Ryder Cup 2023: Europe 6½-1½ USA – day one, as it happened

Luke Donald's team whitewashed the holders in the morning, then snatched a couple of halves to increase their lead late in the afternoon, on a dramatic day at Marco Simone

Collin Morikawa's opening shot is a nervy one. His drive sails off towards the gallery on the right, and clanks some poor dude upside the head. His ball nestles in thick rough ... though not as thick as the rough Sepp Straka finds down the left of the hole. That was even more jittery, and won't have settled the Austrian debutant's nerves any. Meanwhile the US captain Zach Johnson is taking the barracking his team are copping from the home gallery in good spirit: Fans are the engine behind the Ryder Cup, whether here or back home," he tells Sky with a smile. The energy, the passion, makes it special."

Rahm/Hatton A/S Scheffler/Burns (2)
1UP Hovland/Aberg v Homa/Harman (1)
Lowry/Straka v Fowler/Morikawa