How to watch the Ryder Cup 2025: UK TV channel, tee times & more

Jonathan Victoria • 23 Sep 2025 Guides

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How to watch the Ryder Cup 2025: UK TV channel, tee times & more

The 45th edition of the celebrated Ryder Cup is once again set to deliver a thrilling showdown as Team Europe enters the battleground of Team USA.

Whether you’re planning to tune in from home or catch the action on the go, knowing how to watch the Ryder Cup 2025 live is essential for golf fans.

From TV coverage and live streaming options to key tee times and the full schedule, this guide has everything you need to follow every drive, putt, and dramatic twist.

How to watch 2025 Ryder Cup

The Ryder Cup 2025 will be available to watch live in the UK on Sky Sports.

Sky Sports has been the home of golf for over 30 years, showcasing all the action from the PGA Tour season as well as the DP World Tour (European Tour) and LPGA Tour.

They have also been the hosting broadcaster of the Ryder Cup during that time, and 2025 will be no different as they bring the contest live exclusively on the dedicated Sky Sports Golf channel.

Golf on Sky Sports

Collin Morikawa, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy on a poster for Sky Sports Golf.

As the home of golf in the UK, Sky Sports has a dedicated golf channel that shows round the clock programming, with highlights from past tournaments, tip shows and more.

During majors and for the Ryder Cup, to supplement the main event they show extended build-up the full week leading up to the weekend with interviews and coverage from the range.

Whether you’re a new or existing customer, there are various ways you can get the right subscription.

For existing customers, if you don’t already have Sky Sports but are interested in adding it to be able to watch the NFL and/or any of the other sports on offer, you can simply add it to your existing Sky TV package via a 24-month contract (paid monthly) or a 31-day rolling contract (cancel any time).

For new customers or Sky customers without Sky TV, you can get a great package deal that provides everything you’d need. In this case, you’d want one that includes Sky Sports, but if you were looking to switch broadband providers as well, there are packages that put them all together.

Better yet, oftentimes you’ll find great deals on the Sky Sports packages, providing great value for money! Be sure to check out the Sky deals available here on Digital TV.

If you’re with a different TV provider, you may still be able to gain access to Sky TV, including Sky Sports.

Sky Sports on NOW TV

NOW TV offers a Sports Membership that gives you full access to Sky Sports for the duration of your membership.

With NOW TV, you can choose between the Day Membership and the Flexible Month Membership.

The Day Membership speaks for itself, granting access to the 12 Sky Sports channels for 24 hours as a one-off purchase.

The Flexible Month Membership is a 31-day rolling membership with no contract that allows you to cancel whenever you’d like.

Sky Sports on BT & Virgin Media

Both BT and Virgin Media have several packages that include Sky Sports or it can be added to a package.

For existing customers without it, you can also add it whenever you’d like on a 31-day rolling contract.

Ryder Cup 2025: Dates

The Ryder Cup 2025 will take place from Friday 26th - Sunday 28th September.

This is within the normal scope of when the Ryder Cup takes place, with each edition typically coming in either late September or early October.

Ryder Cup 2025: Venue

Credit: Every Hole at Bethpage Black with Strokes Gained Insights (Ryder Cup, YouTube)

It’s Team USA’s turn to host after Europe humiliated them in Italy two years ago. The sides have made their way stateside for this year's contest, where USA will be hoping to continue the current trend of home-team wins.

The venue which will become the battleground for the weekend will be Bethpage Black Course at Bethpage State Park on Long Island, New York.

Bethpage is renowned for its difficulty - Black Course, in particular, is the hardest of the five courses that make up the golfing section of Bethpage State Park. It has a warning sign at the first tee that has stood since the early 1980s that reads "WARNING The Black Course Is An Extremely Difficult Course Which We Recommend Only For Highly Skilled Golfers".

It isn’t foreign to hosting major PGA competitions, having previously held the 2002 US Open (won by Tiger Woods), the 2009 US Open (won by Lucas Glover), and most recently the 2019 PGA Championship (won by Brooks Koepka).

The course is 7401 yards in total, comprising four par-3 (two on each the front and back nine) and just two par-5s (one on each the front and back). The shortest hole is 161 yards, while the longest is a whopping 608 yards. To add to that, there are three par-4s that total over 500 yards, including two that are longer than one of the par-5s.

