'Fearless' Team Europe confident of Ryder Cup glory as Jon Rahm gets bullish ahead of USA tee off
dailyrecord.co.ukJon Rahm has vowed to get Luke Donald’s fearless Roman gladiators off to a Ryder Cup flyer.The fiery Spaniard and revenge-thirsty sidekick Tyrrell Hatton lead Europe off at Marco Simone.
Rahm and Hatton are charged up and the Masters champ says they will sink World No.1 Scottie Scheffler and rookie Sam Burns to deliver an opening blow for Donald’s boys in their quest to rip the trophy back from the United States.
Rahm roared: “We get the honour of opening the Ryder Cup. Setting the stage, which we’ve done before, and I can’t wait to get our first full point on the board.”Donald reckons he’s stuck to Plan A for the opening foursomes by using Viktor Hovland, Ludvig Aberg, Shane Lowry, Sepp Straka, Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood And the captain is plotting to unleash Scotland’s Bob MacIntyre, Justin Rose, Nicolai Hojgaard and Matt Fitzpatrick for the day-one afternoon assault.Donald has full of belief in his pumped-up troops and said: “I would say they’re very fearless.
The atmosphere in the team room is fantastic. Everyone is in good spirits. They’re motivated. There’s a lot of good energy. I’m very excited.“We had a pretty good plan in place.
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