Ryder Cup 2020 [Official Thread!]

Don’t rule out poulter . He’s inspired when it comes to the Ryder

Lowry is a certainty. If he's not automatic and needs a pick it makes it more tricky for Harrington with other players. But Lowry is in no danger of missing out, if he misses automatic qualification he's no.1 pick

What happens if Rose wins though? That would potentially knock Westwood out of the world points list along with Lowry (assuming Wiesberger knocks Rory off the euro list), then you have 3 from Garcia, Poulter, Lowry and Westwood.

I hope everyone here is right about Lowry. I just get a sinking feeling that everything is starting to line up perfectly against him.

Really hope I'm wrong.

Lowry is 100% on the team regardless of what happens at the weekend. If he doesn't qualify automatically he's had by far the best year out of the non-qualifiers.

He's as certain to make the team as Tiger was for the US in 2018.

Still all to play for even Pèrez is making a charge today, needs a top 3.

They ran through some of the scenarios earlier on Sky, but apparently because it’s the World points list, what Shane needs to do is also very dependent on what Westwood does too. Matt Fitz is also at risk it seems, in some scenarios.

It probably won’t be any way clear til late tomorrow, and Paddy might have some tricky choices. Personally, for the picks, I think Poulter looks very vulnerable. Imo it’s very hard to justify one for him purely based on past performance when he’s shown nothing all summer. If Sergio has already been given the nod, and Shane needs (and gets) a pick, Justin Rose finishing top 5 on Sunday would be hard to ignore. If Shane bumps Westwood out, it’d be very hard to ignore Westwood (current Race to Dubai winner) and pick Poulter over him. Bet Paddy wishes he had 4 picks now !

Poulter was poor in the last Ryder Cup when he got a wildcard. Shouldn't be picked.

Same applies to Westwood last time he played Ryder Cup. Wildcard selection and absolutely atrocious.

Don't see why either should be picked ahead of Lowry if it came down to it. Lowry is in better form and is also a major winner, which neither of them are in much longer careers.

Terrible back 9 from Lowry considering the position he had himself in after 9 holes. Too many loose shots.

Needs to birdie the 18th at a bare minimum.

I love Paddy, but I can't still for the life of me understand why he's continually intimated that Sergio and Poults are certs for the team????

Postman living off former glories, 2008 to 2012 were the 3 cups he was unreal.

This would be his 5th wildcard, Padraig has to let someone down.

So I’m pretty sure it’s safe to say that Wiesberger will qualify automatically at this stage.

think Lowry is a cert one way or another. Best form of all the potential bubble or wildcard players.

think Sergio is guaranteed a pick and have no issue with that.

think Rose needed to win this week to get a pick so that looks unlikely now.

while poulter is relying on past glories he has played pretty consistent this season with this week his only missed cut in 11tournaments and he was 1 under so hardly a great concern.

my worry at the minute is the form of Hatton, Westwood and Fitzpatrick to a less extent.

obviously a massive task to beat this strongest ever US team on US soil with no support but in 2016 the European team was much worse also and weren’t miles away from winning.

While I agree that Darren Clarke was a terrible captain, he didn’t even come close to matching the awfulness of Nick Faldo in 2008.

Westwood has collapsed anyway, back to -2

Yes, it looked like he was really going to put it up to Shane with the way he started. He's currently outside the top 56, which would mean no world ranking points for him and would allow Shane to pass him with a two way tie for 8th.

Regarding wild card picks, I've had a look at the total world ranking points gained by the top European players this year and the figures are as follows:

Assuming Wiesberger doesn't have a complete collapse this afternoon, 8 of the 9 automatic qualifying spots will go to those highlighted in green on the above list. This leaves either Westwood or Lowry in the final qualifying spot (or possible higher, if Shane does particularly well today).

I've highlighted both of these in yellow along with the other 3 players who are most likely to be considered for a wild card. It seems likely to me that unless Rose has an exceptional round this afternoon, he is going to be the one losing out.