Could Nicolai Hojgaard get the nod ahead of Matt Fitzpatrick?<\/p>\n
The Englishman, who revealed Donald urged him to play in this tournament, led by one heading into the final round but a closing 74 left him well off the pace at 10 under.<\/p>\n
He said after round three that his goal “was to make a case for myself [for the Ryder Cup]”. Whether the 2022 US Open champion has done enough, we will find out on 1 September.<\/p>\n
Lowry, who finished seventh on the rankings list, is among those looking nailed on for selection.<\/p>\n
Austria’s Sepp Straka, who has won twice on the PGA Tour this season finished eighth on the list, just above Ludvig Aberg of Sweden and Norway’s Viktor Hovland.<\/p>\n
All three played in the victory in Rome in 2023 and Donald may opt for that experience as Europe look to record a first away win in the biennial event since the ‘Miracle of Medinah’ in 2012.<\/p>\n
Jon Rahm, who won the LIV Golf individual title, looks certain to be included given he contributed 3\u00bd points in a losing cause at Whistling Straits in 2021 and three more in Italy.<\/p>\n
Of the others chasing a spot, Englishman Matt Wallace, who was 11th in the standings heading into the final qualification event, probably needed a victory but faded on the final day, posting a 77 to finish four under.<\/p>\n
Marco Penge, who has won twice this year, including last week’s Danish Championship, closed with a 72 and 10 under total, while Aaron Rai finished alongside Wallace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could Nicolai Hojgaard get the nod ahead of Matt Fitzpatrick? The Englishman, who revealed Donald urged him to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-93208","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\/93208","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=93208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}