Team Europe make yet more Ryder Cup history as Luke Donald hails ‘superstars’ for hammering home dominance over USA

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The records keep falling for Luke Donald’s heroic European team at Bethpage Black.The 2025 Ryder Cup in New York has been utterly dominated by the visitors so far with Europe securing a five-point lead after the first three sessions. Donald’s Europeans have been brilliant in New YorkGettyAnd their superb play on Saturday morning saw a piece of Ryder Cup history made.This year’s event has seen the away team win the first three sessions of a Ryder Cup for the first time ever.Considering this is the 45th edition of the famous team tournament, breaking that record in the cauldron of Bethpage is quite remarkable from Donald and co.While Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Young beat Matt Fitzpatrick and Ludvig Aberg early on Saturday, the rest of the morning foursomes matches all went Europe’s way.Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood swept aside Harris English and Collin Morikawa yet again while Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton put Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay to the sword.And the morning was topped off by Robert MacIntyre and Viktor Hovland claiming victory over Russell Henley and Scottie Scheffler on the 18th hole.Yesterday, Europe won the foursomes 3-1 as well while they then secured a 2½-1½ win in the afternoon four-balls to boot.It’s been a brilliant performance from all of Donald’s team so far and they only need to get up to 14 overall points to retain the trophy.Donald said: “We saw two years ago, our superstars – Viktor [Hovland], Jon [Rahm], Rory [McIlroy] all made a lot of points not playing together.“You need your superstars to perform at their highest, and they have certainly shown up so far.Rahm and Donald embrace after winning yet another matchGettyEurope's Ryder Cup dominance so farFriday morning foursomes matches7:10am (12:10pm UK) – Match 1: Rahm and Hatton BEAT DeChambeau and Thomas 4&37:26am (12:26pm UK) – Match 2: Aberg and Fitzpatrick BEAT Scheffler and Henley 5&37:42am (12:42pm UK) – Match 3: McIlroy and Fleetwood BEAT Morikawa and English 5&47:58am (12:58pm UK) – Match 4: Schauffele and Cantlay BEAT MacIntyre and Hovland 2UPFriday afternoon fourball matches12:25pm (17:25pm UK) – Match 5: Rahm and Straka BEAT Scheffler and Spaun 3&212:41pm (17:41pm UK) – Match 6: Fleetwood and Rose BEAT Griffin and DeChambeau 1UP12:57pm (12:57pm UK) – Match 7: Young and Thomas BEAT Aberg and Hojgaard 6&51:13pm (18:13pm UK) – Match 8: Burns and Cantlay A/S McIlroy and LowrySaturday morning foursomes matches7:10am (12:10pm UK) – Match 9: DeChambeau and Young BEAT Fitzpatrick and Aberg 4&27:26am (12:26pm UK) – Match 10: McIlroy and Fleetwood BEAT English and Morikawa 3&27:42am (12:42pm UK) – Match 11: Rahm and Hatton BEAT Schauffele and Cantlay 3&27:58am (12:58pm UK) – Match 12: MacIntyre and Hovland BEAT Henley and Scheffler 1UP“Every point matters. We’ve got a lot more points to go.“We’ve got four really strong groups and we’re excited to see how [the rest of the week] goes.”Following his morning win, Fleetwood said: “We played phenomenally well for 12 holes and then for the next few holes it was like one shot away from the match being over.“I made a hash of a couple of things. I just think where we put ourselves made it very difficult for them.“They played great towards the end there but having that buffer, that lead help massively. And then Rory hit that shot on the last and that was good.”McIlroy and Fleetwood have been in superb formGetty Hatton, undefeated at the Ryder Cup so far, added: “It feels amazing to win our point this morning. “To go against two incredible players and ultimately, we’ve gone out there with a job to win for Europe and just so happy we were able to do that.”Rahm is now undefeated in foursomes in his Ryder Cup career and has a record of 6-0.He said: “It’s a joy to be able to play with [Hatton]. “We’ve shared a golf course for many holes and it’s absolutely incredible to watch him play and watch him do what he [does].“What he did on the greens today was nothing short of spectacular.”