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Sean Ingle at Marco Simone Golf Club

Ryder Cup diary: caddies feel the heat and sweary Hovland drops Sky in it

Matt Fitzpatrick's caddie, Billy Foster, helps him line up a putt during the fourballs on day one.
Matt Fitzpatrick's caddie, Billy Foster, helps him line up a putt during the fourballs on day one. Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images

Caddies grumble in sweltering temperatures

Europe were generally reckoned to have “won” Thursday’s opening ceremony, thanks to their captain Luke Donald’s excellent opening address, which began in respectable Italian. That was the result of months of Duolingo lessons, but not everyone in Team Europe was entirely happy afterwards. Some caddies were heard grumbling that they had been kept in the sun throughout the one-hour ceremony – in 31C (88F) heat – while their US counterparts were given the side that was in the shade.

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