The Ryder Cup is a golf tournament that is held once in every two years, and is organized jointly by the PGAs of Europe and the United States. The venue for the tournament keeps alternating between golf courses in Europe and United States. Any golf enthusiast is sure to keep track of the Ryder cup schedules while building up one's golf itinerary. The tournament that first started in 1926 is one of the most prestigious golf tournaments in the world and gets audience from all over the world.
The tournament included teams from all over Europe only in 1979, after the Second World War. This was when the Spanish golf players began to gain a lot of popularity and the European team went on to include players from countries like Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden. In fact, the Ryder Cup has also been held in Spain in 1997 and Ireland in 2006.
In order to understand the Ryder Cup schedule, it is very important that one first understand the format of the tournament. To begin with, there are several competitions that are held between players from the two teams. Presently, the format that is followed includes 8 foursomes matches, 8 fourball matches and 12 singles matches. The winner from each of these matches earns a mark for his team and half a mark in the case of a match that tie after 18 holes.
A total of 28 matches are played within the Ryder Cup schedule and these take place over a period of three days which is generally taken to be a Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The general Ryder cup schedule has 4 fourball matches and 4 foursomes matches that are held on Friday morning/ afternoon. The same schedule gets repeated on the Saturday as well. These matches are played by the 8 players the captains select from his team members. On Sunday, however, 12 singles matches are played with every team member participating in them.
Fourballs matches are basically games played with one ball per team, and each team takes alternate shots with it. On the other hand, the foursomes matches are played with two balls, and the best score out of the two is considered.
These matches follow the match-play format wherein the players play against one another and not the course. The score that is maintained is done based on the number of holes gained or lost by the person who has the best score per hole. In case both the players end up on tie after scoring the same number of points, the score for the hole is halved. The match is decided only when there emerges a situation wherein there is a player who has scored more holes than the number of remaining holes. The winning team is decided after considering the cumulative points.
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