{"id":98516,"date":"2025-08-27T01:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98516\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T01:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:36:23","slug":"report-sam-burns-to-play-on-us-ryder-cup-team-after-receiving-captains-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98516\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Sam Burns to play on US Ryder Cup team after receiving captain&#8217;s pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Burns has received one of Keegan Bradley&#8217;s six captain&#8217;s picks on the 2025 US Ryder Cup team, according to NUCLR Golf.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/players\/sam-burns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burns<\/a>, 29, finished 16th on the US Ryder Cup team standings.<\/p>\n<p>Despite falling well short of the top six automatic spots on the team, Burns has strung together two impressive performances on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Burns finished tied fourth at the BMW Championship before a tie for seventh at the Tour Championship on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know whatever decision he [Bradley] makes is going to be one that he thinks is best for the team,&#8221; said Burns after the FedEx Cup finale at East Lake.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, I\u2019m Team USA. If I\u2019m on the team, awesome. I would love nothing more. If I\u2019m not, I\u2019ll be rooting for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Should news be made official of Burns&#8217; selection then it will mark his second straight appearance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/ryder-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryder Cup <\/a>team.<\/p>\n<p>The big-hitting American took one point from three during the United States&#8217; crushing five-point loss to Europe in Rome in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Burns, who is ranked 22nd in the world, has also played on the last two US Presidents Cup teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The five-time PGA Tour winner regularly plays golf with his good friend and World No.1 Scottie Scheffler, so we will likely see them pair up at least a couple of times at the 2025 Ryder Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Bradley will officially reveal his six captain&#8217;s picks to the world on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>NUCLR Golf tweeted: &#8220;Sources familiar tell NUCLR GOLF that Sam Burns has received the call from Captain Keegan Bradley to play for Team USA at Bethpage Black. Burns is ranked #16 in the U.S. team standings and is set to make his 2nd Ryder Cup appearance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u260e\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#BREAKING<\/a> &#8211; Sources familiar tell NUCLR GOLF that Sam Burns has received the call from Captain Keegan Bradley to play for Team USA at Bethpage Black. Burns is ranked #16 in the U.S. team standings and is set to make his 2nd Ryder Cup appearance. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/53neDpEi8P\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/53neDpEi8P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NUCLRGOLF\/status\/1960065841917202862?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas and Patrick Cantlay are also expected to receive picks from Bradley.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The biggest question surrounds whether Bradley will indeed pick himself to play on the US Ryder Cup team.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Should Bradley elect to play on the team, then he will become the first playing-captain at the Ryder Cup since late great Arnold Palmer in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/ryder-cup\/keegan-bradley-gives-predictable-response-inevitable-ryder-cup-question-after-pga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gave a predictable response<\/a> after the Tour Championship on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, JJ Spaun, Russell Henley, Bryson DeChambeau and Harris English qualified automatically for Bradley&#8217;s team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald will confirm his six picks on Monday 1 September.<\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy, Tyrrell Hatton, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre and Rasmus Hojgaard have qualified automatically for Donald&#8217;s team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Ryder Cup takes place at Bethpage in New York from 26-28 September.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Newsletter<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Burns has received one of Keegan Bradley&#8217;s six captain&#8217;s picks on the 2025 US Ryder Cup team,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-98516","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\/98516","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=98516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}