LIV Golf’s Bryson DeChambeau joined PGA Tour gamers Russell Henley and Harris English in qualifying for US Ryder Cup workforce spots after Sunday’s BMW Championship, the final US factors occasion.
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World primary Scottie Scheffler, a two-time Masters champion who gained this 12 months’s British Open and PGA Championship, US Open winner J.J. Spaun and two-time main winner Xander Schauffele had already clinched berths primarily based on accrued qualifying factors.
US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley will announce his six captain’s picks to finish the squad on August 27, with a significant query being whether or not or not he’ll choose himself to play in opposition to Europe at Bethpage Black subsequent month.
“I’ve been saying all 12 months, you’ll be able to’t anticipate to be on the workforce except you’re within the high six,” mentioned Bradley.
“My objective is to go on the market, whether or not I used to be Ryder Cup captain or not this week, and play properly and play properly subsequent week on the Tour Championship as properly.
“There’s undoubtedly much more on my plate right here these subsequent couple of weeks. The Ryder Cup has all the time been so distant, and now it’s proper there. Issues are undoubtedly amping up. I nonetheless have quite a bit to show simply in addition to everybody round me on the checklist.”
Ought to Bradley choose himself, he may very well be the primary workforce captain to additionally play since Arnold Palmer in 1963.
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Alternatively, he might decide to play for the Individuals and let one in all his vice-captains take over extra of these obligations.
Together with himself, Justin Thomas (No.7), Collin Morikawa (No.8), Ben Griffin (No.9), Maverick McNealy (No.11) and Andrew Novak (No.12) are a few of main names Bradley might think about for the captain’s picks.
After all, it was simply two years in the past that Bradley (ranked eleventh within the standings) was missed in favour of Thomas in a transfer that sparked debate over the US ‘boys membership’.
Bradley was then picked as America’s subsequent captain final 12 months in a shock twist and now with Thomas at seventh, he can have no selection however to choose the person on the centre of the earlier choice controversy.
As for these locked into qualification, Scheffler, who gained his fifth title of the 12 months Sunday on the BMW, is 2-2-3 in Ryder Cup matches.
Spaun and Henley can be making their Ryder Cup debuts.
Schauffele, final 12 months’s British Open and PGA Championship winner, is 4-4-0 in two prior Ryder Cups whereas English was 1-2-0 on the triumphant US workforce in 2021 at Whistling Straits.
DeChambeau, a two-time US Open champion, gained this 12 months’s LIV Golf Korea title and has a 2-3-1 Ryder Cup document.