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Rory McIlroy, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Viktor Hovland. All three are in Rome this week for the DS Automobiles Italian Open, and all three will, almost certainly, return to Marco Simone for next year’s Ryder Cup.
That week, Luke Donald’s European team will look rather different to that of the 2021 team that got savaged in Whistling Straits. Five of that squad have since made the switch to LIV Golf and will most likely never pull on the European colours in a Ryder Cup again.
While it leaves spaces to be filled in the team, those who haven’t completely blocked out the memory of 2021 will agree that isn’t the worst thing.
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Donald and his vice captains may well look to others playing this week in Italy to fill the empty berths and if they want to build for the future, two of those names should be pencilled in rather firmly already.
Rasmus and Nicolai Højgaard are both in the field this week, and both represent the best of European golf. The 21-year-old twins are both prodigiously long from the tee, have multiple DP World Tour wins to their name, and might just make a formidable matchplay pairing.
Speaking to bunkered earlier in the year, Rasmus, the…
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