The Ryder Cup is nearly upon us so we have taken a have a look at the type of all 24 gamers set to enter the large 1st tee grandstand at Bethpage Black for Team USA or Europe.
Each groups are supremely sturdy, with the entire world’s prime ten and 15 of the world’s prime 16 gamers concerned.
The only player not teeing it up from the top 16 is USA captain Keegan Bradley, who remarkably ranks twelfth on the earth.
So, who’s in kind and who’s not heading into Bethpage? Let’s check out among the stand-out numbers.
Stalwarts
Scheffler will be the man to beat in New York
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World No.1 Scottie Scheffler is drawing increasingly more Tiger Woods comparisons, and his kind main into the 2025 Ryder Cup is solely outstanding.
Scheffler has six wins this season – probably the most of all 24 gamers – and hasn’t completed outdoors of the top-eight in any match since The Gamers Championship in March.
He’ll undoubtedly be Keegan Bradley’s key man and the participant to beat in New York.
On the opposite aspect, Rory McIlroy leads the way in which for Crew Europe with 4 victories this season. Sepp Straka is the one different man on both crew to have received a couple of particular person title this yr.
McIlroy’s kind clearly is not as spectacular as Scheffler’s however a win and 4 top-12s in his final seven begins firmly cements him because the second-best participant on the 2025 Ryder Cup.
Jon Rahm is one other you need to point out within the stalwarts class and he enters the match excessive on confidence after profitable his second successive LIV Golf particular person title.
Rahm has bizarrely has not received a single match this season however nonetheless ranks as Europe’s third-best participant behind McIlroy and Fleetwood in response to Information Golf.
Trending
Fitzpatrick has been excellent this summer
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Luke Donald can definitely consider a number of his players to be trending heading into Bethpage, notably Matt Fitzpatrick who has seven top-10s in his final 9 begins.
Fitzpatrick has a worrying Ryder Cup document with only one victory in 5 matches however he’s undoubtedly probably the most in-form gamers on both crew proper now.
Tommy Fleetwood has had an excellent summer time in profitable his first PGA Tour title and he’s presently ranked 2nd in Information Golf to be Europe’s greatest participant statistically. The Englishman has a win and three different top-four finishes in his final seven begins.
Apparently, Europe has three of the 4 greatest gamers within the sport proper now in response to Information Golf with Fleetwood, McIlroy and Rahm sat behind Scheffler within the prime 4.
Tommy Fleetwood is statistically Europe’s greatest participant heading into Bethpage
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Viktor Hovland and Ludvig Aberg are two others who look like discovering kind on the proper time, with Hovland’s final three begins studying T5-12-T7 and Aberg’s final 5 studying T20-T21-T7-T9-T23-T8.
On the US aspect, Keegan Bradley additionally has some trending gamers – most notably with Russell Henley, who has cemented himself as among the best golfers on the earth this yr.
Henley, ranked 4th within the OWGR, received the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March and has two runners-up, two top-10s and a worst end of T19 in his final seven begins.
Ben Griffin is one other American enjoying nice golf this yr, with the rookie getting into the week off 5 consecutive top-12 finishes: 2-T10-T12-T9-T11.
New York’s personal Cameron Young is one other rookie, and he has additionally discovered nice kind over the late summer time with 5 consecutive top-11 finishes together with his first ever PGA Tour victory: T9-T4-11-5-1.
Slight concerns?
Morikawa has struggled on the greens this year
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It has to be said that most of the 24 players appear to be arriving in New York in at least some kind of form, but there still could be some slight concerns for the captains.
Collin Morikawa could also be one in every of them, with the two-time Main winner going by way of 5 caddies in a winless yr.
He lately changed his putter to attempt to flip his kind round on the greens, together with his SG: Placing numbers letting him down in a giant method.
Morikawa has misplaced a median of 0.313 strokes per spherical on the greens this yr to rank 141st, though his long-game stats nonetheless look excellent so he may very well be harmful if he can get some confidence with the flat stick.
He’s additionally with out a top-10 in his final six begins, together with his outcomes studying: T43-T19-T33-T22-MC-MC.
Xander Schauffele is hardly a priority for Bradley however this isn’t the identical Schauffele that turned as much as the Presidents Cup final yr off the again of two Main wins.
The World No.3 has performed simply 15 occasions in 2025, the fewest of any participant on the Ryder Cup, after struggling with a rib damage and his three top-10s are stable however definitely unspectacular.
For Europe, Sepp Straka’s kind and sharpness is slight a fear for Luke Donald.
Straka hasn’t performed since ending dead-last at East Lake final month
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The Austrian is one in every of simply three males on the Ryder Cup this yr to have received a number of occasions however they had been in January and Could.
Since then his kind has been up and down, and lacking the BMW Championship attributable to changing into a father after which ending dead-last on the Tour Championship cannot be ignored.
He additionally didn’t play on the Irish Open or BMW PGA Championship so is coming in considerably competitively rusty in comparison with his friends.
His foursomes associate from Rome, Shane Lowry, has no top-10s in his final seven begins whereas Tyrrell Hatton, thought of to be one of many world’s prime gamers, has only one top-10 in his final seven, albeit that was a T5 at Wentworth final week in order that may very well be an awesome signal he’s coming again into kind.
Who could be fatigued or undercooked?
Rookie Ben Griffin has played 29 tournaments so far this year!
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Ben Griffin has played a remarkable 29 tournaments this year, which included 13 weeks in a row in order to try and qualify for The Masters.
His 29-event total is three more than anyone else at the Ryder Cup and 14 more than Schauffele.
Griffin has had a remarkable year and comes in hot after his 2nd-place finish at the Procore Championship so there should be no concerns there.
In terms of who could be undercooked or a little rusty, Sepp Straka has already had a mention while Bryson DeChambeau may fall into that class.
Bryson DeChambeau’s final match was the LIV Golf Crew Championship, which completed on August twenty fourth
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The LIV Golf star didn’t decide to play on the DP World Tour this month for tune-ups and remains to be suspended by the PGA Tour so could not tee it up on the Procore.
Meaning his final begin was the LIV Golf Crew Championship on the finish of August, leading to a full 4 weeks off by the point he will get to Bethpage.
Bryson is a novel participant who works extremely exhausting so I am positive Bradley is not too anxious, however the info stay that 4 full weeks off may very well be a slight concern for the sharpness of his aggressive sport.
USA vs Europe: Last seven starts and 2025 wins/starts
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