European Ryder Cup standings: Who is going to Bethpage Black?
European Ryder Cup qualification: Find out which players are in line to qualify for Luke Donald's team at Bethpage Black in New York.
The 2025 European Ryder Cup team is beginning to take shape.
Qualifying for Luke Donald's side began at the British Masters and will conclude at a TBC DP World Tour event in August.
Six players will qualify automatically for Donald's team.
The Englishman - as ever - will also have six captain's picks.
At this stage of the season, Donald will be thrilled with how European players are performing on the PGA and DP World Tour.
Two major championships have been completed and one of them was won by Rory McIlroy.
McIlroy finally ended his 10-year wait for a major championship victory by breaking through at the 2025 Masters.
Victory also meant that McIlroy fulfilled his childhood ambition of completing the career grand slam.
McIlroy will once again be the talisman for Team Europe when they head to Bethpage Black in September and he has a comfortable lead at the top of the standings.
That is because McIlroy also racked up PGA Tour titles at Pebble Beach and TPC Sawgrass before he won at Augusta.
Donald has also seen several members of his 2023 team win in 2025.
Sepp Straka, Ludvig Aberg and Viktor Hovland have all stepped into the winner's circle and it's only May.
Austria's Straka captured his second win of the 2025 campaign at the Truist Championship after seeing off a challenge from Shane Lowry.
Straka's win - which he described as the 'biggest' of his career to date - saw him vault up the standings into fifth ahead of England's Justin Rose.
Elsewhere, Rasmus Hojgaard, Tommy Fleetwood, Thomas Detry and Aberg are inside the top-10 in the standings.
Are LIV Golf players allowed to compete at the Ryder Cup?
LIV recruits Tyrrell Hatton and Jon Rahm have been fined and suspended by the DP World Tour for competing on the breakaway.
Both players have appealed their fines and it is understood their cases won't be heard until after the conclusion of the 2025 matches on the outskirts of New York.
Therefore, it seems more than likely that Hatton and Rahm will feature on the 2025 European Ryder Cup team.
Hatton has been playing well on LIV and also fared well at the first men's major of the year, finishing in a share for 14th at Augusta National.
The fiery Englishman also won the Dubai Desert Classic in January.
Rahm has been a top-10 machine in the LIV Golf League in 2025 and finished in the same position as Hatton at the 2025 Masters.
Donald will be even more pleased, though, that Rahm was a factor at the PGA Championship.
Rahm drew level with eventual champion Scottie Scheffler with eight holes to play but collapsed down the stretch at Quail Hollow.
Still, Rahm was delighted that he had his first chance to win a major since his move to LIV in December 2023.
GolfMagic has listed the current European Ryder Cup standings below and will update this page on a weekly basis.
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*Last updated 22 May 2025
Position | Player name | Total points |
1 | Rory McIlroy | 2981.7 |
2 | Shane Lowry | 1124.18 |
3 | Rasmus Højgaard | 1034.03 |
4 | Tyrrell Hatton | 1004.05 |
5 | Sepp Straka | 942.73 |
6 | Justin Rose | 870.04 |
7 | Tommy Fleetwood | 844.83 |
8 | Ludvig Åberg | 819.15 |
9 | Thomas Detry | 650.29 |
10 | Matt Wallace | 637.52 |
11 | Niklas Norgaard | 607.93 |
12 | Viktor Hovland | 541.06 |
13 | Thorbjørn Olesen | 540.55 |
14 | Laurie Canter | 520.62 |
15 | Robert MacIntyre | 519.25 |
16 | Aaron Rai | 511.08 |
17 | Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen | 502.2 |
18 | Jorge Campillo | 480.92 |
19 | Jordan Smith | 475.88 |
20 | Paul Waring | 465.13 |
21 | Antoine Rozner | 461.48 |
22 | John Parry | 460.55 |
23 | Julien Guerrier | 423.85 |
24 | Jon Rahm | 416.06 |
25 | Marco Penge | 372.93 |
View full rankings here.
How does qualifying for the 2025 European Ryder Cup team work?
The European Ryder Cup qualification process for the 2025 team has been simplified compared to previous editions.
Here's how it works:
Ryder Cup points list
Instead of the former two-list system (European and world points lists), there is now a single list.
Players earn points by competing in specific tournaments based on a new ranking structure.
Here's how that looks:
Tournament | Points available |
Majors | 5,000 |
2025 PGA Tour signature events | 3,000 |
DP World Tour Rolex Series events | 2,000 |
DP World Tour 'Back 9' events | 1,500 |
DP World Tour 'Global Series' events | 1,000 |
2025 PGA Tour 'Opposite Field' events | 1,000 |
Qualification period
Qualification began on 29 August at the British Masters.
It will end next August at a TBC DP World Tour event.
Team composition
The European Ryder Cup team will consist of six automatic qualifiers from the points list as well as six captain's picks.
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