Ryder Cup squads set as Padraig Harrington finalizes European team
The Ryder Cup is now set after European captain Padraig Harrington announced his picks to complete his team to face the USA at Whistling Straits next week.
(CNN)The Ryder Cup is present acceptable aft European skipper Padraig Harrington announced his picks to implicit his squad to look the USA astatine Whistling Straits adjacent week.
Ian Poulter, Sergio Garcia and Shane Lowry were selected by Harrington arsenic wildcard picks arsenic helium finalized his 12-man team connected Sunday night.
"I'm truly blessed with my team," Harrington said during the announcement. "It's a large squad for foursomes and fourball play, a batch of bully ball-strikers and it's a squad going to Whistling Straits that is well-suited to the play course. It's a strong, well-rounded and precise balanced team."
Spaniard Garcia is making his 10th Ryder Cup quality and is Europe's all-time starring points scorer.
Poulter, who is somewhat of a talisman for Europe, besides has an awesome grounds astatine the competition, boasting an undefeated paper successful the singles format.
Harrington's chap Irishman Lowry volition beryllium making his debut quality astatine the Ryder Cup, though helium calls reaching the celebrated biennial tournament, which gets underway astatine Whistling Straits successful Wisconsin connected September 24, a "career-long goal."
"There's nary constituent going implicit conscionable to marque up numbers," the 2019 Open victor said. "We privation to spell implicit and triumph and I person that successful my head. I've said that each year, I don't privation to beryllium determination conscionable to accidental I've played the Ryder Cup. I privation to spell and I privation to marque it count."
Justin Rose was the highest illustration sanction to miss retired connected Harrington's Ryder Cup team. The 2021 signifier of the erstwhile satellite No. 1, who has played successful 5 Ryder Cups, meant helium failed to adjacent suffice for the PGA Tour's 125-man FedExCup Playoffs successful August.
Earlier connected Sunday, Lee Westwood, Matt Fitzpatrick and Bernd Wiesberger confirmed their spots arsenic the last 3 automatic qualifiers for the European squad aft the last circular of the BMW PGA Championship.
It volition beryllium Westwood's 11th quality astatine the competition, equaling Nick Faldo's grounds for astir Ryder Cup appearances for Team Europe.
The different automatic qualifiers which had been already confirmed were Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton, Viktor Hovland and Paul Casey.
Lowry, Hovland and Wiesberger are each making their Ryder Cup debuts.
Team USA skipper Steve Stricker connected the different manus has picked six rookies for his broadside successful the hopes they tin reclaim the trophy.
Daniel Berger, Scottie Scheffler, Harris English, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa and Patrick Cantlay volition each beryllium making their Ryder Cup bows astatine Whistling Straits.
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