Ryder Cup 2018 - as it happened: USA take lead after Friday fourballs
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Your support makes all the difference.The 2018 Ryder Cup is underway at Le Golf National. Jim Furyk has selected Tony Finau and Brooks Koepka to lead the US team out in Paris and they will be up against Thomas Bjorn's strong opening pairing of Justin Rose and Jon Rahm.
Rory McIlroy and Thorbjorn Olesen will play match two against Dustin Johnson and Rickie Fowler, Paul Casey and rookie Tyrrell Hatton face Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth in match three, before the much-anticipated appearance of Tiger Woods alongside the fiery Patrick Reed, who play Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood.
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Preview
What time does it start?
It all gets underway at 7.10am on Friday morning with the opening fourballs.
Where can I watch it?
The whole tournament is being broadcast on Sky Sports Golf. You can also stream it online via SkyGo. It is also available on NowTV.
For those without access to any of those The Independent will be live blogging the entire weekend.
Who's playing?
Some of the very best golfers on the planet. Tiger Woods leads the American team while new world number one Justin Rose is Europe's leading light.
Who's going to win?
USA Evens
Europe 5/4
Draw 11/1
Welcome along to live coverage of the opening day of the 2018 Ryder Cup. If your appetite still needs whetting for this one, then look no further than Jonathan Liew's preview:
We're just over ten minutes away from the first tee off at the 42nd Ryder Cup.
And what a way it is to start too. FedEx Cup champion and world no.1 Justin Rose partners Jon Rahm while for the US it's PGA Tour player of the year Brooks Koepka and Tony Finau.
Brooks Koepka won three of his four matches at Hazeltine but missed the cut on his last visit to Le Golf National in 2014.
The 6,500 seat grandstand behind the first tee has been full for over an hour.
The players are now on the tee and it will be the Americans to start. A huge roar goes up for Rose and Rahm and a few boos ring towards their counterparts.
Tony Finau's ball is barely safe from the water on the left but Brooks Koepka is as nerveless as ever easing himself into perfect position in the fairway.
And now it's the turn of the Europeans. Justin Rose takes the lead and sends one down the right side of the fairway. Rahm urges on the crowd who roar back in return and he absolutely crashes it down there. What a way to start your first Ryder Cup.
Ed Malyon checks in from the first:
Well that was raucous. And for all the incredible noise perhaps the most amazing thing is how it all subsides to less than a whisper as the players step up to take their tee shots. If Finau was a little taken by the nerves it showed, the final of the 24 players to be chosen he is just inches from the water and facing a tough task. The other three balls are sitting nicely on the fairway.
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