{"id":21500,"date":"2025-08-25T04:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21500\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T04:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:53:11","slug":"shane-lowry-left-to-hope-for-ryder-cup-wild-card-as-rasmus-hojgaard-secures-automatic-spot-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21500\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry left to hope for Ryder Cup wild card as Rasmus Hojgaard secures automatic spot \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shane Lowry<\/a> will have to wait on what he hopes is a \u201cfriendly\u201d phone call from Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup<\/a> captain Luke Donald if he is make it to Bethpage Black for next month\u2019s defence of the trophy against the United States.<\/p>\n

With Lowry\u2019s destiny out of his own hands, Denmark\u2019s Rasmus Hojgaard\u2019s tied-13th place finish in the British Masters at The Belfry \u2013 won by Sweden\u2019s Alex Noren \u2013 was sufficient to leapfrog him up to fifth place in the qualifying standings, moving ahead of Tyrrell Hatton, who secured the sixth automatic spot, and dropping Lowry to seventh.<\/p>\n

Donald has six captain\u2019s wild card picks to play with, although Lowry \u2013 who played on the losing team in Whistling Straits in 2021 and on the winning team in Rome in 2023 \u2013 looks certain to be one of the first names that will be added. Lowry\u2019s 1,265 points was just four behind those of Hatton, which he equated to just one stroke over the entire calendar year qualifying process.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Lowry had travelled to the Tour Championship in Atlanta \u2013 the final event of the PGA Tour\u2019s FedEx Cup playoffs \u2013 believing his efforts there would still count, even though the qualifying criteria had been set out clearly in black and white with the British Masters concluding the standings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI only found out about that Monday. I thought I was guaranteed getting points this week. I thought I was going to be pretty much guaranteed on the team. Yeah, I was somewhat disappointed to hear that. But the rules were made at the start for qualifying, and that was it,\u201d said Lowry, who will no doubt get some word from Donald ahead of the official announcement on Monday, September 1st.<\/p>\n

\"RasmusRasmus Hojgaard celebrates on the 18th green following his final round in the British Masters and subsequent qualification for the European Ryder Cup team. Photograph: Luke Walker\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

With Hojgaard doing what he had to do to ensure a place on the team, there was a heart-warming exchange between captain and player afterwards.<\/p>\n

Hojgaard received the phone call from Donald shortly after signing his scorecard for a final round 71 for 280 to comfortably get inside his target.<\/p>\n

\u201cWelcome to Team Europe,\u201d said Donald. \u201cHow does it feel?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels amazing! I don\u2019t think I have been that stressed out before playing the last few holes but, yeah, it was pretty cool,\u201d said the Dane.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, you\u2019ve earned it. You belong. And I am very, very excited to have you on the team,\u201d replied Donald.<\/p>\n

The six automatic qualifiers for Europe were Rory McIlroy<\/a>, Robert MacIntyre, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, Hojgaard and Hatton.<\/p>\n

United States captain Keegan Bradley will complete his 12-man team by naming his six wild cards on Wednesday next, with a decision to be made on whether he will choose to become the first playing captain since Arnold Palmer in 1963.<\/p>\n

Noren, meanwhile, bogeyed the final hole but still claimed the 11th DP World Tour win of his career with a final round 67 for a 16-under-par 272 that gave him a one-stroke winning margin over Nicolai Hojgaard and Kazuma Kobori.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry will have to wait on what he hopes is a \u201cfriendly\u201d phone call from Europe\u2019s Ryder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,5948,5951,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-21500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-ryder-cup","12":"tag-shane-lowry","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}