{"id":56788,"date":"2026-08-27T00:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/56788\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:13:07","slug":"alex-noren-to-be-5th-vice-captain-for-europes-ryder-cup-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/56788\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Noren to be 5th vice captain for Europe’s Ryder Cup team"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON — Alex Noren<\/a> was named as Luke Donald<\/a>‘s fifth and final vice captain for Europe’s team<\/a> at the upcoming Ryder Cup on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Noren secured two points from three matches during Europe’s victory in 2018 at Le Golf National outside Paris. That performance included a 40-foot putt on the 18th hole to defeat Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> in the final Sunday singles match.<\/p>\n

This year’s Ryder Cup will be contested at Bethpage Black in New York from Sept. 26 to Sept. 28.<\/p>\n

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The other four vice captains were already named<\/a> and were also in place when Europe won at Marco Simone outside Rome in 2023: brothers Francesco<\/a> and Edoardo Molinari<\/a>, Thomas Bj\u00f8rn<\/a> and Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Olaz\u00e1bal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Noren is the only new vice captain, while Nicolas Colsaerts<\/a> was the only vice captain not retained from two years ago.<\/p>\n

“It was a big shock when I found out. I didn’t expect it at all,” Noren said. “I want to bring a good attitude to the team room. Bring some knowledge. I’ve been in this game a long time.”<\/p>\n

A Swede, Noren will have a connection with the Scandinavian players on the team: Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard<\/a> of Denmark, Viktor Hovland<\/a> of Norway and Ludvig \u00c5berg<\/a> of Sweden.<\/p>\n

“He will do everything that he can to help the team. He’s a humble guy, it’s never about Alex,” Donald said. “He is a good friend of mine. We practice together at the Bears Club (in Jupiter, Florida) where other players who are going to be on that team also practice. So he has a great familiarity with a lot of the guys and I think that’s really useful.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON — Alex Noren was named as Luke Donald‘s fifth and final vice captain for Europe’s team at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2162],"class_list":["post-56788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alex-noren","tag-alex-noren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}