European Ryder Cup Captain Luke Donald has announced the 18 players who will make up the Continental Europe and Great Britain & Ireland squads for the Hero Cup (formerly Seve Trophy) in Abu Dhabi from January 13-15 .
In consultation with the respective captains of this Hero Cup, Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari, Donald has confirmed the squads for next year’s match play at Abu Dhabi Golf Club, with a remaining position for each team to be allocated at the end of the calendar year of the DP World Tour.
Donald and Molinari have built a strong team of multiple tournament winners, with Sweden’s Alex Noren and Belgium’s Thomas Pieters bringing their Ryder Cup experience to the continental European ranks.
Baptism for Straka and Meronk
Molinari’s squad will be complemented by a series of young players inexperienced at this level, including Austrian Sepp Straka, who won his first PGA Tour title at the 2022 Honda Classic, three-time European winner Rasmus Højgaard, or Adrian Meronk, first Polish player to win on the DP World Tour when he won the Irish Open in 2022.
Winner of the Dunhill Links 2019 and especially the Dutch Open this season, Victor Perez is also selected. He will be the only Frenchman in the running.
Belgium’s Thomas Detry also had a strong start to the PGA Tour season, finishing in the top 12 in three of five events – including a second-place finish at the Bermuda Championship – and finished in the top 15 on the DP six times. World Tour. He is joined by Guido Migliozzi, who claimed the biggest victory of his career in September at the Cazoo Open de France.
Seamus Power tested
The Great Britain and Ireland team, led by Tommy Fleetwood, includes 2019 British Open winner Shane Lowry and four-time Rolex Series winner Tyrrell Hatton.
They will be joined by potential new Ryder Cup players including Ireland’s Seamus Power, currently top of the FedEx Cup standings, and DP World Tour winners Ewen Ferguson, Robert MacIntyre, Callum Shinkwin, Jordan Smith and Matt Wallace .
Luke Donald, European Captain for the 2023 Ryder Cup, said: We all thought it was important to combine experience and youth and I think we’ve struck that balance with a mix of Major Champions and Ryder Cup players, as well as guys hoping to get a place in Rome. next year. »
Fleetwood, who teamed up with Molinari to collect four points from four matches at the 2018 Ryder Cup in France, also said: The experience of Shane Lowry and Tyrrell Hatton will be invaluable to the rest of the team in a match play environment, but we are really strong across the team. It will also be great to have Seamus Power with us after his great start to the season in America. »
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