For the weekend of the Ryder Cup, we have been tracking how much interaction on social media each player has been getting during the course of their games.
We recreated each matchup in the foursome, fourballs and singles matches and gave a point to whichever side generated the most traffic.
During this exercise, the analysts at HP Explore, who were tracking the data for us said that:
They registered 1,592,516 total tweets.
Of those, 584,858 were linked to One Direction.
Yessss! Get in ! Rosey and Stenson get the first point on the board for @rydercupEUROPE ! Rock solid golf all day !
— Niall Horan (@NiallOfficial) September 26, 2014
As would be expected from the past two days results, Europe came out ahead on the social media stakes by quite some margin. For the final results look at the graphic and scores below. You can also look at what happened on day one and day two.
Graeme McDowell (34,474) beat Jordan Spieth (3,286) (Europe +1)
Patrick Reed (10,554) beat Henrik Stenson (5,110) (USA +1)
Rory McIlory (26,556) beat Rickie Fowler (6,472) (Europe +1)
Justin Rose (4,534) beat Hunter Mahan (2,232) (Europe +1)
Phil Mickelson (1,360) beat Stephen Gallacher (993) (USA +1)
Martin Kaymer (3,842) beat Bubba Watson (2,228) (Europe +1)
Matt Kuchar (616) beat Thomas Bjorn (361) (USA+1)
Sergio Garcia (4,681) beat Jim Furyk (1,407) (Europe +1)
Ian Poulter (7,791) beat Webb Simpson (812) (Europe +1)
Jamie Donaldson (13,403) beat Keegan Bradley (2,197) (Europe +1)
Jimmy Walker (591) beat Lee Westwood (503) (USA +1)
Victor Dubuisson (2,753) beat Zach Johnson (831) (Europe +1)
