The Ryder Cup is a team game settled by individual performances, but which one of the 24 superstar golfers on show will finish as top points scorers?
There’s actually a number of betting markets to shoot at where you can pick out the top points scorers for both Team USA and Europe, along with odds on who will be the top-scoring rookie and best of the 12 wildcard picks.
Luke Donald and Keegan Bradley have big decisions to make on who to play and when, but there are some stats and trends to follow that can help us to try and figure out who will play the most.
As obviously the more you play the more points you can pick up, but who are the leading fancies to put points on the board at Bethpage Black?
Europeans dominate top points scorer stats
History tells us that you should really back a European player in the overall top points scorer market – as just one American in the last 13 Ryder Cups has finished as outright top scorer.
That was Dustin Johnson in 2021, with the previous being Corey Pavin in 1995! And overall the USA has only won this market in four of the 22 meetings since Europe joined in 1979.
And with three ties between the sides that means the Europeans have had the top scorer 15 times, with five in the last six showing that even in the modern event with huge home advantage it doesn’t translate into success in this market.
Top overall Ryder Cup points scorer tips
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First off – judging candidates to play all five matches. Only Justin Thomas has done it on the USA team but with the make-up of their team this year Scottie Scheffler, Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele must be candidates.
And Bryson DeChambeau too who has been pegged as the team’s x-factor by Bradley.
Viktor Hovland has played every match in his two Ryder Cups, going in all five in Rome along with Rory McIlroy and playing the full house along with Jon Rahm in 2021.
McIlroy in fact has played in 33 of 34 available Ryder Cup sessions so he’s surely going the distance again, while Justin Rose has played all five matches twice but at his age perhaps not this year.
Despite Europe’s domination of this market I’m going to go against the grain as it’s time for the USA to win it again, and I think Patrick Cantlay is the man to do it.
He’s such a tough matchplay man with…
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