Dustin Johnson fires Ryder Cup warning: ‘I feel bad for anyone who plays me and Brooks Koepka’

In what can be interpreted as the first sly shot fired in the build-up to the 2018 Ryder Cup, world No 1 Dustin Johnson has extended his sympathy to any European pairing unfortunate enough to face him and Brooks Koepka in the match in Paris in four weeks’ time. It appears inevitable that Jim Furyk, the United States captain, will team up the big-hitting friends and ­Johnson, who usually lets his clubs do the talking, clearly feels that would spell certain defeat for the duo in the blue-and-gold corner. Rory McIlroy might disagree.