Scottie Scheffler has had a rough Ryder Cup.
The number one golfer in the world, reigning PGA Championship winner, and reigning Champion Golfer of the Year played in all four matches through the first two days of festivities.
He lost every single one of them.
It is obviously not uncommon, but it is somewhat rare (relatively speaking) for players to play in all four matches through the first two days of a Ryder Cup. When you have a player like Scottie Scheffler on your team you send him out for them all. That is just common sense.
Unfortunately for Scottie, every time that a player has gone out through the four team matches in Ryder Cup history, more on this in a moment, they have managed to secure at least some semblance of a point. He is the first one ever to go 0-4.
Golf is indeed a game of history and therefore context matters. Scottie is the first to ever go 0-4 in the current format of the Ryder Cup, but this type of feat has neighboring company. Justin Ray noted that Peter Alliss lost the first 4 of 6 sessions back in 1967 before finishing 1-5.
After Saturday morning it was noted that Scottie was the first number one player in the world to lose his first three matches at the Ryder Cup. Unfortunately, he out-did that through the afternoon’s action.
Scheffler played with Bryson DeChambeau in the fourth match in question and they lost to Europe’s Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose. At the time it made the score 9.5 to 3.5 in favor of the Europeans.
