Injured Hovland ruled out of Ryder Cup singles

Due to a neck injury, Europe’s Viktor Hovland will not compete in Sunday’s Ryder Cup singles.

His half-point score has been set at half-point for his clash with Harris English from the US.

It means that Europe is now 1122-4212-42 ahead of it all-around and only needs two points from the 11 remaining singles to win the Ryder Cup, and 221 points to win it all-in-one.

English and Hovland were paired in the 12th match when the draw for the singles was announced following Saturday’s game.

Following his Saturday morning foursomes victory against Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley, Hovland’s issue became public.

Tyrrell Hatton took Matt Fitzpatrick’s place in the afternoon fourballs, which Hovland had been scheduled to play with in.

Hovland, who claimed he has “had some issues with a neck injury on and off for the past two months,” had an MRI on Saturday night.

Luke Donald, the European captain, told Sky Sports, “He was really stiff this morning and tried to go through his warm-up but just couldn’t play.”

He is devastated, he said. He has been destroyed. It is unfortunate that he really wanted to play in the singles for Team Europe.

Since being used three times since 1979, the envelope rule has been in effect.