World number one Scottie Scheffler, a two-time Masters champion who won this year\u2019s British Open and PGA Championship, US Open winner J.J. Spaun and two-time major winner Xander Schauffele had already clinched berths based on accumulated qualifying points.<\/p>\n
US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley will announce his six captain\u2019s picks to complete the squad on August 27, with a major question being whether or not he will pick himself to play against Europe at Bethpage Black next month.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been saying all year, you can\u2019t expect to be on the team unless you\u2019re in the top six,\u201d said Bradley.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy goal is to go out there, whether I was Ryder Cup captain or not this week, and play well and play well next week at the Tour Championship as well.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere\u2019s definitely a lot more on my plate here these next couple of weeks. The Ryder Cup has always been so far away, and now it\u2019s right there. Things are definitely amping up. I still have a lot to prove just as well as everyone around me on the list.\u201d<\/p>\n
Should Bradley pick himself, he could be the first team captain to also play since Arnold Palmer in 1963. <\/p>\n
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Alternatively, he could opt to play for the Americans and let one of his vice-captains take over more of those responsibilities.<\/p>\n
Along with himself, Justin Thomas (No.7), Collin Morikawa (No.8), Ben Griffin (No.9), Maverick McNealy (No.11) and Andrew Novak (No.12) are some of leading names Bradley could consider for the captain\u2019s picks.<\/p>\n
Of course, it was just two years ago that Bradley (ranked 11th in the standings) was overlooked in favour of Thomas in a move that sparked debate over the US \u2018boys club\u2019. <\/p>\n
Bradley was then picked as America\u2019s next captain last year in a surprise twist and now with Thomas at 7th, he will have no choice but to pick the man at the centre of the previous selection controversy.<\/p>\n
As for those locked into qualification, Scheffler, who won his fifth title of the year Sunday at the BMW, is 2-2-3 in Ryder Cup matches.<\/p>\n
Spaun and Henley will be making their Ryder Cup debuts.<\/p>\n
Schauffele, last year\u2019s British Open and PGA Championship winner, is 4-4-0 in two prior Ryder Cups while English was 1-2-0 on the triumphant US team in 2021 at Whistling Straits.<\/p>\n
DeChambeau, a two-time US Open champion, won this year\u2019s LIV Golf Korea title and has a 2-3-1 Ryder Cup record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf\u2019s Bryson DeChambeau joined PGA Tour players Russell Henley and Harris English in qualifying for US Ryder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-77084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}