{"id":207376,"date":"2025-06-23T10:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/207376\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:04:11","slug":"ryder-cup-2025-team-usa-latest-qualification-standings-after-keegan-bradley-wins-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/207376\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup 2025: Team USA latest qualification standings after Keegan Bradley wins Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 39-year-old was a surprise selection as captain for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/team-usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Team USA<\/a> and has made it clear he has ambitions of being involved at Bethpage later this year as a player too.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley has insisted that he would not use a captain\u2019s pick on himself, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/travelers-championship-tommy-fleetwood-keegan-bradley-pga-tour-golf-b1234310.html\" title=\"Travelers: Tommy Fleetwood suffers final-hole heartbreak as Keegan Bradley denies him first PGA Tour win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">victory at the Travelers Championship <\/a>has moved him up to ninth in the standings and provided more evidence that he arguably deserves to be on the team regardless of whether he qualifies automatically or not.<\/p>\n<p>Arnold Palmer in 1963 was the last playing captain at the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n<p>World number one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/scottie-scheffler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottie Scheffler<\/a> has already secured his place in New York to take on the Europeans, with Xander Schauffele and US Open winner JJ Spaun set to do likewise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/bryson-dechambeau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> is in the top six of the standings despite competing on the LIV tour.<\/p>\n<p>There is work to do for Patrick Cantlay, who is down in 13th, while Jordan Spieth is 22nd and likely to need a captain\u2019s pick if he is to be involved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does qualifying for the Ryder Cup work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Half of the American side will be decided by the qualification standings, with the remaining six places on the team filled with captan\u2019s picks.<\/p>\n<p>The qualification process will conclude following the BMW Championship on August 17, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>LIV players are unable to earn points on their tour and so are relying on their performances in the majors to force their way into contention for automatic selection.<\/p>\n<p>They are, however, able to selected as captain\u2019s picks.<\/p>\n<p>(Players in bold currently qualifying. Q denotes already qualified.)<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Position<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Player<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Scottie Scheffler (Q)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>27,563.93<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Xander Schauffele<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>12,472.70<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>JJ Spaun<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>12,271.85<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Russell Henley<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>11,166.85<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Bryson DeChambeau<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>10,318.00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Justin Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>9,997.69<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>7<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Collin Morikawa<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>9,482.01<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>8<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Ben Griffin<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>8,432.91<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>9<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Keegan Bradley<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>7,845.22<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Harris English<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>7,666.53<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>11<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Maverick McNealy<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>7,126.46<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>12<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Brian Harman<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>6,521,26<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 39-year-old was a surprise selection as captain for Team USA and has made it clear he has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[11080,83247,4321,4288,13088,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-207376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-bryson-dechambeau","9":"tag-keegan-bradley","10":"tag-ryder-cup","11":"tag-scottie-scheffler","12":"tag-team-usa","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114732116627966457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}