Everything you need to know about the Ryder Cup 2014

It’s the event that turns the typically individual sport of golf into a thrilling team competition of the highest level.

It’s a biennial battle over three days between the 12 best players in the United States and the finest 12 players Europe has to offer.

If you haven’t guessed it yet it is the The Ryder Cup and the 40th edition this year takes place at the legendary PGA Centenary Course at Gleneagles, Scotland.

Match play manual

Unlike most other tournaments on the American and European Tour the Ryder Cup is a match play event.

Match play is a scoring system in which a player, or team, earns one point for each hole they win.

Every match is played over a maximum of 18 holes.

But many battles won’t reach the 18th as teams can easily attain an unassailable lead where their opponents don’t have enough holes left to win points and catch up.

The Ryder Cup uses three formats of match play; Fourballs, Foursomes and Singles.

But what are fourballs, Foursomes and Singles?

Read more: http://www.euronews.com/2014/09/25/inside-the-ryder-cup/

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