European captain Luke Donald picks his 6 players to complete 2025 Ryder Cup team

 European Ryder Cup team 2025 for Bethpage Black course September 26-28.

There weren't any surprises at captain Luke Donald's press conference moment's ago as he announced his 6 picks to go with the 6 who qualified on their own.

Picks :  Jon Rahm, Viktor Hovland, Shane Lowry, Matt Fitzpatrick, Ludvig Aberg and Sepp Straka

Qualified : Rory McIlroy, Rasmus Hojgaard, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton, Robert MacIntyre.

>>>>Only the one change from the 2023 victorious team in Rome as Rasmus replaces his brother Nicolai Hojgaard.

The European squad have dominated the Ryder Cup at home for 3 decades now, however they have lost 3/4 lopsidedly most recently in the USA.

In Rome they won 16.5 to 11.5 with the largest audience in Ryder Cup history. 

A total of 271,191 people from 100 different countries attended the 44th Ryder Cup in person at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club in Rome, with millions more following the action from afar on television and digital platforms.

Furthermore, figures showed views of Ryder Cup official social media channels amounted to 197.6million, with a total of 26.7million interactions, contributing to the channels gaining 500,000 new followers.

The figures also showed notable increases across global broadcasts, with a rise in average viewership on Sky Sports in the UK of 38 per compared to the 2021 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits and 25 per cent up on the 2018 edition at Le Golf National, making it the most watched Ryder Cup on Sky Sports on record.

Donald has a month know to steer the guys with his assistants Francesco and Edoardo Molinari, Thomas Bjorn and Jose Maria Olazábal in preparation for these 2025 matches, something he has been working on, now fine tuning, for the last 2 years.

The DP World Tour has the Amgen Irish Open at the K Club this weekend, then their flagship event the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, September 11-14, two weeks before the Ryder Cup.

I expect the entire team will gather together and play in front of a cheering home crowd at Wentworth before flying out to New York the following week.

It has become 3 of the best days in all of sport, filled with passion, drama, triumph and disaster, beyond the wildest dreams of the English seed merchant Samuel Ryder who proposed this event and donated the trophy that bears his name, in 1926 with the first matches in 1927 at Worchester GC in Massachusetts. 

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Henderson rallies, Chinese Miranda Wang wins FM Championship.. Final results..

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Brooke Henderson has done her best this week after her heroic win at the CPKC Women's Championship and a 32 hole Saturday she has posted T15 71 68 71 67 - 11 to tie for T15.

Rose Zhang, left, laughs as Weiwei Zhang, right, of China, douses Miranda Wang, center, also of China, after Wang won the FM Championship LPGA golf tournament at TPC Boston, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, in Norton, Mass.

Asian women continue to dominate the top 20 scoreboard with Chinese, Miranda Wang 66 67 65 70 -20 the winner a shot ahead of Thai star, Jeeno Thitikul 2nd  69 68 65 67 -19 and Korean Sei Young Kim 3rd  65 65 71 70 -17.

Wang is the 7th LPGA Rookie to win this year, in fact there have been 24 winners in 23 events (one of them a Team event).

The Tour is off for two weeks before the Kroger Queen City Championship in Cincinnati.

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Thirston Lawrence wins 2nd Omega European Masters.. final results

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Thriston Lawrence became a two-time winner of the Omega European Masters after recovering from a disastrous start to post a closing 66 and secure a two-shot victory.

The South African went into the final round with a one-shot lead but made a bogey-bogey-bogey start to surrender his advantage and fall two behind.

With fellow past champions Matt Wallace and Matt Fitzpatrick now ahead of him, Lawrence had no choice but to force the issue and bravely took on the par-four sixth.

He was rewarded with an eagle there before firing five birdies in his next eight holes to open up a three-shot lead.

Lawrence's heart will have been in his mouth when his approach at the 15th flew towards the penalty area but he managed to save par before safely parring his way home to clinch his fifth DP World Tour title and a second at Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club following his 2022 triumph.

More to follow.

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South African, Lawrence leads Omega European Masters.. Sunday scoreboard

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Past champion Thriston Lawrence will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the 2025 Omega European Masters but has a stellar chasing pack containing more former winners just behind him.

With the tournament still playing catch-up following Thursday's lengthy fog delays, the third round did not begin until 3pm local time on day three and Lawrence only managed to complete 12 holes on Saturday before having to finish off his round on Sunday morning.

The South African, who won this event in 2022, started round three with a lengthy birdie at the difficult first hole before bouncing back from a dropped shot on the second with five successive gains from the fifth to surge into the lead.

