After PGA, who is trending in Bethpage?

May is too early for Ryder Cup hysteria, but it’s hard to hint It was fun when Luke Donald entered the podium with the club lead at the PGA Championship on Thursday.

Donald was invited into the PGA field as a form and answered 95% of the European captain in his Wednesday press release, with a status of 5%. Even when he reached the scorer’s room with a first-round lead.

But more than the score is what it stands for: in the case of Donald competition, there seems to be no even euros. team leader In the early days of 2025, the ability to struggle to a large extent. For a second, this question hovers on Quail Hollow. Between Rory McIlroy’s Masters win and early-season tears, Jon Rahm’s relentless run, and Sepp Straka’s Sunday showdown with Shane Lowry, the euro won everywhere. It’s the blue and yellow wave ever Should it be slow?

Those concerns were largely gone Sunday night when Scottie Scheffler fired a white Nike hat into the turf at the 18th Green, winning his third major title in Quail Hollow’s rage. The First World returns to his legal work on the mantel, and the storyline before September has changed again.

Four months on a professional golf course is a long time – before the Ryder Cup held at Bethpage Black this September, time is enough to change the picture. However, the Grand Slam is a great touch point for heading to the golf favorite team game, and with that in mind, let’s take a look at our position midway through the main season.

Scottie Scheffler: Inventory

Scottie’s performance at Quail Hollow reminds the world of golf that even if his interviews don’t always show, it has a pinnacle predator. Scheffler’s game is suffocating and unless something really miraculous is something, he will be the host of the American team. He hopes to be great, but his team’s golf record has been rising so far. There will be a fire below him to prove that his September title is more than just an individual champion.

Rory McIlroy: Even stock

There aren’t many precedents for the first major start after a professional Grand Slam career, but it’s arguably Rory McIlroy just conveyed the weirdest of them. The newly cast Masters champion spoke Wednesday morning and then performed a USGA consistency test on Wednesday afternoon before never talking to the press again to meet three more than 3 matches on the way.

However, I didn’t invest much stock in this show. McIlroy may have some average return after the early pre-season tear, and the first major after the Augusta National scene was always a disappointing target. He will be ready to play in September.

Bryson DeChambeau: Inventory

Think of Bryson’s Ryder Cup candidate, especially given that he didn’t have much Hoopla in 2023, when he was thrown away a lot when the depth of his swing struggle was. Now, it would be impossible to imagine America without him in Bethpage.

As for this week, DeChambeau is doing business as usual. He finished some quiet T2s on Quail Hollow’s T2, highlighting his rise and becoming one of the major champion regulars in golf. He was talking about building a new golf ball to address his iron and northern obstacles during most of his press conferences Sunday afternoon, which was somewhat uneasy about the quality of his recent game. But it was Bryson – if he would be surprised no repair.

Jon Rahm: Inventory

Ram’s week from a weird one Ask another person He was in the regular season with Captain Luke Donald as he qualifies for the Ryder Cup roster. Assuming DP World Tour figured it out (for its own benefit), Rahm was the lock on the roster. And if you’re Donald, you have to feel good about what you see in Charlotte this weekend. His game looks sharp and in a moment Sunday he looks like he might be the first golfer to chase Scottie Scheffler.

This didn’t happen, but Ram was clearly inspired by the relevance of the return to the main championship this week, and so should the euro.

Sergio Garcia: Inventory

This is by no means a particularly good sign when the player volunteers don’t know how to choose Himself According to the current status of the Ryder Cup team. That’s the case with Sergio Garcia, who finished seven points in a week and he really needs to show Donald that he is a worthy choice for the roster.

Donald offered Garcia a glimmer of hope earlier this week when he mentioned that he would get crazy environments in People’s Country Club and therefore wanted experience in choosing a roster. However, after Sunday’s completion, Donald provided a warning.

“Okay, I said if the two golfers are Very match Statistically, Donald told Golf. “You need to have the current form and play at a decent level.”

Jordan Spieth: Inventory

It seems unlikely that Jordan Spieth will find himself under Ryder Cup ranking Patrick Reed, considering that these points systems don’t offer a path for liv players outside the Grand Slam. But that’s what Spieth found his career after the latest attempt at Quail Hollow’s MC.

Spieth has found some top 25s since returning from wrist surgery in January, but his “wet concrete” swing transition has shown no tangible signs of the past. He will have to find it between now and September to win this year’s roster.

Justin Thomas: Stock Neutral

Thomas played very well this year. Unfortunately, he didn’t play well in the PGA Championship, where he missed the layoffs in a disappointing way.

Thomas was one of the first three players in the game without a doubt, but his game was far from last year’s Presidents Cup team. One weekend will have a long way to go to ease Captain Keegan Bradley’s concerns at a major this summer.

Keegan Bradley: Stock unknown

Speaking of captains, Keegan has been climbing the US Ryder Cup rankings and ranked 17th after finishing T8 in the PGA Championship. He said he would only choose himself for the team if he qualifies and wasn’t sure if he would continue to be captaining in this situation. But if he keeps blending in good results, we will find ourselves in the Ryder Cup constitutional crisis. (Can I admit I’m kind of cheering on this?)

Viktor Hovland: Buy now

Two years ago, the PGA Championship at Oak Hill was a springboard for Viktor Hovland’s party, a continual Ryder Cup dominant game where Hovland looked like third in three European monsters.

Not so kind to Hofland for the last 18 months or so, who flipped a swing coach like the channel on the first weekend after the football season. The T28 score isn’t exactly screaming “Back”, but in recent weeks, Hovland’s game has shown signs of life and is full of optimism for the rest of the summer.

Collin Morikawa: Stock Dipping sauce

It seems a pity to say Collin Morikawa’s performance this year Poorhowever, if you choose a golfer to win a big title in the first two events of the year, you will have a hard time picking more than five players, and Morikawa has done everything except last year’s win. Instead, he finished a frustrated 4 on the T50.

My intuition tells me that he will win a bunch between the end of this year and the end of the year – his golf is so good. But this was really hard for him.

Xander Schauffele: Buy Now

Like Spieth and Scheffler, Schauffele’s season began in February, with an offseason injury forcing him to quit. He has since recovered from his injury, pressure between the ribs, and after honing on Friday, he drove the final round of 68, ending with one shot and recording his top 30 in the Grand Slam.

He hasn’t been fully back yet, but by July’s approaching, I feel like he’ll be in Portrush in peak form.

Matt Fitzpatrick: Monitoring

It was a weird year for Fitz, and his TGL career seemed to have made his swing a great batsman after a home run derby. His stocks entering PGA week were as low as stocks in the golf world for a long time, but the T8 scored him to play some meaningful golf on Sunday. He left some juice of quail hollows…and any European Ryder Cup Points Holder (17 positions, to No. 39).

Alex Noren: For Sale (Softball Equipment)

Noren, 42, coaches his daughter’s softball team most of the season when he is injured, the biggest shock of the PGA week. He entered Sunday in the final pairing and finished T17.

It might be the high water mark of his season, but then again, he is a rock rinse. We’re seeing things that are crazier than the Indian summers from aging European veterinarians in Europe.

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