Here’s how it goes for Inter Miami right now when it comes to the injured Lionel Messi: The team keeps saying he might play, and then he doesn’t play. Messi has a leg injury, the severity of which has not been revealed by Inter Miami. The team announced that Messi would not play about 45 minutes before Saturday's game time.
The former first-round pick criticized teammates and said he could beat LeBron James 1-on-1, among other things.
Waiting to hit his tee shot on the reachable par-4 16th, Patrick Cantlay smiled and gestured with his hands for the pro-Europe spectators to keep up the ribbing they had been giving him all day long for not wearing a hat. Turns out Cantlay got the last laugh. The hatless Cantlay holed birdie putts on the final three holes to earn the Americans a win in the final fourballs match on Day 2 of the Ryder Cup.
Viktor Hovland and Ludvig Åberg has the makings of a lasting Ryder Cup partnership for Europe. For posterity, Hovland took a photo of the scoreboard beside the 11th hole at Marco Simone, where the blowout finished after just 2 hours and 20 minutes. Neither could Scheffler, who was seen a few minutes later wiping away tears and being comforted by his wife.