The best part of the United States’ 2023 Ryder Cup group has been solidified. The standings are actually company following the realization of the 2023 BMW Championship, which marked the top of the qualifying length for the American facet. It will now be incumbent on captain Zach Johnson to fill out the remainder of the 12-man U.S. group with six captain’s selections, all of which can come following the 2023 Tour Championship.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler leads the U.S. Ryder Cup standings having leapt the sphere together with his 27,617.735 issues greater than double that of Wyndham Clark (13,738.920). The next-most outstanding identify within the standings is Patrick Cantlay, the second-ranked American within the Official World Golf Rankings who holds the similar total spot there as he does within the Ryder Cup standings: fourth.
Let’s check out the six automatic qualifiers at the United States facet.
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1 |
Scottie Scheffler - Advertisement -
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27,617.735 |
1 |
2-0-1 |
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2 - Advertisement -
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Wyndham Clark |
13,738.920 |
11 |
— |
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3 |
Brian Harman |
11,100.539 |
8 |
— |
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4 |
Patrick Cantlay |
10,946.750 |
4 |
3-0-1 |
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5 |
Max Homa |
9,638.764 |
7 |
— |
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6 |
Xander Schauffele |
9,450.269 |
6 |
3-1-0 |
Clark, Brian Harman — each main championship winners this season — and Max Homa will all be freshmen representing America in Rome subsequent month. Homa performed his ay into the highest six following sturdy appearances at each the St. Jude Championship and the BMW Championship to leap within the best six.
“That’s been kind of my goal since these playoffs started, to get into that top six,” Homa stated on the BMW Championship. “All that obviously takes some great golf. You’re playing against a lot of great players. It has been fun keeping that goal in mind because you’re competing against the best Americans, which is a tall task.”
Cantlay and Schauffele constitute probably the most dependable qualifiers at the United States facet as opposed to Scheffler. Lethal in combination in foursomes, the 2 will embark on their moment Ryder Cups after making their debuts at Whistling Straits in 2021.
“You don’t really want to sit around and wait for the phone call,” stated Schauffele. “Been on both sides of it, to be completely honest, for a Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup team. I can’t remember which one was a pick, which one was not. But I remember getting a call saying no and a call saying yes. It’s nice to automatically qualify.”
Who would be the six captain’s selections?
Two essential pieces to believe when taking a look the second one part of the U.S. group: (1) There are 3 freshmen already within the box and (2) not one of the six automatic qualifiers has participated in a Ryder Cup on European soil. This may impact Johnson’s six captain’s selections from a muddied pool of avid gamers.
Schauffele’s sturdy time out on the BMW Championship noticed him climb within the automatic qualifying vary on the eleventh hour and knock out PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka. As a member of LIV Golf, Koepka handiest had 4 alternatives to garner issues against qualification this season and has dropped within the ratings since elevating the Wanamaker Trophy at Oak Hill in May.
Koepka (No. 7 in standings | 6-5-1 Ryder Cup document) is regarded as a certain select as are Ryder Cup stalwart Jordan Spieth (No. 8 | 8-7-3) and a resurgent Rickie Fowler (No. 13 | 3-7-5). Spieth narrowly made his approach into the Tour Championship completing the week at Olympia Fields twenty ninth within the FedEx Cup and Fowler continues to flash spectacular shape. Once you glance previous those 3 veterans, the choices handiest grow to be tougher.
Johnson could have to make a choice from younger weapons like reigning PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Cameron Young (No. 9), WGC-Match Play winner Sam Burns (No. 12) and two-time main champion Collin Morikawa (No. 10 | 3-0-1).
On the opposite facet of the age spectrum, Lucas Glover (No. 16) is taken with making his first Ryder Cup group on the age of 43 after profitable the Wyndham Championship and the St. Jude Championship in back-to-back weeks.
Keegan Bradley (No. 11 | 4-3-0) has notched two wins this season, as has Tony Finau (No. 21 | 3-3-0), and all of that is prior to we get to the elephant within the room: Justin Thomas (No. 15 | 6-2-1). Missing the postseason fully, Thomas should depend on his frame of labor as a way to garner a captain’s select as his group document stands at 16-5-3 (together with Presidents Cup efforts).