Jordan Spieth didn’t make the Tour Championship field, the only American player who wasn’t at East Lake last week.
It made no difference in the opening holes of the Ryder Cup on Friday morning. Spieth had the hot putter early, giving the Americans their only lead at the moment. His birdie putt on the fifth gave the U.S. a 2-up advantage against Europe's Tyrrell Hatton and Paul Casey.
At 25, Spieth is already a Ryder Cup veteran, coming in with a 4-3-2 record playing on the last two teams. He's paired with Justin Thomas, No. 4 in the world rankings, who can hardly be called a rookie, but is making his Ryder Cup debut.
And on the seventh, Spieth birdies again to get to 3-up, still the only lead for the U.S.
Rookie with the first eagle
4:04 a.m. (ET): Tony Finau cards the first eagle of the day at Le Golf National, holing his approach shot from the rough on the sixth hole, a par 4 of 290 yards, to even up his match.
Finau is one of three rookies on the U.S. team in this Ryder Cup and is paired with Brooks Koepka in the opening match against Justin Rose and Jon Rahm.
Rose also had a chance at eagle on six but couldn't get his long putt to drop.
And they're off
3:36 a.m. (ET): As all four matches got under way Friday morning in the 42nd edition of the Ryder Cup, Jordan Spieth provided the opening fireworks for Team USA as he nearly holed out for eagle on the opening hole, a par 4 of 419 yards.
Paired with his good friend Justin Thomas, Spieth birdied from about 3 feet to give the Americans a 1-up lead in their fourball match against Europe's Tyrrell Hatton and Paul Casey.
On the daunting first hole with grandstand seating of 7,000, Patrick Reed earned the biggest boos from the boisterous crowd, as you might expect from Captain America. Playing with Tiger Woods in the final pairing, Reed hit his second shot in the water and Woods missed his birdie putt. Francesco Molinari didn't blink as he made his birdie putt to give Europe a 1-up lead.
Tiger got the match back to even on the par-3 second after nearly holing his tee shot. He gets a conceded birdie.
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