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. 

Bryan Angus