He safely parred the tenth and 11th before firing a birdie on the 12th to reach -17 by the time play was suspended due to darkness.

Returning early on Sunday, Lawrence made another birdie from close range on the 14th to get to -18 and lead by one stroke ahead of defending champion Matt Wallace -17.

Two-time former winner Matt Fitzpatrick was another shot back on -16.

Lawrence said: "I'm very, very happy. I started with a nice long putt for birdie, which settled the nerves and got me going. Unfortunate bogey on the next but five birdies in a row after that - I'm really happy with the way I'm putting, hitting it fairly good.

There's still a lot of golf left and I've just got to try and do the same.

"The putter's been hot all week. I've made more long putts this week than I have in maybe a year. I've got a new putter in the bag, put it in last week for the first time and putted decent last week."

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Henderson T30, Chinese, Wang leads FM Championship...Sunday scoreboard

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Brooke Henderson was up at 5am on Saturday, 32 holes later after scores of 68, 71 she had a chance to get to bed, T30 -6 heading into Sunday as the FM Championship finally got caught up after a soaking on Thursday.

It was the same story for many others, however Chinese Miranda Wang only needed to play 18, and with a hot putter, she only used 24 putts to take command with a 3 shot lead at 66 67 65 -18.

Korean Sei Young Kim 65 65 71 -15 is T2nd along with part time pro Rose Zhang 70 64 67 15. World #1 Thailand's Jeeno Thitikul 69 68 65 -14 T4 with American Andrea Lee 67 69 66 -14. 

Asian domination of this tour continues with 12 of the top 15 women this Sunday of Asian descent. 

Play will begin for the T70 at 7.50 in Boston.

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Henderson to complete round 2 at rain delayed FM Championship.

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Friday was a long wet day in Boston, and for the LPGA trying to play this version of the FM Championship.

As a result of several stoppages, they are hopeful to get back on schedule by Saturday afternoon, make the cut, then send the players out in threesomes off split tee's #1 and #10.

As it stands this morning Miranda Wang managed to finish 36 holes with a clubhouse lead 66 67 -11 133.

Madelene Sagstrom 2nd, 69 66 -9, then Hannah Green 3rd, 68 68 -8, Azahara Munoz 68 68 -8, Celine Borge 70 66 -8.

They were in the early wave who managed to get finished. The cut as play begins is projected at -2

Brooke Henderson is in that group with Nelly Korda and Minjee Lee who only got to play 4 holes. So they are facing a long Saturday, possibly 32 holes.

Brooke opened with -1 71 and was E through her 4 holes before darkness fell. She will begin play at 7am this morning and if she makes the cut, round 3 is scheduled to begin at 12.30 pm

Savannah Grewal 73 72 +1 T97 will MC.

The cut is projected to fall at -2

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Frenchman Saddier, 36 hole lead, Cockerill MC at Omega European Masters...live Saturday scoreboard

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Edit >>> 9.45am ET...Round 2 is now complete with round 3 just getting underway at 1500hrs local.

Follow all the scores by clicking on my link above.

Adrien Saddier set the clubhouse target at -13 on the second day of the weather-affected Omega European Masters after firing rounds of 62 and 65 on a marathon day in the Swiss mountains.

The race to catch up following Thursday's lengthy fog delays saw Frenchman Saddier play 36 holes on Friday, having been unable to start his first round on day one.

After carding an eagle and six birdies in a flawless first round in the morning, Saddier returned to the course to add a 65 that contained six birdies and a single bogey.

With many groups still yet to begin their second rounds and many with holes to complete on Saturday where round 3 will not begin before 1430hrs local time, there is plenty of time for Saddier to be overtaken at the top before we reach the halfway stage of the tournament.

Defending champion Matt Wallace was Saddier's nearest challenger one shot behind after following up his opening 65 with a second-round 63 to reach -12.

Wallace's fellow Englishman Jordan Smith and South African Thriston Lawrence shared third place on -11 after 2 rounds.

Saddier said: "I'm pretty happy. It was a long day, to be honest.

"I got a good start this morning - the momentum was good on the first nine and then I just kept holing the putts.

"It was a good day and we like this kind of day. It was just nice to finish with a birdie."

Wallace, who made 15 birdies and three bogeys on Friday, said: "I had three great nines. I would put it that way.

edit >>> Canada's Aaron Cockerill had a forgettable 36 holes, between weather delays, posting 72 74 +7 some 20 shots off the lead, his next stop will be in Ireland for the Amgen Irish Open at the K Club. 

The cut is projected to fall at -3.

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