Team Usa Captains Picks

Inkster believed in qualifying on merits.

Team usa captains picks.

Team usa have changed their qualification criteria for the 2020 ryder cup and increased the number of captain s picks from four to six. Team will be made up from the top six in the points rankings with six captain s picks. Beth ann nichols tue 22 sep 2020 golfweek with the covid 19 pandemic shrinking the number of playing opportunities on the lpga solheim cup captain pat hurst thought changing the qualifying criteria for team usa might be in order. Tim russell rounds out the captain s picks for team usa.

Michelle wie west is one of the team usa vice captains. Love named the first two usa vice captains in june 2012 and announced the other two after the pga championship. Team europe has six by. Solheim cup teams wasn t a huge fan of captain s picks.

With the presidents cup a little over a month away this week the rosters for both teams will be finalized with four captain s picks each. Congrats to everyone that made the team and go usa. Each captain selected four vice captains to assist him during the tournament. The united states are currently planning to stick with the two captain s picks with eight coming from the solheim cup points list and two.

Get the best prices and book a round at one of 1 700 courses. Juli inkster who captained the last three u s. That didn t stop her from raising some eyebrows with her selections though. Captains picks are shown in yellow.

At the moment hurst has two captain s picks with 10 players qualifying. Better late than never for tim as he rounds out the choices for team usa. Team usa s pat hurst lobbies for more solheim cup captain s picks. Tim is 18 for 18 in cuts made has a 2nd and two top 10 finishes to go with a 65 2 scoring average.

The european team will comprise the first four players from the european points list followed by the leading five players from the world points list and completed by three wild cards. The captains were davis love iii for team usa and josé maría olazábal for europe. With the covid 19 pandemic shrinking the number of playing opportunities on the lpga solheim cup captain pat hurst thought changing the qualifying criteria for team usa might be in order.