European captain Luke Donald will today confirm his six picks to complete Europe’s Ryder Cup line-up ahead of the event later this month.
Irish eyes will be fixed on Shane Lowry who narrowly missed out on automatic qualification for the team but will be hopeful of being picked today.
Rory McIlroy, Robert MacIntyre, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, Rasmus Hojgaard and Tyrrell Hatton are the six players already confirmed to be on the team.
The announcement is due to be made at 2pm and you can follow all the coverage live here.
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For the trivia fans out there, it seems pretty nailed on that whatever formulation Donald comes up with in the next hour or so will make history. Since the Ryder Cup began 98 years ago, the fewest changes made by either side between one set of matches and the next has been three. If, as seems likely, Donald only makes one change from the team that won in Rome – Rasmus Hojgaard for Nicolai – it will be the first time a team from either side of the pond has run it back with only one change.
In fairness, Wallace couldn’t have done much more to sew at least some small seeds of doubt into the whole thing. This was him over the weekend after coming tied second in Switzerland.
It would be pretty funny if Donald pulled a rabbit from a hat here, of course. But what would that surprise bunny even look like? Matt Wallace for Shane Lowry or Sepp Straka? A second Hojgaard twin snuck in to unsettle the Americans? Luke Donald just isn’t that sort of cat. And even if he was, the fact that Keegan Bradley has done the sensible thing and not picked himself has surely made it even more likely that Europe will go with the tried and tested here.