Ryder Cup Teams – USA
Brooks Koepka US Open champion and currently sits top of the US rankings for qualification points. Dustin Johnson World number 1 who won the Sentry Tournament of Champions and the Fedex St Jude Classic this year. Also had a third place at the US Open. Patrick Reed Masters champion and is a player who lives for the Ryder Cup. Expect him to continue his at times dominant partnership with Jordan Spieth in Paris. Justin Thomas Thomas got to world number 1 this year albeit for only a couple of weeks, but the achievement shows his consistency at performing at the highest level. He has one victory this year that came at the Honda Classic. Bubba Watson Watson is arguably the hottest American on tour right now after winning three times this year alone. He won the Genesis Open, WGC-Dell Technologies Matchplay and the Travellers Championship which shows he is in good form in 2018. Jordan Spieth Spieth may not have won this year, but he put in a good performance at The Open and has shown at the last couple of Ryder Cups just how he raises his game for the event. Your team is always better off when you have a player who can putt as well as Jordan Spieth. Rickie Fowler Like Spieth, Fowler has also failed to get into the winners circle in 2018; his last victory came at the tail end of 2017 at the Hero World Challenge. That being said, he had another second place at The Masters and knocked on the door at the Scottish Open too. Fowler is unstoppable when he gets going. Webb Simpson Simpson won at The Players this year holding off a challenge from Tiger Woods, and also secured a top 10 at the US Open. He has not played in the Ryder Cup since 2014. Wildcard picks – Bryson DeChambeau The Golfing Scientist has won three times on the PGA Tour in 2018 and risen up to a career-high seventh in the world. Tiger Woods The 14-time major winner has had a brilliant comeback year so far in 2018 and will make his first Ryder Cup appearance in six years. He hasn’t had a victory but has two second place finishes including one at the USPGA. He was also T6th at the Open. Phil Mickelson Lefty will be making his 12th straight Ryder Cup appearance after receiving one of Jim Furyk’s first three wildcard picks. In March of 2018 he won the WGC-Mexico Championship for his first victory since the 2013 Open. He became the oldest winner of a WGC event. Tony Finau Jim Furyk’s final wildcard pick was current world number 15, Tony Finau. The third Ryder Cup rookie in the American team, it has been a brilliantly consistent year for the golfer of Tongan and Samoan descent. He had top 10’s at three of the Majors and had top 10’s in each of the first three Fedex Cup playoff events.
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