Superfans at the 2025 Ryder Cup - Sports Illustrated Photos

The 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black attracted fans of all stripes. Here are some of SI's favorite photos.

Jeff Ritter | Sep 27, 2025

Star-spangled pride was everywhere at Bethpage Black. / Jeff Ritter/Sports Illustrated

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — After more than a decade of buildup, the 45th Ryder Cup landed at Bethpage Black, and fans from both the U.S. and European teams were ready for the ocassion. Sports Illustrated was on site all week, and we snapped a few pics while wading in among the masses.

This group was squarely behind Sweden's Ludvig Åberg. / Jeff Ritter/Sports Illustrated

After their day at Bethpage, these fans presumably went out and crossed the Delaware. / Jeff Ritter/Sports Illustrated

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More European superfans. / Jeff Ritter/Sports Illustrated

These fans are from Minnesota, and fondly remeber the U.S. win at Hazeltine in 2016. / Jeff Ritter/Sports Illustrated

The U.S. may need a Sunday rally befitting of these 1999-themed polos, a nod to the stunning U.S. comeback at Brookline. / Jeff Ritter/Sports Illustrated

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Published Sep 27, 2025|Modified Sep 27, 2025

JEFF RITTER

Jeff Ritter is the managing director of SI Golf. He has more than 20 years of sports media experience, and previously was the general manager at the Morning Read, where he led that business's growth and joined SI as part of an acquisition in 2022. Earlier in his career he spent more than a decade at SI and Golf Magazine, and his journalism awards include a MIN Magazine Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a master's from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.