starting at 12:55 p.m. German time, as it will on Saturday. On the final day, live coverage will begin at 5:55 p.m. our time.
The Sky Ryder Cup broadcast will be commentated by Jonas Friedrich, Gregor Biernath, Adrian Grosser, and Irek Myskow.
Ryder Cup 2025 schedule from Friday to Sunday
The Ryder Cup 2025 schedule is as follows: A total of 28 matches will be played over a maximum of 18 holes on the three days – Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Four foursome and fourball matches will be played on Friday and Saturday mornings and afternoons. On Sunday, the final day, twelve singles matches will follow on the Ryder Cup 2025 schedule.
For the fourball and foursome matches, the captains will determine the composition of the teams and the order in which they will play. The respective organizer will decide whether fourball or foursome will be played first.
The respective team captain also determines the order in which the 12 players compete in the singles matches.
Ryder Cup schedule: All dates and times
Format and mode: How the game is played
The Ryder Cup mode is slightly different from “classic” golf tournaments. The game is not played “against the course,” but “man against man” or “pair against pair.”
The 2025 Ryder Cup format will be match play. On the first two days of the tournament (Friday and Saturday), “fourballs” and foursomes will be played, with two players from Team USA and Team Europe competing against each other.
The final day will traditionally feature twelve singles matches. Then it will be decided who wins this year’s Europe-USA showdown. In the singles, the players compete one-on-one (one from the European team and one from the US team). These singles will start on Sunday at 6:02 p.m. German time and will begin at 11-minute intervals.
- Fourball (Best Ball): Two players from each team play their own ball. At the end of each hole, only the better score of the two players counts. The team with the better score wins the hole.
- Foursomes (Alternate Shot): Two players from each team share a ball and take turns hitting it. One player tees off, the other takes the next shot, and so on.
- Singles Matches: On Sunday, the final day of the tournament, all twelve players from both teams compete against each other in direct duels. Each duel is a one-on-one match in which the goal is to defeat the opponent.
Ryder Cup Teams & Players: Who will play in 2025?
The teams consist of twelve players each and a pre-determined team captain.
Six players have qualified for the European team and the American team respectively, and six players have been selected for the team by captains Luke Donald (ENG/Team Europe) and Keegan Bradley (USA).
Who are the participants in the 2025 Ryder Cup? Who will play for “Team Europe” and “Team USA” in this year’s continental duel?
Ryder Cup 2025 Players Team Europe:
- Rory McIlroy (NIR)
- Robert MacIntyre (SCO)
- Tommy Fleetwood (ENG)
- Justin Rose (ENG)
- Viktor Hovland (NOR)
- Rasmus Hojgaard (DEN)
- Tyrell Hatton (ENG)
- Shane Lowry (IRL)
- Sepp Straka (AUT)
- Ludvig Aberg (SWE)
- Matt Fitzpatrick (ENG)
- Jon Rahm (ESP)
- Captain: Luke Donald (ENG)
Ryder Cup 2025 Players Team USA:
- Scottie Scheffler
- J.J. Spaun
- Xander Schauffele
- Russell Henley
- Harris EnglishBryson de Chambeau
Justin Thomas
Colin Morikawa
Ben Griffin
Cameron Young
Patrick Cantley - Sam Burns
- Captain: Keegan Bradley (USA)
The Ryder Cup participants from the USA and Europe
The Ryder Cup 2025 players in Team USA read like a “Who’s Who” of the golfing elite.
In addition to the number one player in the PGA world rankings, Scottie Scheffler, six other players from the PGA world rankings are also in the line-up: Xander Schauffele (3rd), Russell Henley (4th), Justin Thomas (5th), J.J. Spaun (7th), Colin Morikawa (8th), and Harris English (10th).
In addition to Spaun and Henley, Ben Griffin and Cameron Young are two of four debutants on the list of Ryder Cup 2025 participants for the USA.
With Schauffele, Thomas, and Morikawa, Team USA has highly decorated players in its line-up who not only have numerous major titles to their name but also a wealth of Ryder Cup experience.
What does Team Europe look like for the Ryder Cup?
The European team is led by Rory McIlroy. The 36-year-old Northern Irishman is ranked second in the world and is the number one player on Team Europe.
Apart from McIlroy, only two other European Ryder Cup participants for 2025 are in the top 10 of the world rankings: Tommy Fleetwood (England) at number 6 and Robert MacIntyre (Scotland) at number 9.
Behind them are Justin Rose (ENG/number 12), Sepp Straka (AUT/13), Ludvig Aberg (SWE/14) and Viktor Hovland (NOR) at number 15 in the world rankings.
With Denmark’s Rasmus Højgaard, Team Europe has a Ryder Cup debutant.
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Ryder Cup 2025 prediction – who is the favorite in the USA vs. Europe golf duel?
Team USA has the better Ryder Cup 2023 players in its ranks – led by world number one Scottie Scheffler. With Schauffele (3rd), Henley (4th), Thomas (5th), there are three more top-5 players in the US squad.
The Ryder Cup betting odds from sports betting providers see the USA’s probability of winning at more than 59 percent. For the Europeans, the chance is around 40 percent. There is about an 8 percent probability of a tie, which would be equivalent to Europe defending its title.
These statistics clearly favor the US team. The Europeans are going into the three days of competition on Long Island as underdogs.
However, the team competition has shown time and again that many other qualities are required in addition to playing strength. This was also the case in 2023, when the US was in a similar favorite role as this time.
In the last seven Ryder Cup editions since 2010, Europe has won five times – including the last edition two years ago in Rome (Italy). 2021 was the last time the US won the prestigious golf duel.
The picture is not much different if you look further back in the list of winners: the US has only won three of the last 10 Ryder Cup duels. In addition to 2021 and 2016, this was also the case in 2008.
It is also interesting to note that since 2010, the “home team” has won six of the seven matches. Only in 2012 did Team Europe win an away match in the USA. If this trend continues, the USA will win the home match this weekend.
