2023 Ryder Cup teams: Scottie Scheffler, Patrick Cantlay lead USA side’s six automatic qualifiers

The top half of the United States’ 2023 Ryder Cup team has been solidified. The standings are now firm following the conclusion of the 2023 BMW Championship, which marked the end of the qualifying period for the American side. It will now be incumbent on captain Zach Johnson to fill out the rest of the 12-man U.S. team with six captain’s picks, all of which will come following the 2023 Tour Championship.

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler leads the U.S. Ryder Cup standings having leapt the field with his 27,617.735 points more than double that of Wyndham Clark (13,738.920). The next-most prominent name in the standings is Patrick Cantlay, the second-ranked American in the Official World Golf Rankings who holds the same overall spot there as he does in the Ryder Cup standings: fourth.

Let’s take a look at the six automatic qualifiers on the United States side.

Clark, Brian Harman — both major championship winners this season — and Max Homa will all be rookies representing America in Rome next month. Homa played his ay into the top six following strong appearances at both the St. Jude Championship and the BMW Championship to jump inside the top six.

“That’s been kind of my goal since these playoffs started, to get into that top six,” Homa said at the BMW Championship. “All that obviously takes some great golf. You’re playing against a lot of great players. It has been fun keeping that goal in mind because you’re competing against the best Americans, which is a tall task.”

Cantlay and Schauffele represent the most reliable qualifiers on the United States side other than Scheffler. Lethal together in foursomes, the two will embark on their second Ryder Cups after making their debuts at Whistling Straits in 2021. 

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