The European Ryder Cup team will launch a qualifying format for the next edition, which will be hosted at Bethpage Black (New York, USA) in September 2025. The two qualifying routes used so far by the DP World Tour, which is responsible for organizing the event on this side of the Atlantic, consisting of an exclusive European points table and another international one for of players from the Old Continent listed in the PGA, will be united. only one.
A change designed precisely to guarantee that the Europeans who managed to jump to the other side of the pond, in principle the strongest players available to Luke Donald (who will repeat as captain after a satisfying first experience in Rome), there are additional facilities to get one of the six places to be delivered through that table. The other six will consist of invitations and will be at Donald’s discretion. Something reasonable within this alliance between circuits that now includes ten annual cards for the best time in Europe that did not previously have a place in the PGA.
What has not changed is the absence of LIV in this new tool, which still does not include a method for militant players in the Saudi Super League to add points to their entry into the team, although everything shows that the peace between this organization and its American and European counterparts will be sealed between the rest of this year and the beginning of the next, and will definitely consider some kind of system for LIV with representatives of the biennial competition . Something that, on the other hand, has already been admitted by heavyweights like Rory McIlroy, who in the heat of Rahm’s signing for the Arab structure at the end of last year declared that the eligibility rules should be changed to open the door for him. . Additionally, any European from LIV is eligible as long as they have not renounced their DP World Tour membership, have played the minimum number of tournaments required each season to maintain the card and are up to date on payment of the fine. imposed each time they play an event without permission from the European circuit.
“This is a cleaner and simpler system than before, I thank Luke Donald and his vice-captains, Thomas Bjorn and Edoardo Molinari, for their contribution to the process,” said Guy Kinnings, CEO of DP World Tour, in the new system. The first tournament to distribute qualifying points will be the British Masters at the end of the month, and the window will remain open until the end of August next year.
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