{"id":102451,"date":"2025-08-30T05:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/102451\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:06:10","slug":"noren-wins-british-masters-hojgaard-earns-ryder-cup-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/102451\/","title":{"rendered":"Nor\u00e9n wins British Masters; H\u00f8jgaard earns Ryder Cup spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

BIRMINGHAM, England — Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard secured the remaining automatic qualification place in Europe’s Ryder Cup team by finishing in a tie for 13th at the British Masters, which was won by Alex Nor\u00e9n<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

H\u00f8jgaard needed to finish in a two-way tie for 29th or better in the tournament at The Belfry to earn enough points to overtake Shane Lowry<\/a>, who was clinging onto the sixth and final spot in the list of automatic qualifiers in Europe’s team.<\/p>\n

Despite being wracked with nerves, H\u00f8jgaard shot 1-under 71 in the final round and jumped past Lowry. Nor\u00e9n shot 67, holing a 7-foot bogey putt at the last for a one-stroke victory on 16-under par.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know what to feel — I’ve been so stressed out on the course today. I was telling my caddie, I don’t know how I’m going to be able to do this,” said H\u00f8jgaard, who will make his Ryder Cup debut at Bethpage Black next month.<\/p>\n

“I’m over the moon right now.”<\/p>\n

H\u00f8jgaard received a call from European captain Luke Donald<\/a> after his round.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know what to feel — I’ve been so stressed out on the course today. I was telling my caddie, I don’t know how I’m going to be able to do this,” said Rasmus Hojgaard, who will make his Ryder Cup debut next month. “I’m over the moon right now.”\u00a0Luke Walker\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

“You’ve earned it, you belong, and I’m very, very excited to have you on the team,” Donald could be heard saying.<\/p>\n

“I know that was a stressful week,” Donald added, “lots of ups and downs, but you came out on top and that’s what it’s about. So you should be proud of yourself.”<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy<\/a>, Justin Rose<\/a>, Tommy Fleetwood<\/a>, Robert MacIntyre<\/a> and Tyrrell Hatton<\/a> had already claimed the other five automatic spots in Luke Donald’s team, which will be defending the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

Lowry must now hope for one of the six captain’s picks to complete the 12-man team. They will be announced on Sept. 1.<\/p>\n

Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard’s twin brother, Nicolai, competed for Europe in the 2023 Ryder Cup outside Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM, England — Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard secured the remaining automatic qualification place in Europe’s Ryder Cup team by finishing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-102451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}