GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy -- World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler could only wipe tears from his eyes and shake his head in disbelief, as he was being consoled by his wife, Meredith, at Marco Simone Golf Club on Saturday morning.
After Scheffler and teammate Brooks Koepka, a five-time major championship winner, suffered the worst defeat in an 18-hole match in Ryder Cup history, 9 & 7 to Norway's Viktor Hovland and Sweden's Ludvig Aberg, the American team was trying to figure out how a weekend that started terribly became historically worse on Saturday.