{"id":15526864,"date":"2023-09-28T09:13:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golf.com\/?post_type=article&p=15526864"},"modified":"2023-09-28T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T21:56:34","slug":"can-europe-reclaim-ryder-cup-inside-day-3","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/can-europe-reclaim-ryder-cup-inside-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Ryder Cup Day 3: Can Team Europe reclaim the Ryder Cup this week?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to GOLF.com\u2019s \u201cSeen & Heard<\/a>\u201d video series, in which we give you an inside look at golf\u2019s biggest events through the eyes and ears of our onsite crew. On deck this week: the 2023 Ryder Cup<\/a> at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club in Rome. Let\u2019s go!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICYMI: Inside Ryder Cup Day 2: Team USA\u2019s practice, Marco Simone\u2019s perilous rough<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICYMI: Inside Ryder Cup Day 1: the Colosseum, pasta, early Marco Simone findings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The GOLF.com team had an eventful Wednesday at Marco Simone<\/a>. It all started with James Colgan and Claire Rogers making the stroll to the course in the morning, stopping for espresso and with Colgan acting as in-house translator to communicate with the locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But once at the course, our team spent the day focused on the European team.<\/p>\n\n\n

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First they stopped at the media center for veteran Rory McIlroy’s<\/a> press conference, then straight to the course to follow Rory as he worked through a practice round with European rookie Nicolai H\u00f8jgaard<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Old and young right there, right?” Colgan said. “It makes a lot of sense that Rory would want him. We just heard him talk in his presser about how he wants the guys on the team to look at him as an equal, and not necessarily look up to him as a leader.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that doesn’t mean McIlroy and H\u00f8jgaard will play together during the real matches, as our staff found out during a visit to Luke Donald’s press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In terms of the [practice round] pairings, some of that is determined by on media rotations,” Donald said. “Six of the guys today will be doing media, so you send those guys off in the early groups. So I wouldn\u2019t read too much into it. Obviously, we do have a plan in place, and that plan can be adjusted throughout the next few days.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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