His performance in a losing cause at the 2018 event in France made him undroppable for Rome, despite a disappointing 2022/23 season.at Le Golf National, once in foursomes and again in singles, to emerge from USA's defeat as his team's best player by some distance.chugging beersThomas admits the biennial event brings out a different side to him, using his relationship with McIlroy - and his wife Jill - as examples.
"Rory is a great example. I love Rory. We get along extremely well. He's been a role model of mine. He was super nice to me when I was first starting up. He still is. We see each other a bunch. "Yeah, we played each other in the Ryder Cup and, yeah, we hated each other for 18 holes. Again, it's nothing personal. It's not a dislike as a person.
"My wife knows; if Jill teed it up in the Ryder Cup for the other team, I'm going to try to beat her pretty bad."