Harry Hall may have offered a glimpse into Luke Donald\u2019s thinking Friday when he said that he hasn\u2019t had any recent conversations with the European Ryder Cup captain.<\/p>\n
Hall, who was inside the top 5 at the BMW Championship when he finished his second round at Caves Valley, was believed to be under consideration for one of the final spots on Donald\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
However, Hall, 28, who would be a Ryder Cup rookie, said that he hasn\u2019t spoken recently with Donald and hasn\u2019t been fit for a team uniform, which is generally standard practice for those who are in contention to make the squad. Hall said he\u2019ll communicate with Donald every \u201cnow and then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been the last couple weeks,\u201d Hall said of whether the Ryder Cup has been on his mind. But that right now, he said, he\u2019s \u201cjust trying to play golf.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hall began the week 45th in the FedExCup standings as he tries to play his way into the Tour Championship for the first time.<\/p>\n
With a week and a half to go in qualifying, Donald\u2019s team could look strikingly familiar to the one that was victorious in Rome two years ago. It\u2019s possible that 11 or all 12 players who were on the 2023 squad could run it back again this time at Bethpage Black, with as few as one spot up for grabs.<\/p>\n
Rasmus Hojgaard, who is currently eighth on the European points list after a strong end to the 2024 season, leads this week\u2019s DP World Tour event in his native Denmark with two rounds to play. Hojgaard failed to make the PGA Tour\u2019s postseason, ranking 85th in FedExCup points. His twin brother, Nicolai, played on the 2023 Ryder Cup team (going 0-2-1), and is another contender to rejoin the team for a second time.<\/p>\n
The Englishman Hall, meanwhile, is the top-ranked putter on Tour, leads the circuit in birdie average, ranks second in actual scoring average and has been one of the most consistent would-be contenders, with four top-10 finishes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be massive,\u201d Hall said of the Ryder Cup. \u201cI remember growing up, and Phil Rowe, my assistant coach in college (at UNLV), he was my idol growing up, and he played in the Walker Cup in 1999. We have his bag in the clubhouse.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd people always used to say, \u2018H, are you going to put a Walker Cup bag up there one day?\u2019 And I always said, \u2018A Ryder Cup one.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
After qualifying ends on Aug. 24, following the British Masters, Donald will announce his six captain\u2019s picks on Sept. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Hall may have offered a glimpse into Luke Donald\u2019s thinking Friday when he said that he hasn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-73784","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73784","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=73784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}