{"id":74846,"date":"2025-08-16T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74846\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:24:11","slug":"golf-fans-stunned-after-learning-ryder-cup-hopeful-has-had-no-chats-with-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74846\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf fans stunned after learning Ryder Cup hopeful has had no chats with captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Golf fans have been left stunned after learning Harry Hall has had &#8220;no conversations&#8221; with Luke Donald about making his European Ryder Cup team.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation from Hall came after the in-form Englishman carded a solid second-round 67 to move into the top 10 on 5-under par heading into the weekend at the BMW Championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/players\/harry-hall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hall<\/a>, as it stands, would be on the bubble of the top 30 to make it into next week&#8217;s Tour Championship at East Lake.<\/p>\n<p>According to stats guru Jamie Kennedy, the World No.65 is statistically the fifth best European golfer on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/pga-tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PGA Tour<\/a> the past three months.<\/p>\n<p>Hall ranks first on the PGA Tour when it comes to strokes-gained putting, total birdies and birdie average, and he also has the most rounds in the 60s on the circuit (57) this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also second in scoring average and par-4 scoring, as well as third in the bounce back category.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Should Luke Donald pick Harry Hall for the Ryder Cup?<\/p>\n<p>(Don&#8217;t laugh&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>His PGA Tour ranks this season:<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f1st: SG Putting<br \/>\u25ab\ufe0f1st: Total Birdies<br \/>\u25ab\ufe0f1st: Birdie average<br \/>\u25ab\ufe0f2nd: Scoring average<br \/>\u25ab\ufe0f2nd: Par 4 scoring<br \/>\u25ab\ufe0f3rd: Bounce back<br \/>\u25ab\ufe0f5th: Par 3 scoring<br \/>\u25ab\ufe0f6th: Scrambling<br \/>\u25ab\ufe0f8th: SG\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cCP4ekNq0x\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/cCP4ekNq0x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie Kennedy (@jamierkennedy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamierkennedy\/status\/1956104729878024342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But despite all of that, along with 11 straight top-35 finishes on the PGA Tour the past three months, Hall admits he has had no recent conversations with European <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/ryder-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryder Cup<\/a> captain Donald or any other members of the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No conversations recently, no, just trying to play golf,&#8221; said Hall when pressed by a reporter as to whether he had spoken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/players\/luke-donald\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald<\/a> or his vice-captains ahead of the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage in New York from 26-28 September.<\/p>\n<p>When further pressed as to whether the Ryder Cup was on his mind, however, Hall nodded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, it has been the last couple weeks. Just got one job to do, and that&#8217;s go recover now and get ready for tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hall was then asked whether he had been through a fitting for a European Ryder Cup team uniform, to which he shook his head.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I haven&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hall was then asked what it would mean to him to make his debut appearance on the European Ryder Cup team should it happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, it would be massive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember growing up, and Phil Rowe, my assistant coach in college, and he was like my idol growing up, he played in the Walker Cup in &#8217;99. We have his bag in the clubhouse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People always used to say, H, are you going to put a Walker Cup bag up there one day, and I always said, a Ryder Cup one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, Hall lies 19th in the European Ryder Cup team standings.<\/p>\n<p>But inside the top 10 heading into the weekend at the BMW Championship, Hall knows he can not only lock up a first appearance at the Tour Championship next week but also give himself a golden chance to finally catch the attention of Donald.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Donald will make his six captain&#8217;s picks on the 2025 European Ryder Cup team on Monday 1 September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GolfMagic recently made its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/ryder-cup\/we-predicted-2025-ryder-cup-teams-so-you-could-shout-us#:~:text=Justin%20Thomas%2C%20Russell%20Henley%20and,There%20are%20plenty%20of%20options.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">predictions for both Ryder Cup teams<\/a>.<\/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":"Golf fans have been left stunned after learning Harry Hall has had &#8220;no conversations&#8221; with Luke Donald about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-74846","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\/74846","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=74846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}