LONDON — Alex Noren was named as Luke Donald‘s fifth and closing vice captain for Europe’s team on the upcoming Ryder Cup on Tuesday.
Noren secured two factors from three matches throughout Europe’s victory in 2018 at Le Golf Nationwide outdoors Paris. That efficiency included a 40-foot putt on the 18th gap to defeat Bryson DeChambeau within the closing Sunday singles match.
This yr’s Ryder Cup might be contested at Bethpage Black in New York from Sept. 26 to Sept. 28.
The opposite 4 vice captains have been already named and have been additionally in place when Europe received at Marco Simone outdoors Rome in 2023: brothers Francesco and Edoardo Molinari, Thomas Bjørn and José María Olazábal.
Noren is the one new vice captain, whereas Nicolas Colsaerts was the one vice captain not retained from two years in the past.
“It was a giant shock after I came upon. I did not count on it in any respect,” Noren mentioned. “I wish to carry an excellent perspective to the crew room. Convey some information. I have been on this recreation a very long time.”
A Swede, Noren could have a reference to the Scandinavian gamers on the crew: Rasmus Højgaard of Denmark, Viktor Hovland of Norway and Ludvig Åberg of Sweden.
“He’ll do the whole lot that he can to assist the crew. He is a humble man, it is by no means about Alex,” Donald mentioned. “He is an efficient good friend of mine. We follow collectively on the Bears Membership (in Jupiter, Florida) the place different gamers who’re going to be on that crew additionally follow. So he has an ideal familiarity with numerous the blokes and I feel that is actually helpful.”
