US Open Winner JJ Spaun and two-time main champion Xander Schauffele will be part of the US staff’s world primary golfer Scotty Schauffele as they make their look in Europe on the Ryder Cup subsequent month.
Spaun moved to second place within the US Group Factors rating and competed for the staff within the third place end of the season on the Fedex St. Jude Championship on Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee. He’ll change into a Ryder Cup rookie.
Spaun ranks eighth within the official world golf rankings, shedding to England’s Justin Rose on the third gap within the playoffs of a sudden demise at TPC Southwind within the first leg of FedEx Cup Playoffs.
Rose and England’s Tommy Fleetwood have secured sufficient factors to affix European staff Masters champion Rory McIlroy.
Spaun, 34, gained his first main championship on June 15 when he made a 64½-foot birdie putt on the 72-foot gap on the Oakmont Nation Membership’s US Open.
Schaufele gained his first two majors on the 2024 PGA Championship and Open Championship, and was late originally of this season as a result of a painful rib damage. He has not gained this yr and has three prime 10 and 9 prime 25 within the 14 begin of the tour.
Ranked third on the planet, Schauferle might be showing within the Ryder Cup for 3 consecutive occasions. He has a 4-4-0 report on the occasion. This contains the 1-3 mark in 2023 with a lack of 16½-11½ for Europeans at Marco Simone Golf Membership within the Roman suburbs.
The Golfers ranked 4th to sixth in US Factors rankings on the BMW Championship this week on the Kakis Valley Golf Membership in Owens Mills, Maryland.
Russell Henry, Liv Golf League captain Bryson Deccanbeau and Harris English are within the prime six factors.
US staff captain Keegan Bradley will make the captain’s alternative on August twenty seventh, three days after the tour championship at East Lake Golf Membership in Atlanta.
Justin Thomas is seventh in factors, adopted by Morikawa, Ben Griffin, Bradley, Maverick McNerry and Andrew Novak.
Brian Herman (thirteenth), Cameron Younger (14th), Patrick Cantray (fifteenth), and Sam Burns (sixteenth) are in all probability additionally within the mixture of roster spots.
The highest six golfers within the European staff’s level rankings might be certified for the staff on August twenty fourth. McIlroy, Rose and Fleetwood certified with factors, whereas Robert Macintyre, Tyrrell Hatton and Sepp Straka closed out their present prime six.
Shane Raleigh, Rasmus Hodzigard, Ludwig Åberg and Victor Hofland conclude the highest 10, and if they do not win one of many computerized berths they’re going to appear to be the captain’s choose form.
Liv Golf League captain Jon Rahm will type the staff on the twenty second. Because of this Matt Wallace, Matt Fitzpatrick, Thomas Detry and Aaron Rai could also be combating in a single or two spots.
