Darren Clarke now has his nine automatic qualifiers for the Ryder Cup. (Getty Images) Nine of the 12 players who will represent Europe in the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National have been decided — and a week ahead of the cutoff. Matt Fitzpatrick and Andy Sullivan locked up spots the two final automatic qualifying spots […]
Don’t worry, Brexit won’t stop the Ryder Cup
July 2, 2016 by
Your browser does not support iframes. The Brexit — the U.K.’s decision to withdraw from the European Union — may collapse the pound, cost the country billions in economic development and isolate it from the rest of the continent, but it won’t affect the makeup of the European Ryder Cup team. The European Tour, which […]
Darren Clarke names trio of Ryder Cup vice-captains
May 28, 2016 by
The European Ryder Cup leadership team is taking shape. On Friday at the BMW PGA Championship in England, 2016 European captain Darren Clarke named three vice-captains: three-time major winner Padraig Harrington, 1999 British Open winner Paul Lawrie and Ryder Cup stalwart Thomas Bjorn. Having all played in the era of European dominance of the biennial […]
Woods won’t play Wells Fargo but still could make Ryder Cup team
April 30, 2016 by
That rumored Tiger Woods comeback isn’t happening next week in Charlotte. The entry deadline for the Wells Fargo Championship came and went on Friday afternoon, and Woods did not show up on the final entry list. Meanwhile, Woods was in Las Vegas for his annual Tiger Jam event to support his Tiger Woods Foundation. During […]
Lee Westwood eyes 2020 European Ryder Cup captaincy
April 1, 2016 by
Lee Westwood has eyes on becoming the European Ryder Cup captain in 2020. The soon-to-be 43-year-old thinks that he’d make a great leader for the biennial matches by the time the series gets to Whistling Straits, site of last year’s PGA Championship, in four years. “It’s four years away, but I’d love to do it,” Westwood […]
With Mexico win, G-Mac can focus on Ryder Cup, Olympic chase
February 4, 2016 by
After a 2014-15 season in which he considered walking away from professional golf, Graeme McDowell knew he couldn’t rest on his laurels with the turn of the PGA Tour calendar. He chose to eschew the European Tour’s version of the FedEx Cup playoffs and compete in some of the fall events on the PGA Tour’s […]
Spieth labels Ryder Cup as ‘possibly at the very top’ of ’16 goals
January 21, 2016 by
CIMB Classic winner Justin Thomas caught a lot of flak two weeks ago when he told Golf Channel, without hesitation, that he’d prefer being on a winning 2016 U.S. Ryder Cup team to winning a major this year. On Wednesday in Abu Dhabi, Jordan Spieth elevated the biennial match to a similar level. “[The Ryder […]
Ryder Cup player Jamie Donaldson suffers nasty chainsaw injury
January 19, 2016 by
Jamie Donaldson is out of this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship because of a gruesome chainsaw injury. The Welshman, who secured the winning point at the 2014 Ryder Cup, shared a picture of the post-incident injury on Twitter. (WARNING: If you get queasy easily, just skip down a little bit.) So folks in my […]
Justin Thomas says he’d rather win a Ryder Cup than a major in ’16
January 6, 2016 by
After getting his breakthrough PGA Tour win in November at the CIMB Classic in Malaysia, Justin Thomas is on the short list of golfers expected to carve out a spot in golf’s highest echelon in 2016. Thomas, who makes a lot of birdies and eagles and has prodigious length with his astounding club speed, is […]
