Team Europe just did something no Ryder Cup team has ever done before

It only took a day and a half for Europe to make Ryder Cup history at Bethpage Black – and they didn’t stop there.

Europe are focused on making one key piece of history at the 2025 Ryder Cup: becoming the first team to win away from home since Medinah 13 years ago.

“Since 2012, the home team has won every time, and they have won convincingly,” said Rory McIlroy in the build-up to Bethpage. “So whatever team – whether that’s Europe or America – that is the one to break that duck, I think is going to go down as one of the best teams in Ryder Cup history.”

With a sizable lead heading into Sunday’s singles, it’s almost a foregone conclusion, but whatever happens, Europe have already made multiple pieces of history at Bethpage.

Team Europe make history at the 2025 Ryder Cup

Europe made their first piece of history after just a day and a half of play.

They won the first three sessions – 3-1, 2.5-1.5, and 3-1 – to become the first team ever to win the first three sessions in an away Ryder Cup (since the Ryder Cup changed from USA vs. Great Britain to USA vs. Europe in 1979).

It underlines just how rare it is for a visiting side to come flying out of the blocks in a Ryder Cup, and how one-sided things were in the early exchanges at Bethpage.

And they didn’t stop there

And Luke Donald’s men didn’t stop there.

By winning the Saturday afternoon fourball session 3-1, Europe built a 11.5-4.5 lead after two days of action.

That gives them the most points ever after two days and the biggest lead ever going into Sunday.

These records won’t count for much if Europe don’t finish the job – their own own Miracle at Medinah looms large as the greatest reminder of how much momentum can swing in this competition – but it would take an unheralded comeback for USA to avoid home defeat.

Realistically, it may now be a matter of the Americans battling to avoid suffering the biggest defeat ever in a Ryder Cup – which is currently the 19-9 victory they secured at Whistling Straits in 2021.

What chance of a comeback?

Overturning an 11.5-4.5 deficit would be the biggest comeback in Ryder Cup history (again, since the team structure changed in 1979).

1999: USA, trailed 10-6, won 14.5 to 13.5

2012: Europe trailed 10-6, won 14.5 to 13.5 

1995: Europe trailed 9-7, won 14.5 to 13.5

1993: USA trailed 8.5 to 7.5, won 15-13

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