Team Usa Captains Picks

International captain ernie els made his picks on.

Team usa captains picks.

Love named the first two usa vice captains in june 2012 and announced the other two after the pga championship. 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. Each captain selected four vice captains to assist him during the tournament. She first inquired about changing the points system but when that didn t get far suggested increasing the number of picks.

Team usa s pat hurst lobbies for more solheim cup captain s picks. Captain steve stricker would pick half of his 12 man ryder cup team under a revised points system that accounts for golf not being played for three months during the covid 19 pandemic. 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. Team europe has six by.

Inkster believed in qualifying on merits. Team usa have changed their qualification criteria for the 2020 ryder cup and increased the number of captain s picks from four to six. Get the best prices and book a round at one of 1 700 courses. 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. Captains picks are shown in yellow. At the moment hurst has two captain s picks with 10 players qualifying. Michelle wie west is one of the team usa vice captains.

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. That didn t stop her from raising some eyebrows with her selections though. 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 captains were davis love iii for team usa and josé maría olazábal for europe.

Tim russell rounds out the captain s picks for team usa. Juli inkster who captained the last three u s. Congrats to everyone that made the team and go usa.