Pairings announced for Friday morning at Ryder Cup
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — The Ryder Cup will kick off Friday morning with Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas taking on the latest version of the Spanish Armada, Jon Rahm and Sergio Garcia, in the day’s first foursomes match.
They will be followed by Dustin Johnson and Collin Morikawa vs. Paul Casey and Viktor Hovland; Brooks Koekpa and Daniel Berger vs. Lee Westwood and Matt Fitzpatrick; then Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele vs Rory McIlroy and Ian Poulter.
The Friday morning pairings.
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Big-hitting Bryson DeChambeau is not in the lineup. Pairings for the afternoon four-ball will be released mid-morning on Friday.
Spieth and Thomas teamed for all four two-man games in Paris three years ago and went 3-1.
Schauffele and Cantlay went 2-2 together in the 2019 Presidents Cup.
McIlroy and Poulter are 2-1-1 together over their Ryder Cup careers.
Rahm and Garcia have never played together in the Ryder Cup. This is the latest iteration of Spanish pairings, the most famous of which was Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal, who were dubbed the Spanish Armada.