SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Don’t expect the dizzying display of birdies and eagles like at Hazeltine.
Quite the opposite, in fact.
“I don’t think you’ll go anywhere else where you’ll see as many fist-pump pars as you’ll see this week,” Jordan Spieth said.
The difficult course setup for this Ryder Cup didn’t come as much of a surprise to the Europeans. Le Golf National annually hosts the French Open, so the players are familiar with the challenge that the narrow, hazard-filled course presents – the winning score has been single-digits under par three of the past eight editions, including this year, when Ryder Cupper Alex Noren won at 7 under.