{"id":107231,"date":"2025-09-01T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/107231\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:20:08","slug":"europe-captain-luke-donald-named-his-six-ryder-cup-captains-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/107231\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe captain Luke Donald named his six Ryder Cup captain&#8217;s picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald opts for continuitypublished at 15:13 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>15:13 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In case you missed it earlier &#8211; Shane Lowry, Jon Rahm, Sepp Straka, Ludvig Aberg, Viktor Hovland and Matt Fitzpatrick are Luke Donald&#8217;s captain&#8217;s picks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They join Rory McIlroy, Robert MacIntyre, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, Rasmus Hojgaard and Tyrrell Hatton to complete the 12-man Europe team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It means 11 of the 12 players from Rome will tee it up in Bethpage. The only change sees Rasmus Hojgaard &#8211; who qualified automatically &#8211; replace his brother, Nicolai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since the Ryder Cup was altered to allow European players to compete in 1979, there has never been so few changes made to a team &#8211; on average, Europe make five in each two-year cycle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Luke Donald with the Ryder Cup after making his captain's picks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/09f0dc3d-db15-4b17-bd31-44bc0ad93a22.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"690\" height=\"388\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald opts for continuitypublished at 15:13 British Summer Time 15:13 BST In case you missed it earlier &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-107231","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\/107231","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=107231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}