The 40th Ryder Cup matches were held 26–28 September 2014 in Scotland on the PGA Centenary Course at the Gleneagles Hotel near Auchterarder in Perth & Kinross.

The Gleneagles Hotel, located one hour outside of Edinburgh and set in grounds of 850 acres (340 ha; 1.33 sq mi), had undergone a major redevelopment programme, partly in preparation for the 2014 Ryder Cup.

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Sky Sports provided live coverage, with the BBC showing highlights each evening on free-to-air television.

Curt Byrum and Tom Abbott served as hole announcers and Jerry Foltz was an on-course commentator.

For the afternoon sessions and the singles matches on Sunday, the regular NBC golf crew provided coverage.

Dan Hicks and Johnny Miller hosted from the 18th tower, with Gary Koch and Peter Jacobsen as hole announcers.

On the weekend, Colin Montgomerie appeared as a guest commentator to lend a European perspective, a role he previously filled for NBC in 2012.

In the European points list, Donaldson had overtaken García by winning the penultimate qualifying event (the D+D Real Czech Masters) and since neither García nor Bjørn played in the final event (the Italian Open) and since no other player could pass Donaldson, he was assured of his place before the Italian Open.

The leading four players in the World points list (García, Rose, Kaymer and Bjørn) had qualified before the final event (the Italian Open).

In late July Dustin Johnson announced that he was taking a leave of absence from golf and would miss the Ryder Cup.

Source:[13] In mid-August Tiger Woods announced that he would not be able to play in the 2014 Ryder Cup because of back problems and would therefore not be one of Watson's three captain's picks.

[21][22] In September 2014, McGinley then announced that Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Pádraig Harrington and José María Olazábal would also join his backroom team, making five vice-captains in total.

[23] Captains picks are shown in yellow; the world rankings and records are at the start of the 2014 Ryder Cup.

Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed, the youngest American pairing in the history of the competition, defeated Ian Poulter and Stephen Gallacher 5 & 4.

Gene Wojciechowski, a columnist for ESPN, criticized American captain Tom Watson for not playing Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed in the afternoon after they had won their morning match 5 & 4.

[31] The European pairing of Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson led off and won their third straight match in two days.

[32] For the second straight day, Europe earned 31⁄2 points in the afternoon foursomes, increasing their lead to 4 going into the singles matches.