Lowry And Rahm Headline Luke Donald’s Six Wildcard Picks For Europe’s Ryder Cup Defence

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Europe will take sides nan Ryder Cup later this period pinch 11 of nan 12 players who saw disconnected nan United States successful Rome 2 years agone aft Luke Donald unsurprisingly opted for acquisition pinch his wildcard picks. Europe’s skipper has turned to Shane Lowry, Sepp Straka, Victor Hovland, Ludvig Åberg, Jon Rahm and Matt Fitzpatrick to complete his squad for Bethpage. Donald confirmed his choices connected Monday, 5 days aft his US counterpart Keegan Bradley had done likewise.

Rory McIlroy, Robert MacIntyre, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton and Rasmus Højgaard had already automatically qualified for nan European side. In what is simply a quirk, Højgaard is nan sole alteration from Rome wherever his copy brother, Nicolai, turned retired successful European colours.

Those to narrowly miss retired see Matt Wallace, who was reduced to tears astatine nan extremity of nan DP World Tour’s extremity successful Switzerland connected Sunday upon realisation his Ryder Cup dream was complete erstwhile again. Cases were besides made astatine various points successful nan qualifying process for Marco Penge, Thomas Detry, Harry Hall and Aaron Rai but it ever felt apt Donald would opt for consistency. Europe person not won aliases retained a Ryder Cup connected US ungraded since 2012.