Captain Luke Donald will once more select six wild playing cards for Europe’s Ryder Cup crew, with the six qualifiers for subsequent 12 months’s trophy defence taken from only one rating checklist.
Qualifying factors shall be earned utilizing a brand new event banding construction weighted in the direction of performances within the majors and largest PGA Tour and DP World Tour occasions, however LIV Golf tournaments stay unable to award factors.
The brand new factors checklist replaces the World Factors Checklist and European Factors Checklist which have been based mostly on world rating factors and Race to Dubai factors respectively.
Gamers should stay members of the DP World Tour to be eligible for the Ryder Cup, which means the likes of Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton must play 4 common Tour occasions this season to keep up membership.
Qualifying will start on the Betfred British Masters from August 29 to September 1 and finish on the DP World Tour occasion – but to be decided – which ends on August 24, 2025.
In 2024, the one place to earn Ryder Cup factors shall be on the DP World Tour, with factors earned in PGA Tour occasions solely counting from January 1, 2025, till August 17, 2025.
Donald mentioned: “I’m delighted to have the ability to verify the main points of the qualification course of for our 2025 Ryder Cup crew.
“Numerous work has gone on behind the scenes to get so far and all the pieces is now targeted on doing all we will to retain the trophy in New York subsequent September.”
PGA European Tour chief government Man Kinnings mentioned: “It is a main milestone second in our journey to the 2025 Ryder Cup.
“That is with out query a a lot cleaner and less complicated qualification system than those utilised in earlier years and we thank Luke and his vice-captains Edoardo Molinari and Thomas Bjorn for his or her very important enter over the previous few months.”