Ryder Cup 2025: Captains & teams

This year’s contest is being billed as one of the closest in a generation, and judging by the teams, you can see why many are saying so.

Team Europe

Luke Donald captains his second-straight Ryder Cup and has kept with largely the same formula, naming an almost entirely unchanged team from their 2023 triumph except for the one new inclusion of Rasmus Hojgaard, who funnily enough replaces his twin brother Nicolai.

Rory McIlroy will be the anchor player for the side, having finally completed his career grand slam when he claimed his green jacket at the Masters earlier this year.

Alongside him, the team will be hoping Tommy Fleetwood’s celebrations have subsided after he claimed his first PGA Tour win in style, taking the season-ending mega purse Tour Championship.

Ludvig Aberg’s inclusion in the 2023 edition was marked with some questions but turned out to be an inspired choice by Donald. He returns and will likely pair with his running mate from last time out, Viktor Hovland, a pairing which took down every opponent they faced in Italy.

The final player to point out is former world number one and 2023 Masters Champion Jon Rahm. The LIV golfer has failed to capture any silverware this year as part of the LIV Golf Tour and during the majors on the PGA Tour. However, he is always a threat when it comes to the Ryder Cup.

Captains

Luke Donald (C)
Thomas Bjorn (VC)
Alex Noren (VC)
Edoardo Molinari (VC)
Jose Maria Olazabal (VC)
Francesco Molinari (VC)

Players

Rory McIlroy
Robert MacIntyre
Tommy Fleetwood
Justin Rose
Rasmus Højgaard (R)
Tyrrell Hatton
Jon Rahm
Shane Lowry
Viktor Hovland
Sepp Straka
Ludvig Åberg
Matt Fitzpatrick

Team USA

Team USA will be coming with a largely more raw lineup, with four Ryder Cup rookies to Europe’s one.

One such rookie is JJ Spaun, who captured his first major title at the US Open, securing a spot in the team for this year. He also narrowly missed out on two further PGA Tour victories, losing out in playoffs at the Players Championship and the FedEx St. Jude Championship - both to two foes he’ll face in New York in McIlroy and Rose.

Bryson DeChambeau returns to the side having missed out in 2023. Since then, he has added a second US Open title to his tally in 2024 and came runner-up at the PGA Championship in two consecutive years.

But most importantly for Team USA, they have undoubtedly the best player in the world in prime condition and ready to go. The inevitable Scottie Scheffler had a contest to forget last time out in Italy, so if there’s one thing for sure, it’s that he’ll be back with a vengeance.

Captains

Keegan Bradley (C)
Webb Simpson (VC)
Brandt Snedeker (VC)
Kevin Kisner (VC)
Jim Furyk (VC)
Gary Woodland (VC)

Players

Scottie Scheffler
J.J. Spaun (R)
Xander Schauffele
Russell Henley (R)
Harris English
Bryson DeChambeau
Justin Thomas
Collin Morikawa
Patrick Cantlay
Ben Griffin (R)
Sam Burns
Cameron Young (R)

Ryder Cup 2025: Tee times & schedule

This year’s format will follow the same as every year, with the opening ceremony coming on Thursday, followed by two days of pairs competition, and ending with the singles matches on the Sunday.

The players have been getting the opportunity to practice before the festivities begin properly, which some see coming earlier than the opening ceremony thanks to the All-Star Match on Wednesday.

As for the order of play, as usual the hosts get to pick which way round they’d like the Friday and Saturday to go in terms of Foursomes play and Fourballs.

Quick Lesson

Fourballs and Foursomes and two different styles of paired contests. Each team will have pick four teams for each format to go head-to-head with the other side.

Foursomes (also called alternate shot): Each teams’ players use one ball between them, taking alternate shots. For example, Player A hits the tee shot, Player B hits the second, and so on until the hole is complete.
Fourballs: Each player plays their own ball throughout the hole. The team’s score is the better of the two players’ scores on that hole.

In short: Foursomes = one ball, alternate shots. Fourballs = two balls, best score counts.

