{"id":113625,"date":"2025-09-02T06:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113625\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T06:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:50:06","slug":"ryder-cup-luke-donald-rounds-out-team-europe-with-captains-picks-including-jon-rahm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113625\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup: Luke Donald rounds out Team Europe with captain’s picks, including Jon Rahm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luke Donald has announced his captain’s picks for Team Europe at the 2025 Ryder Cup, and the resulting team is a familiar one. With one exception, the team is the exact same one that demolished the United States at Marco Simone in Rome two years ago.<\/p>\n

The captain’s picks include:<\/p>\n

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Shane Lowry: Two-time Ryder Cup player, 2-3-1 record. Lowry is the ultimate European team player, a grinder and loyal wingman who can thrive in a hostile environment.<\/p>\n

Jon Rahm: Three-time Ryder Cup player, 6-3-3 record. Rahm is simply one of the finest players on the planet, now dominating LIV Golf the same way he once dominated the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n

Sepp Straka: One-time Ryder Cup player, 1-2-0 record. A two-time winner on the PGA Tour, he narrowly missed automatically qualifying for the team.<\/p>\n

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Viktor Hovland: Two-time Ryder Cup player, 3-4-3 record. Despite a slight recent slide in seasonal performance, Hovland remains a valuable and fierce match play challenge.<\/p>\n

Ludvig \u00c5berg: One-time Ryder Cup player, 2-2-0 record. Two-time PGA Tour winner who’s still incredibly early in his career; he looks to be headed to a decades-long run on this team.<\/p>\n

Matt Fitzpatrick: Three-time Ryder Cup player, 1-7-0 record. The 2022 U.S. Open champion, he basically played his way onto the team in the last few weeks after a rough start to the season.<\/p>\n

The six captain’s picks join the six who already qualified: Rory McIlroy, Robert MacIntyre, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard and Tyrrell Hatton. The only difference from the 2023 team is a swap of H\u00f8jgaards, Rasmus for Nicolai.<\/p>\n

United States captain Keegan Bradley announced his six captain’s picks last week<\/a>. The Ryder Cup tees off later this month at the famed Bethpage Black in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Donald has announced his captain’s picks for Team Europe at the 2025 Ryder Cup, and the resulting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,1977,51218,3747,13261,1973,82,64067],"class_list":{"0":"post-113625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-jon-rahm","12":"tag-luke-donald","13":"tag-pga-tour","14":"tag-ryder-cup","15":"tag-shane-lowry","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-team-europe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}