Daily Star Sunday

Jordan eyes up miracle

- YESTERDAY Garcia & McIlroy v Finau & Koepka Casey & Hatton v Johnson & Fowler Molinari & Fleetwood v Woods & Reed Poulter & Rahm v Thomas & Spieth Stenson & Rose v Johnson & Koepka Garcia & Noren v Watson & Simpson Molinari & Fleetwood v Woods & DeChambe

PAIR-FECT COMBO: Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari

Europe win 2&1

McIlroy made four birdies in the first eight holes as Europe went four up and Garcia sealed the win in style with a birdie on the 17th.

Europe win 3&2 Europe win 4&3

Fleetwood’s long-range birdie on the second set the tone which continued with Molinari’s two-putt birdie on the par-five third.

USA win 2&1 Europe win 2&1

Koepka’s stunning approach to the 15th set up a winning birdie but Stenson holed testing putts on the 16th and 17th to take point.

USA win 3&2 Europe win 5&4

Two birdies on the front nine put ‘Moliwood’ in command, although Woods threatened a comeback with birdies on the 10th and 11th.

USA win 4&3

JORDAN SPIETH has urged Team USA to produce some perfection in Paris and pull off a famous Ryder Cup comeback.

Jim Furyk’s men suffered another difficult day at Le Golf National as Europe took five points from eight to establish a commanding 10-6 lead heading into today’s singles. The deficit is one of the largest the US have faced on European soil and Thomas Bjorn’s men are red-hot favourites to win back the trophy.

But Europe came back from the same scoreline to secure a famous win at Medinah in 2012 – and Spieth claims there is no reason why the US cannot do the same thing here.

The three-time Major winner reckons that if the US make a fast start to win some of their early matches and get some momentum going, anything can happen.

Spieth, 27 (above) said: “Momentum certainly is important – if Europe get a couple points on the board we have to win something like eight out of the next 10.

“So we’ve got to get off to a good start, we know that, but even if we are leading we would be saying the same thing.”

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