FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Just after 11 a.m. Friday, Air Force One flew over Bethpage Black and did not immediately make a U-turn. There will be four more sessions of the Ryder Cup, and whether this instills optimism or dread in the American side is up for debate.
Normally when a morning goes this poorly, you can at least blame the previous night’s tequila. The U.S. sent bombers Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas out first, presumably to rouse the crowd and hopefully rattle the Europeans, and opened with a birdie to go one-up. Then they got smoked. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and his familiar playing partner, Russell Henley, also got smoked. Harris English and Collin Morikawa: also smoked. This was not what Americans had in mind when we invented barbecue, or claimed to.
