NEW YORK — Keegan Bradley, along with the PGA of America, unveiled Crew USA’s choice standards for the 2025 Ryder Cup. The method is much like the one utilized in 2023, when the Europeans trounced the Individuals in Rome.
Nonetheless, one notable distinction stands out: Main champions won’t obtain bonus factors for successful in 2025.
Those that received majors in 2023 obtained two factors per $1,000 earned at The Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open, or The Open. That basically cemented all 4 main champions onto the group, together with Brooks Koepka, who turned the primary lively LIV participant to win a significant at Oak Hill.
No such reward might be granted this 12 months.
As a substitute, the PGA of America will retain its 1.5 Factors per $1,000 earned on the majors, which the group additionally utilized in 2023. However winners won’t obtain something extra. So, if a LIV Golfer wins a significant subsequent 12 months, they won’t obtain the premium that Koepka did at Oak Hill.
Koepka’s win in Rochester all however positioned him on the group, as he sat among the many prime six gamers for many of the season. That mentioned, Koepka completed seventh within the closing standings by the slimmest of margins, which had been finalized on the finish of the 2023 BMW Championship. However captain Zach Johnson had no selection however to make use of certainly one of his six captain’s picks on Koepka attributable to his robust play.
The highest six gamers earned computerized spots on the group, whereas Johnson had six captain’s picks at his disposal. The identical components applies to Bradley’s squad in 2025.
But, Bradley insists that he may have the 12 finest gamers on his group, no matter what tour they play on.
“I’m going to take the 12 finest gamers,” Bradley mentioned Tuesday.
“So if we really feel like there’s a number of guys there, one man, two guys, no matter it’s, then we’re going to try this. However we’re too far out to determine how that is all going to play out. However we’re undoubtedly going to take the 12 finest gamers, nevertheless that shakes out.”
As for the remaining standards, all American gamers—together with LIV Golf gamers—had the chance to earn factors on the 4 majors and The Gamers Championship in 2024. Gamers earned one Ryder Cup level for every $1,000 they obtained in these 5 occasions. Unsurprisingly, Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele sit atop the present Ryder Cup standings.
Then, in 2025, gamers who make the lower in PGA Tour occasions will obtain one level per $1,000 earned, starting on Jan. 1, 2025, via the conclusion of the BMW Championship—the penultimate occasion of the FedEx Cup Playoffs—on Aug. 17, 2025. That additionally contains The Gamers Championship. But, this method doesn’t embrace opposite-field occasions, such because the Corales Puntacana Championship, as gamers should compete in common PGA Tour occasions to earn factors.
That proves that Bradley solely needs the perfect of the perfect.
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