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Mark Schlabach
U.S. Open winner J.J. Spaun and two-time main champion Xander Schauffele will be part of world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler on the U.S. staff when it takes on Europe in subsequent month’s Ryder Cup.
Spaun moved to No. 2 within the U.S. staff factors standings and certified for the staff together with his third runner-up end of the season in Sunday’s FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis. He can be a Ryder Cup rookie.
Spaun, ranked eighth within the Official World Golf Rating, misplaced to England’s Justin Rose on the third gap of a sudden-death playoff at TPC Southwind within the first leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Rose and England’s Tommy Fleetwood have secured sufficient factors to affix Masters champion Rory McIlroy on the European staff.
Spaun, 34, captured his first main championship when he made a 64½-foot birdie putt on the 72nd gap of the U.S. Open at Oakmont Nation Membership on June 15.
Schauffele received his first two majors on the PGA Championship and Open Championship in 2024, then was slowed by a painful rib damage initially of this season. He hasn’t received this 12 months and has three high 10s and 9 high 25s in 14 begins on tour.
Schauffele, ranked third on the earth, can be making his third consecutive look within the Ryder Cup. He has a 4-4-0 file within the occasion, together with a 1-3 mark within the U.S. staff’s 16 ½ – 11 ½ loss to the Europeans at Marco Simone Golf Membership exterior Rome in 2023.
The golfers ranked fourth to sixth within the U.S. factors standings after this week’s BMW Championship at Caves Valley Golf Membership in Owings Mills, Maryland, additionally will mechanically qualify for the staff.
Russell Henley, LIV Golf League captain Bryson DeChambeau and Harris English are at present within the high six in factors.
U.S. staff captain Keegan Bradley will make six captain’s decisions on Aug. 27, three days after the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Membership in Atlanta.
Justin Thomas is at present seventh in factors, adopted by Collin Morikawa, Ben Griffin, Bradley, Maverick McNealy and Andrew Novak.
Brian Harman (thirteenth), Cameron Young (14th), Patrick Cantlay (fifteenth), Sam Burns (sixteenth) and others are most likely within the combine for roster spots as properly.
The highest six golfers within the European staff’s factors standings on Aug. 24 will qualify for the staff. McIlroy, Rose and Fleetwood have secured qualification on factors, and Robert MacIntyre, Tyrrell Hatton and Sepp Straka spherical out the present high six.
Shane Lowry, Rasmus Højgaard, Ludvig Åberg and Viktor Hovland spherical out the highest 10 and appear to be in fine condition to be captain’s picks if they do not earn one of many computerized berths.
LIV Golf League captain Jon Rahm is twenty second and can make the staff, that means Matt Wallace, Matt Fitzpatrick, Thomas Detry and Aaron Rai is perhaps battling for one or two spots.