Zach Johnson believes the Americans can still win the Ryder Cup. Does anyone believe him?

'Our time's coming,' Johnson insisted after the Americans did not win a match in the first day of the Ryder Cup.

European players bounced around, watching the day’s final matches end, arms slung over shoulders. Belly laughs. Smiles. Interviews. Joyous wives high-fiving one other. Twenty yards away or so, American players lingered in place, hands stuffed in pockets, chatting close, voices down. The scene was that of a celebratory Sunday.The long-awaited opening day of the 2023 Ryder Cup was, for the defending Cup-holding United States team, a swift, runaway, unequivocal disaster.

Chalk it up to the Americans coming up distressingly small — bad pairings, bad play, bad everything — and battling an illness being passed around the team room. Well, if it is, it better be Saturday morning. Because the Americans now know what it feels like for everything to go as bad as possible, as fast as possible.

The first three matches on the course felt unwinnable by midmorning with European teams of Rahm/Hatton, Hovland/Åberg and Shane Lowry/Sepp Straka jumping out to healthy leads against struggling American partnerships. There existed a modicum of hope for the premier U.S. pairing of Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay, but even the most reliable American duo was awry. Cantlay hit a tee shot into the middle of a lake on No. 8.

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