As the 2025 Ryder Cup quickly approaches, several crucial decisions need to be made over the coming days – the biggest of which, from a European point of view, relates to which six players will be picked to defend their title.
While they had home advantage behind them at Marco Simone back in 2023, an away trip to Bethpage Black represents one of the toughest tasks open to Team Europe. The prize, should they manage to do it, is a first away victory since 2012 for either team and another two years clutching on to the little gold trophy.
Half of Luke Donald’s roster is already locked in place following Rasmus Hojgaard’s successful outright qualification at the Betfred British Masters. But by doing so, the Dane ensured his twin brother was not guaranteed another stint on Team Europe while also preventing several high-quality players from sealing their own fate.
Ahead of Donald unveiling his six wildcards picks, European fans know Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre, Justin Rose and Tyrrell Hatton will join Rasmus Hojgaard in New York between September 26-28.
But what about the remaining names? Who is likely to be picked among the captain’s six and who could miss out? We’ve listed the contenders below.
Jon Rahm
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Jon Rahm is 99.99% guaranteed to be at the 2025 Ryder Cup, despite ending 24th in the European Ryder Cup rankings.
His lowly position was exclusively down to a lack of starts in DP World Tour events, with another excellent season in the LIV Golf League not helping his automatic qualification hopes.
Nevertheless, Rahm will be picked by Luke Donald after the Spaniard wrapped up the Individual Championship for the second year in a row and was only outside of the top-10 once all season.
Add into that his much-improved performances at the Majors in 2025 and a total of 7.5 points from three Ryder Cup appearances – two of which were wins – and Rahm is an absolute lock to be picked by Donald.
Shane Lowry
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Shane Lowry missed out on automatically qualifying for the European Ryder Cup team by less than four points to Tyrrell Hatton, but the Irishman is another who was always likely to be one of Luke Donald’s 12 as long as he finished somewhere inside the top-10.
Lowry’s overall record at the Ryder…
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