Jordan Spieth and Olympic champion Xander Schauffele among Team USA’s Ryder Cup captain’s picks
English, Berger, Scheffler and Schauffele will all be making their Ryder Cup debuts, whereas Spieth, who will make his fourth look, and Finau had been a part of the US group defeated 17½-10½ by Europe three years in the past.
“We’re in search of the perfect gamers to carry out right here at Whistling Straits and these six guys that we picked, we really feel like (they) match Whistling Straits to a tee,” Stricker stated throughout a press convention on Wednesday.
These six gamers be a part of Collin Morikawa, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas and Patrick Cantlay, who all robotically certified based mostly on factors earned from performances over the previous two years.
Patrick Reed, the 2018 Masters champion who featured within the Ryder Cup group that yr, is the top-ranked American participant to overlook out on a captain’s choose.
“That was a really, very troublesome name, I sort of misplaced sleep over that one,” stated Stricker. “He is an incredible competitor, he brings rather a lot to matchplay golf, his document right here on the Ryder Cup is fairly darn good.
“It was a really troublesome name, it wasn’t a simple one. It was simply the uncertainty actually of his well being and actually the shortage of play that result in our resolution down the stretch.”
Reed was hospitalized with bilateral pneumonia final month and returned to motion finally week’s Tour Championship.
USA has received simply two of the previous 9 Ryder Cups, with this yr marking the forty third version of the event having been postponed from final yr amid the pandemic.
Jon Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood, Paul Casey, Rory McIlroy and Viktor Hovland have all earned automated qualification for Staff Europe based mostly on the world and European factors lists.
4 extra automated qualification spots are nonetheless up for grabs, plus three picks from captain Padraig Harrington set to be introduced on Sunday.
