2025 Ryder Cup Sunday Singles Pairings Preview
The Saturday afternoon Four-Ball session is complete, with Europe putting themselves into a commanding 11.5-4.5 position at the 2025 Ryder Cup over the United States.
The Sunday Singles matches are next on deck, and we'll see if the United States can join the biggest comebacks of all-time list or if Europe goes back-to-back and wins a road Ryder Cup for the first time since 2012.
Here are the Sunday Singles pairings:
Match 1 (12:02 p.m. ET)
Cameron Young (USA) vs. Justin Rose (EUR)
If the U.S. are going to have any chance of making history they will need the crowd behind them and a fast start so sending New York State native and winner of two points so far on his Ryder Cup debut Cameron Young out first seems a perfect choice. But playing in his seventh Ryder Cup, Rose is perhaps the man on Team Europe least likely to be intimidated by the first tee, something he has shown in claiming two points this week with a steely demanour. He beat Phil Mickelson in the singles at Valhalla and, famously, Medinah but has not tasted victory since in a 2-3-1 record.
Match 2 (12:13 p.m. ET)
Justin Thomas (USA) vs. Tommy Fleetwood (EUR)
The unstoppabe force meets the immoveable object? This could be a classic. Thomas has three wins from his three singles matches since 2018 but just one point from three matches this week. Fleetwood's singles record is 1-1-1 but he is chasing history as he enters Sunday having claimed four points from four. He did the same in 2018 but then suffered a heavy 6&4 defeat to Tony Finau - can he take his second chance to join the greats?
Match 3 (12:24 p.m. ET)
Bryson DeChambeau (USA) vs. Matt Fitzpatrick (EUR)
DeChambeau may have only claimed one point from four this week so far but he is the heartbeat of the U.S. Team and will be desperate to get another on the board. He has one win and one loss in singles compared to Fitzpatrick's three defeats but the Englishman looks a different beast in New York with two points from three matches and a seemingly more vocal presence.
Match 4 (12:35 p.m. ET)
Scottie Scheffler (USA) vs. Rory McIlroy (EUR)
World Number One v World Number Two - does it get much better? Scheffler so far has claimed the dubious honor of being the first player in the Team Europe era to go 0-4-0 but there is little argument against him being the best player in the world and he is undefeated in singles with a win and a tie, both against Jon Rahm. McIlroy, though, is Europe's talisman. He has 3½ points this week and another would take him alongside Seve Ballesteros on 22½ all-time points and give him a best return in a Ryder Cup. These are two men with plenty to play for.
Match 5 (12:46 p.m. ET)
Patrick Cantlay (USA) vs. Ludvig Åberg (EUR)
Another man to have played all four matches, Cantlay is known as one of the game's great match play competitors. He has one win with two narrow defeats on the last in pairs play so far and has won both his previous singles contests. Åberg has one win from three matches so far and lost to Brooks Koepka in the singles on his Marco Simone debut.
Match 6 (12:57 p.m. ET)
Xander Schauffele (USA) vs. Jon Rahm (EUR)
Schauffele did not arrive in New York in the best of form but has won two points so far and will be hungry to be his team's best performer. He has a win and a loss in singles and comes up against a player in Rahm who he lost to in the foursomes but then beat in the four-balls on Saturday. The Spaniard famously defeated Tiger Woods in the singles on his debut in Paris and while he has not won since, he does have three points this week so far.
Match 7 (1:08 p.m. ET)
JJ Spaun (USA) vs. Sepp Straka (EUR)
Even with the lead they have, if the board is a sea as red as the above matches start to come in, this is when Europe could start to get jittery. Debutant Spaun could be just the man to exacerbate those nerves after his brilliant birdie-birdie finish on Saturday. In Straka, he faces a man who was the victim of that big finish and lost his singles debut in Italy but does have a point this week having beaten Spaun in the Friday four-balls.
Match 8 (1:19 p.m. ET)
Russell Henley (USA) vs. Shane Lowry (EUR)
Debutant Henley has suffered two defeats from two so far and at times has appeared to struggle with the length of a soft Bethpage but he is World Number Three for a reason. Lowry is undefeated this week having won 1½ points alongside McIlroy playing his own ball, although he has yet to win a singles match in two Ryder Cup appearances.
Match 9 (1:30 p.m. ET)
Ben Griffin (USA) vs. Rasmus Højgaard (EUR)
The battle of the debuatants and two players who have played just one match so far and both tasted defeat. Despite being just 24, Højgaard has more career success than Griffin but the American has enjoyed a brilliant 2025 - this could go either way.
Match 10 (1:41 p.m. ET)
Collin Morikawa (USA) vs. Tyrrell Hatton (EUR)
Two-time Major winner Morikawa has been on the end of two comfortable defeats in the foursomes this week and has not won a Ryder Cup singles match in two appearances. Hatton on the other hand has three wins from three in New York and claimed his first singles victory at Marco Simone having previously suffered two losses.
Match 11 (1:52 p.m. ET)
Sam Burns (USA) vs. Robert MacIntyre (EUR)
Burns has half a point from playing two matches with his own ball so far and went down to McIlroy in the singles on his Ryder Cup debut at Marco Simone. MacIntyre has a win and a loss in the foursomes so far and will look to add some wag to the European tail having beaten Wyndham Clark in the anchor match two years ago.
Match 12 (2:03 p.m. ET)
Harris English (USA) vs. Viktor Hovland (EUR)
The biggest question mark in the singles hangs over Hovland, who withdrew from the Saturday four-balls with a neck injury. Should be fit to tee it up, he brings in one point so far this week and a win and a tie in Ryder Cup singles, both against Morikawa. Harris has suffered two foursomes losses so far at Bethpage and lost his only previous singles match to Lee Westwood at Whistling Straits.
In Singles, each match features one player from each team playing 12 total matches. The player with the lower score on each hole wins that hole. If their scores are tied, the hole is halved.