LIV Golf League captain Bryson DeChambeau and PGA Tour veterans Russell Henley and Harris English certified for the U.S. Ryder Cup group that can tackle the Europeans at Bethpage Black in New York subsequent month.
Henley, DeChambeau and English will be part of world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler, U.S. Open winner J.J. Spaun and two-time main champion Xander Schauffele on the American squad after they completed within the prime six in Ryder Cup factors following the ultimate spherical of Sunday’s BMW Championship.
U.S. group captain Keegan Bradley will make six captain’s decisions Aug. 27, three days after the ultimate spherical of subsequent week’s Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Membership in Atlanta.
DeChambeau, 31, who captured his second U.S. Open title at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina in 2024, shall be making his third Ryder Cup look. He had a 2-3-1 file within the 2018 and 2021 Ryder Cups.
English, 36, made the U.S. squad for the second time. He went 1-2-0 as a Ryder Cup rookie within the People’ 19-9 victory at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. Ranked No. 8 within the Official World Golf Rating, English picked up his first PGA Tour victory on the Farmers Insurance coverage Open in January.
English additionally tied for second on the PGA Championship in Could and was solo second at The Open in Northern Eire in July.
Henley, 36, will be part of Spaun as a Ryder Cup rookie at Bethpage Black. He gained his fifth PGA Tour match on the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March, then tied for tenth on the U.S. Open and The Open.
Henley, ranked fifth within the OWGR, is thought to be among the best ball strikers on tour. He ranked fifth in strokes gained: complete (1.310), eighth tee to inexperienced (1.049) and seventeenth method (.543) heading into the BMW Championship.
Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Ben Griffin and Bradley rounded out the highest 10 this week.
Bradley, the 2024 BMW Championship winner, completed tied for seventeenth at 1 underneath at Caves Valley Golf Membership in Owings Mills, Maryland, on Sunday, 16 strokes behind Scheffler, who gained for the fifth time this season.
Bradley stated earlier this week that he nonetheless wasn’t certain if he’d select himself with a captain’s decide.
There hasn’t been a Ryder Cup enjoying captain since Arnold Palmer led the U.S. group to a 23-9 rout over the Europeans at East Lake Golf Membership in Atlanta in 1963.
Maverick McNealy (third, 11 underneath), Sam Burns (tie for fourth, 10 underneath), Cameron Young (eleventh, 5 underneath), Griffin (tie for twelfth, 3 underneath) and Brian Harman (tie for nineteenth, even), who’re all combating for a captain’s decide, completed within the prime 20 within the BMW Championship.
The Ryder Cup shall be performed Sept. 26-28.
