“Jon Rahm will be in Bethpage in 2025, therefore, after this decision – signing for LIV Golf – the European Tour must rewrite the Ryder Cup qualification rules. I have no doubt about it, I want Jon Rahm on the team for the next Ryder Cup. This is how the best golfer in Europe, Rory McIlroy, is shining, after the Spanish player announced his signing for the circuit protected by the Saudi fund.
The Northern Irishman’s desire to compete with the Spaniard is the way the European Ryder Cup team is selected, which is based on the rankings and results of qualified players on the DP World Tour – the old European circuit – and the PGA Tour, but LIV Golf results are not counted. In fact, they don’t count in the world rankings either and that’s why Rahm dropped to tenth place in a few months, because he only gets points when he plays in the Majors.
Jon Rahm, Hundido
McIlroy’s wish did not come true. European Ryder Cup Captain Luke Donald announced the qualification and selection process for the 2025 Ryder Cup, to be held next year in the United States. And in this, Europe will select its players through a list of points that golfers can add to the ‘Grand Slam’ tournaments -the Majors-, the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour, but LIV Golf still not counted.
The European team defends the great victory achieved in Rome, in 2023, in an edition that is hotly anticipated because of everything that has been happening recently in the world of golf and the desire for revenge from the Americans, who will play at home, in Bethpage, New York.
Ryder’s selection begins in September
As announced on the Ryder Cup’s official website, the qualification process will begin this September at the Betfred British Masters, a DP World Tour tournament, and will end on August 24 next year. This new list of points replaces the previous one, when it was chosen by the world ranking and the Race to Dubai (European Order of Merit).
This whole process leaves the players of LIV Golf, where the best of Spain, Jon Rahm, Sergio García or David Puig, the British Tyrrell Hatton Tyrrell and Paul Casey, the Polish Meronk…
Added to this election system is that Players must be members of the DP World Tourso, despite LIV Golf, Rahm cannot leave the European circuit and must play a tournament to qualify.
Final Disaster by Jon Rahm
The only hope he has left is that Luke Donald saves six players that he will choose personally and in which he can include the Spaniard, who is one of the best golfers in Europe, as he showed in the last Ryder Cup.