(CNN)The USA's Ryder Cup squad was finalized connected Wednesday arsenic Steve Stricker announced his six captain's picks, which included three-time large champion Jordan Spieth and precocious crowned Olympic golden medalist Xander Schauffele.
The different 4 captain's picks for golf's biennial tournament, which gets underway astatine Whistling Straits successful Wisconsin connected September 24, were Harris English, Scottie Scheffler, Daniel Berger, and Tony Finau.
English, Berger, Scheffler and Schauffele volition each beryllium making their Ryder Cup debuts, portion Spieth, who volition marque his 4th appearance, and Finau were portion of the US squad defeated 17½-10½ by Europe 3 years ago.
"We're looking for the champion players to execute present astatine Whistling Straits and these six guys that we picked, we consciousness similar (they) acceptable Whistling Straits to a tee," Stricker said during a property league connected Wednesday.
Those six players articulation Collin Morikawa, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas and Patrick Cantlay, who each automatically qualified based connected points earned from performances implicit the past 2 years.
Patrick Reed, the 2018 Masters champion who featured successful the Ryder Cup squad that year, is the top-ranked American subordinate to miss retired connected a captain's pick.
"That was a very, precise hard call, I benignant of mislaid slumber implicit that one," said Stricker. "He's a tremendous competitor, helium brings a batch to matchplay golf, his grounds present astatine the Ryder Cup is beauteous darn good.
"It was a precise hard call, it wasn't an casual one. It was conscionable the uncertainty truly of his wellness and truly the deficiency of play that pb to our determination down the stretch."
Reed was hospitalized with bilateral pneumonia past period and returned to enactment astatine past week's Tour Championship.
USA has won conscionable 2 of the past 9 Ryder Cups, with this twelvemonth marking the 43rd variation of the tourney having been postponed from past twelvemonth amid the pandemic.
Jon Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood, Paul Casey, Rory McIlroy and Viktor Hovland person each earned automatic qualification for Team Europe based connected the satellite and European points lists.
Four much automatic qualification spots are inactive up for grabs, positive 3 picks from skipper Padraig Harrington acceptable to beryllium announced connected Sunday.
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