Thomas Bjorn Announces His Team Europe Ryder Cup Wildcards

Thomas Bjorn Announces His Team Europe Ryder Cup Wildcards
12:00, 05 Sep 2018

There are only 23 sleeps to go until the Ryder Cup gets underway at Le Golf National in France and European captain Thomas Bjorn will confirm his final four team members on Wednesday afternoon. Follow Bjorn's announcement LIVE right here at 2pm (BST) as he picks his four wildcards.

The eight automatic qualifiers for the European team to take on USA from 28-30 September have already been confirmed as Open Championship winner Francesco Molinari will line up with Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose, while the rest of the team are Ryder Cup rookies as Tyrrell Hatton, Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm, Alex Noren and Thorbjorn Olesen all make the final cut.

The relative lack of experience of the automatic qualifiers - Rose, McIlroy and Molinari have played 44 Ryder Cup matches between them - means Bjorn may well opt to side with experience for his wildcard picks.

Ryder Cup legend Ian Poulter will be a shoe-in and Henrik Stenson should be pretty confident, although Paul Casey and Sergio Garcia might count themselves a little fortunate if they are selected as a couple of young bucks have made a late charge for inclusion. 

Matt Wallace picked up his third win of the year with victory at the Made In Denmark on Sunday and he is being touted as 'The Ian Poulter' of the future for Europe, while Rafa Cabrera-Bello gave a timely reminder of his abilities with his top-ten at the Dell Technologies Championship last time out.

Thomas Pieters was Europe's top points scorer on debut when USA won at Hazeltine in 2016 and he would be a popular choice.

Follow the announcement LIVE here...

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