{"id":108012,"date":"2025-07-31T16:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108012\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:45:13","slug":"jordan-spieth-sees-playoff-path-to-u-s-ryder-cup-team-time-to-execute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108012\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Spieth sees playoff path to U.S. Ryder Cup team: ‘Time to execute’"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we near the start of the 2025 FedEx Cup Playoffs<\/a>, another event is drawing the attention of America\u2019s top-tier pro golfers: the 2025 Ryder Cup. Fan favorite Jordan Spieth is among them.<\/p>\n

The three-time major champion<\/a> is admittedly on the \u201coutside looking in\u201d in terms of making the U.S. team that will take on the Europeans at Bethpage Black in late September.<\/p>\n

But Spieth is not giving up hope yet, as he explained in an interview at the 2025 Wyndham Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spieth hopes to \u2018make good case\u2019 for Ryder Cup captain\u2019s pick<\/p>\n

Spieth is in North Carolina this week to play the PGA Tour\u2019s regular-season finale, the Wyndham Championship. While his place in the first FedEx Cup Playoff event is secure, he has some work to do to qualify for the last two playoff events.<\/p>\n


\n \"Keegan <\/a><\/p>\n

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\n Dylan Dethier <\/a><\/p>\n

But a streak of hot play would get him into the top 30 to make the Tour Championship. It could also accomplish another task: convincing U.S. captain Keegan Bradley<\/a> to make Spieth a captain\u2019s pick for the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

Spieth explained his thinking in an interview with Golf Channel<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if I\u2019m able to get on a good run and contend and have a few high finishes and maybe get a win or so, you know, I make a good case,\u201d Spieth told Golf Channel. \u201cBut I\u2019m on the outside looking in. And it was going to be a tall task off of my season hurt last year and starting late this year \u2013 it was just going to be a lot to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the task is tall, Spieth also revealed a few other reasons he might be a good captain\u2019s pick for Bethpage.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving said that, experience does help, and I\u2019ve got maybe some guys in my corner if I start to show that good things are coming. But you\u2019ve got some guys that were on the outside looking in that have already worked their way into the top 12 that make the American side look really strong and really difficult to make this late in the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it will all come down to how Spieth performs over the next month, as he reiterated in the interview on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike I said, If I\u2019m making a run through East Lake and making a run there, then I feel good about whatever happens,\u201d Spieth said. \u201cThat was my loftiest goal at the beginning of the season was to try and make that team, but it was a tall task. I\u2019m happy to be playing healthy, and now it\u2019s time to execute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordan Spieth on importance of finishing within the top 50 in FedexCup standings<\/p>\n

Prior to the 2025 Wyndham Championship, Jordan Spieth talks about the importance of a good finish at Wyndham and positivity for his game going forward.<\/p>\n

Where Jordan Spieth stands in Ryder Cup, FedEx Cup<\/p>\n

Spieth\u2019s current standing in terms of the U.S. Ryder Cup team and the FedEx Cup Playoffs is a mixed bag.<\/p>\n

Heading into the Wyndham Championship, he ranks 50th in the FedEx Cup standings<\/a>. That\u2019s good enough to make the FedEx St. Jude Championship (top 70) and, should he maintain his position this week, the BMW Championship (top 50).<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not good enough to qualify for the Tour Championship (top 30). Spieth will have to string together a few good performances to jump into the top 30 and play at East Lake.<\/p>\n

Spieth\u2019s standing was hampered by two factors this season. First, he missed significant time at the start of the season recovering from wrist surgery he underwent last August. Then he missed several weeks with a neck injury<\/a>. He revealed the toll that absence took on his FedEx Cup ranking in his pre-tournament press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I sat out I moved from 38th to 39th all the way down to 48th essentially just by not playing,\u201d Spieth said Wednesday at the Wyndham. \u201cSo it would be nice to have a huge boost this week and not have to worry about it next week, but I\u2019m fully prepared to have some stress next week on that 50 number, and ideally a good start this week or next week really takes a lot of that off.\u201d<\/p>\n

As far as the Ryder Cup goes, Spieth is in 27th place<\/a> in the U.S. team ranking. While only 12 players make the team, only the top six automatically qualify. The captain can select whatever players he wishes to make up the final six spots on the team.<\/p>\n

But Spieth would need to prove he\u2019s in fine form over the next month to convince captain Bradley<\/a> to pass up the 20 players ranked above him.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\"Kevin <\/p>\n

Kevin Cunningham<\/p>\n

Golf.com Editor<\/p>\n

As senior managing producer for GOLF.com, Cunningham edits, writes and publishes stories on GOLF.com, and manages the brand\u2019s e-newsletters, which reach more than 1.4 million subscribers each month. A former two-time intern, he also helps keep GOLF.com humming outside the news-breaking stories and service content provided by our reporters and writers, and works with the tech team in the development of new products and innovative ways to deliver an engaging site to our audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As we near the start of the 2025 FedEx Cup Playoffs, another event is drawing the attention of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-108012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114948861044884510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}