The United States will try to end a 30-year drought without a Ryder Cup title in Europe

Americans have never been more confident. Europeans have never felt so comfortable.

The two-year wait seems longer because of the passion that only the Ryder Cup brings to the game of golf. They are both excited to start the next edition outside of Rome, but for different reasons.

The United States cruises to a lopsided victory at Whistling Straits and has reason to believe it can tip the series in its favor with a strong, young team. While celebrating this fall two years ago, Jordan Spieth was already thinking about the next release.

He added: “If we play like this week, the result will be the same there.”

Englishman Tommy Fleetwood remembers how painful it was to see the Americans celebrating.

“We all stopped and thought: ‘We want to have the opportunity again,'” Fleetwood said. “On the return trip, despite our sensitivity, we were already planning what we could do better.”

The 44th Ryder Cup begins on September 29 in Marco Simone with two teams looking very different after two years.

In terms of age, four of the European golfers were over 40 years old. On the other hand, eight PGA Cup players left for the LIV Golf League, and while the European team left them all, the USA set a very high bar to be considered for the team.

Brooks Koepka is the only LIV golfer to return after winning the PGA Championship and finishing second at the Masters.

Five players on the U.S. team were not born the last time their country won the Ryder Cup in Europe. It was 1993 in the Bell Tower in England.

“It’s crazy,” Scheffler admitted of the six straight losses to teams that included Hall of Famers Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, as well as Spieth and Dustin Johnson. “Great players, it shows how difficult it is.”

The 30-year history is hard to ignore, and suggests it’s more than just a coincidence.

Europe favors golf courses that play to its strengths – dense roughs that enhance accuracy, and slower greens to allow more aggressive shots.

Then there are the fans. Two years ago, the gallery at Whistling Straits was almost entirely US-based due to travel restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Marco Simone is the third stadium in Europe to host the Ryder Cup. The other two are Valderrama in Spain (1997) and Le Golf National in France (2018). Both led to European victories, a run they hope will continue.

The Americans want to end that streak and hope to take the Ryder Cup win in Wisconsin to their next stop.