In total, there will be 28 matches across the weekend, with eight each on Friday and Saturday split into four morning matches and four afternoon matches, ending with all 24 competitors going head-to-head in 12 singles contests on Sunday.

Here is the full schedule for the weekend, with times shown as local then UK time in brackets. Thankfully for us on this side of the pond, the timings work out fairly nicely, with the latest match on the Sunday likely to go the latest as it will start at 7pm our time.

Friday 26th - Morning Foursomes

7:10am (12:10pm) - Match 1
7:26am (12:26pm) - Match 2
7:42am (12:42pm) - Match 3
7:58am (12:58pm) - Match 4

Friday 26th - Afternoon Fourballs

12:25pm (5:25pm) - Match 5
12:41pm (5:41pm) - Match 6
12:57pm (5:57pm) - Match 7
1:13pm (6:13pm) - Match 8

Saturday 27th - Morning Foursomes

7:10am (12:10pm) - Match 9
7:26am (12:26pm) - Match 10
7:42am (12:42pm) - Match 11
7:58am (12:58pm) - Match 12

Saturday 27th - Afternoon Fourballs

12:25pm (5:25pm) - Match 13
12:41pm (5:41pm) - Match 14
12:57pm (5:57pm) - Match 15
1:13pm (6:13pm) - Match 16

Sunday 28th - Singles

12:02pm (5:02pm) - Match 17
12:13pm (5:13pm) - Match 18
12:24pm (5:24pm) - Match 19
12:35pm (5:35pm) - Match 20
12:46pm (5:46pm) - Match 21
12:57pm (5:57pm) - Match 22
1:08pm (6:08pm) - Match 23
1:19pm (6:19pm) - Match 24
1:30pm (6:30pm) - Match 25
1:41pm (6:41pm) - Match 26
1:52pm (6:52pm) - Match 27
2:03pm (7:03pm) - Match 28

Please note that these times are subject to change on the day.

History of the Ryder Cup

Credit: Top 9 Moments in Ryder Cup History (Ryder Cup, YouTube)

The Ryder Cup was established 98 years ago in 1927, but the first recognised edition of a Ryder Cup-style contest came in 1921, where a team of 10 Americans were defeated nine matches to three by the hosting Great Britain team.

The idea of the matchup came in 1920, when the publication Golf Illustrated wrote a letter to the Professional Golfers’ Association of America, suggesting a dozen or so American professionals should be funded to compete in the 1921 Open Championship, since up to that point no American had won the competition.

Setting sail on 24th May 1921, the match between American and Great Britain professionals came to fruition on Monday 6th June 1921, the day before the start of the 1000 Guinea Tournament. It was played at Gleneagles in Scotland.

The first time the term “Ryder Cup” was used was in 1926, when 10 American pros picked by golfing legend Walter Hagen played against 10 of Great Britain’s finest. Once more, the visitors were taken down 13-1, although the legitimacy of this contest is disputed as Hagen had picked the team, not the American PGA, and contained a number of players from outside of the US.

1927 marks the first official running of the Ryder Cup, with a “Deed of Trust” drawn up to formalise the rules for the contest.

Each PGA organisation then had a selection process and Golf Illustrated launched a fund to raise the £3000 needed to send professional golfers from Great Britain to compete in the US Open and the first official Ryder Cup contest, which was being held in Worcester, Massachusetts. Team US claimed the first official victory, winning 9½ to 2½.

While it was originally proposed to be a yearly contest, it was deemed impractical due to the costs at the time. The second contest was scheduled for 1929, and ever since the Ryder Cup has taken place every two years.

Until 1977, the Ryder Cup was contested between team USA and Team Great Britain and Ireland. For the 1979 contest, talks between American and golfing icon Jack Nicklaus and Edward Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby serving as the president of the PGA, led to them deciding to allow continental European players to join team GB and Ireland to make team Europe.

The move was to counter USA’s dominance, as up to that point Great Britain and Ireland had only three wins to USA’s 18 (although it still wasn’t until 1985 that team Europe would claim their first victory.

Since the first official edition in 1927, there has only been three occasions when the tournament was either cancelled or postponed - the first was between 1939 - 1945 due to World War II, the second was 11th September attacks in 2001 (moved to 2002), and the final time in 2020 due to COVID-19 (moved to 2021).