Are Americans trending after opening?

Oh, how the tables return.

In the middle of April, when Rory Mcilroy won mastersThe nightmare of the US Ryder Cup seemed to be in full move. Through the first stanza of the big calendar, the euro had kidnapped the season from Horns, with the three victories of Mcilroy full victories by Ludwig Aberg and Viktor Hovland – and arrived in the foreground of Jon Rahm’s continued game of Livi of Jon Rahm. Americans, meanwhile, were just fighting to remove it. Scottie Scheffler is grinding his way from Surgery of hand surprise In January, providing his first gaze in life as a simple golf death. Xander Schauffle was grinding his The way to return from a strain of international muscles that would last for much of 2025. And Jordan Spieth was healing from the ankle surgery that seemed to be predestined by a low career point.

Three months later, American internet concerns Cognoscenti seem to have calmed down … at the moment. The US list is suddenly lit with shape and health, and Americans are winning the last three diplomas of the year. Scheffler in the specific is reappeared as a force, entering the house stretch explosion in Royal Portrush.

But Americans are not the only ones with advantage. The euro have seen a recent revival of talent and return to Bethpage with the list significantly deeper than 2023 in Rome (when you can remember, they explode doors from Zach Johnson in the US).

With the opening of the road and the golf world was finally drawing its attention to Bethpage, let’s get players’ reserves on both sides of the book, starting with the largest member of the local team.

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Blue blood

Scottie Scheffler: Stock Up

Gaining two diplomas in one year, taking three quarters of the Grand Slam career on the career, and generally providing golf with the closest comparison with Tiger Woods of the last three decades? Yes, I would say that Scottie Scheffler has had a good year.

He has not played well in the game events historically, but I don’t think it matters. He is much better than anyone else who will be a great advantage for Americans. And if his FDNY jacket appearance at Open was an indication, he will know how to try for Long Island’s believers as well.

Rory Mcilroy: Neutral Stock

There is a clear best player in the world. There is also a better second. His name is Rory Mcilroy, and his performance under the spotlight in his open home indicates how much his game is ripe and hardened with age.

Mcilroy and Scheffler have been the main characters of the year in Golf, and stopping some kind of injury, the same will be true for the Ryder Cup. Anyone who expects Mcilroy to repeat the failures of Ryder Cup of his youth in Bethpage will be very mistaken.

Jon Rahm: Neutral Stock

A big little disappointing season for Rahm includes a better 10 pair and a bunch of other really good rounds. In other words, he is a lock to be one of the most valuable players on the European side.

Xander Schauffle: Stock Up

If Xander Schauffle was not one of the most underestimated players of this generation, he may have been open, giving fans abundant reason to allocate after winning two degrees in 2024.

Fortunately, Schauffle is one of the most underestimated players of this generation, and he played in the open, grinding a T7 finish to end a great disappointing season in a strong note. The mistake of injury was not his friend in ’25, but his game was directed in the right direction for Bethpage.

(One aside: 293-Oborre 2-Iz that I saw it struck from the approximate left in the 7th hole during the Wednesday practice round in Portrush will live in my memory forever.)

Bryson Dechambeau: Shares actually are flood insurance

Dechambeau was in full form of Sunday in Open when you spoke – with a very serious tone to be honest – for “for”tsunami of a crowd“He hoped to bring to Bethpage.

He was obviously hindering him, but I actually impressed me another response he gave earlier at the press conference for his growth over the last half decade as a teammate. Bryson is a total wild card on Ryder Cup, but I think he is a much better adaptation to the environment than he allows.

Patrick Cantlay: Stock Down

It was a year down on the Cantlay Majes, who lost three cuts and generally tried to insert it into the outfit when the lights were brighter. He enters the Ryder Cup season in the 23rd rankings in the world, 19 lower points than when he arrived in Rome in 2023 as an American game killer.

He is still likely to make the list list (his aforementioned record of the match is inaccessible, and he has played well-off in PGA Tour this year), but Cantlay did not do much to help himself during the greats. He has opened a window of uncertainty.

Victor Hovland: Are you helping the stock advice from Reddit

Hovland was the third leader of a three-headed European monster in Rome in 2023. Now, with the approaching September, it is difficult to understand where his game is-not less than he is spending part of his time in the tournament in the middle of the week in World Heritage Sites and thinking of the existence of Aliens.

Is he the boy who ended the third in the US Open? Possible! Is he the boy who will die from travelers next week with a mysterious injury? Obviously possible! Is he the boy who lost four cuts in five weeks to start the season? Still possible! Pointe, I think, is that Victor is a golf player with an open mind … and sometimes maybe perhaps LOT Step.

Anyone version arrives at Bethpage, knows that he will have done his study.

The boys you know

KEEGAN BRADLEY: Neutral stock

A T30 conclusion in the open championship did nothing to influence Bradley’s chances to serve as playing captain on this team Ryder Cup.

Matt Fitzpatrick: Stock Up

The last major of the year can be a player for a player in Ryder Cup’s bubble, and this year, no player in the bubble benefited more than Fitzy.

Of course, T4 was not what he hoped when he did in the latest pairing on Saturday, but Fitzpatrick showed shape this weekend much closer to the Golf event that won 2022 US Open than we saw at some time. It was good for his Ryder Cup chances, yes, but also just good to see: Fitzpatrick is one of the good speakers of good golf when he is playing well.

Collin Morikawa: Stock Down

It has been a strange year for Morikawa, the battles of relations with the public outside the ropes are in the overshadows of its wars within them, including numerous caddy changes and the extension of a long beam without a victory.

The good news is that his golf still leads one of the top 10 living players as clearly, the bad news is that his consistency does not. He is the player on the US side with the most to win from a strong show in Bethpage, assuming he is chosen for the team (and we are assuming he will be, even after a seven-open end).

Jordan Spieth: Stock Down

Spieth did nothing very visible in the portrait, except to talk about Scottie Scheffler. Of course, this is part of the problem: he has not played significantly good golf throughout the season.

There is still hope that Spieth, the 26th in Ryder Cup’s ranking, will turn on during the FedEx Cup Play off to go down the team, but is shrinking.

Justin Thomas: Stock Up

I’m not sure JT would call his season a “good story”, but I would argue that it is. Easy is easy to forget now that Thomas passed the open championship two years ago, dismissing the depths of his pro career, scraping through the 3M Open and Wynham championship for a chance on the American team in Rome. He returned to the form of Justin Thomas in 2025, and although this has not scored a lot of wins, a 7th place country in the ranking is good enough to ensure that he will be in Bethpage.

Hopes

Chris Gotterup: Stock Up

A Southern New Jersey boy through and through (read: Porrkroll, Not Taylor Ham), Chris Gotterup chose a hell for a few weeks to play the best golf of his life. A win in Scottish Open and a T3 in Open make it suddenly shouting in position for a place on the American list where he would be the closest thing a child of his hometown.

Bob Macintyre: Stock Up

Depending on your list arithmetic, Bobby was either the last or the penultimate choice to make it on the European list in 2023. He is second in Ryder Cup’s current ranking after strong ends in each of his last two beginnings.

Macintyre has shown some serious gums as a player in the last 24 months, and when he is wearing blue and gold in Bethpage in September, it will not be difficult to understand why.

LUDVIG ABERG: Buy low

It was an annoying year for those on the Ludwig train: a career -changing victory at the February Generals in February, followed by a gang of quiet months. The good news? A sneaky end of the top-25 in Open e has it as ideal Sleep candidate heading towards autumn.