The Ryder Cup 2025

In the age of 24×7 sport across endless channels, it’s rare for an event to genuinely stand out. To get you excited weeks in advance. To feel worth booking a day off work for. And even rarer for it to live up to the hype. But the Ryder Cup is one of those events and all of us at FormGolfer can’t wait for Friday morning.
Bethpage Black is the venue, as the USA take on hosting duties following a resounding win for the Europeans in Rome in 2023. The European team is almost identical to that victorious dozen, with Rasmus for Nicolai Hojgaard the only change made by captain Luke Donald. The USA bring four rookies to the party and this year the teams appear to be more evenly matched than usual on paper, which may go some way to negating the usual home advantage that has been such a strong trend in the Ryder Cup over the years.
We don’t feel that the Ryder Cup needs a financial interest to keep it interesting and in fact we’d suggest that it’s easier to find value in a typical tournament than it will be this week. So we won’t be putting up any picks that contribute to our P&L, but just for fun we’ve identified a few options for anyone that wants to play.
Outright
Given how closely matched the teams are, the 14-14 tie at 12/1 wouldn’t be the worst long shot. If pushed, we’d say Europe are the value at 7/4, but the home advantage trend is so strong that it’s hard to be confident. The first morning’s foursomes will be really important and have tended to go strongly the way of the USA on home soil. If the USA get a big lead, it could turn into another runaway home win. So we’d suggest that if Europe can stay close (no worse than 2.5-1.5 behind), that might be the time to get involved in backing them.
Top Points Scorers
A big part of this is trying to second guess which players are likely to play in either four or all five sessions. And then hope they reward their captain’s faith. The three players who make most appeal at the available prices are Tommy Fleetwood (12/1 outright top points scorer), Patrick Cantlay (14/1) and Russell Henley (20/1). All three come into the event in decent form and are likely to play enough to be competitive in the outright market. They can also be considered in the top European/US points scorer markets. Cantlay appeals at 6/1 in the top wildcard market, and Henley makes a good bit of appeal at 2/1 to be top rookie considering that he will probably get more point-scoring opportunities than Spaun, Griffin, Young and Hojgaard. He is our idea of the most solid short-priced pick this week.