Atlanta, GA – has a general understanding that the European team of this year’s Ryder Cup is 92 percent full, that 11 of the 12 members can book their flights to New York for the last week of September.
It is the 12th place that is getting strange.
They are popular faces, first 11. They were all in the winning team of 2023, which is extraordinary in itself; They will offer the European team a level of continuity that almost never happens from one team to another. Two years is a long time in any sport, especially a high -scale sport as unstable as that of golf. But when you read their names below you are betting you will shake your head and think about yourself Yes, that seems right.
Rory Mcilroy
Tommy Fleetwood
Ion Rahm
Ludwig aberg
Robert Macintre
Tyrrell Hatton
Sepp Straka
Victor Hovland
Justin Rose
Shane Lowry
Matt Fitzpatrick
Strong list, right? One of the biggest points of question in the middle of summer, Justin Rose, won in Memfis to make a qualifying automatic place. Two boys whose games had lost, Victor Hovland and Matt Fitzpatrick, have rounded up. Everyone else is simply fit, which means returning Captain Luke Donald’s work look relatively simple.
But after trying to choose no. 12, things become really interesting.
If you see advanced Datagolf metric obtained from the shock or more traditional The official golf ranking in the worldThe two most likely elections in the form would be the English Aaron Rai and Harry Hall. Hall looks like the strongest choice between the two; He has not lost a cut since the players, he has finished T28 or rather in 11 in a row, he makes as many birds as Like anyone in PGA Tour (4.54 for Round, T1 with Scottie Scheffler) and he is probably hot in the world. While Rai lost to the best interruption of the tournament after the first round of FedEx Cup’s play off, Hall has done it up to the tour championship. He is the only European in the Ryder Cup bubble to do so. How could you leave it out of the team?
Sign in to Rasmus Hojgaard.
Based on the way he finished the 2024 season in Europe-winning Irish Open, ending second at the Tour World Championship, winning the high place of PGA Tour-Hoyaard qualified in the Points race. He felt that he and his twin brother Nicolai (12th member of this 2023 team) would be in the photo for the European team in Bethpage.
But the talented Dane faded from the conversation as this summer was wearing, going 13 weeks without a 20 individual ball. Nicolai’s game was also uneven. Both twins proved well in the open, but faded at T14 and T16 over the weekend, not enough to keep them not missing the FedEx Cup’s Play off-cut line. (Nicolai completed No. 73, Rasmus ended No. 85.)
Rangeuddistically, this may have worked on his advantage.
Rasmus was still being caught in the place of number 8 in the Ryder Cup ranking, after all – and the first six are automatically entered. The twins took a week off and then went home to play their national opens, the Danish championship, which, fundamentally, was still offering European Ryder Cup points. (If you are an American and you miss FedEx Cup’s Play off, there is nowhere left for you to win points.) So when Rasmus ended the second (in a wild wild round that presented two eagles, three birds, three bogeys and one doubles) he moved within the NOS screaming distance. 7 (Straka), 6 (Lowry) and even 5 (Hatton). Here’s how the points stand now:
4. Rose 1545.72
5. Hatton 1279.33
6. Lowry 1275.51
7. Straka 1264.27
8. R. Hoygaard 1261.91
9. Aberg 1140.44
What will those points say? In short they mean Rasmus is just a good finish away from the first six cracked. Data Whiz Nosphere first calculated This with a two -way T29 or better in British Betfred Masters this week, Rasmus would hit the first six. He would even move to no. 5 with a 20 ball, starting from the six best in the meantime.
This is where things really become weird: the Tour champion offers no Ryder Cup point. So, though Harry Hall can use East Lake as a final audition, it cannot improve its attitude. And other possible competitors in Betfred British Masters – Think Matt Wallace (11, 869.59 PTS), Marco Penge (14, 761.63 pcs), Aaron Rai (15, 743.31 pcs), Nicolai Hojgaard (25, 550.86 pcs) – are far from hitting six more.
So far, so good for Rasmus: he shot a three-nine-opening randan to lower T11 on cameras. It should be a strange feeling, knowing that you are the only one who plays for the point that can actually make changes, especially when you have danced tournaments to adopt them. Now it’s simple now: he needs a Top-30 finish to win a place in the Ryder Cup team. Wrap off the top 30, on the other hand? He will still sit in eighth place in the standings, but risks passing for a hottest hand.
How much for trouble? Last week he said he would barely be in touch with anyone on the European side, suggesting he was out of their radar. But another high conclusion can make him threaten Rasmus’s place – or force a fierce conversation about one of Europe’s most determined stars.
To subtract it down: If Ramus Hojgaard finishes two -way T29 or better on British Betfred masters, he will be in the Ryder Cup team. If not? Your assumption is as good as mine.
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