Post-PGA, who is tended to Bethpage?

May is much too early for Ryder Cup hysteria, but it was difficult to stop from one Idea From intrigue when Luke Donald stepped on Thursday at the PGA championship with the clubhouse lead on the podium.

Donald was invited to the PGA field as a formality and answered questions in his availability of Wednesday Press 95 percent in his capacity as a European captain and five percent in his capacity as a player. When he reached the goal scorer with the lead of the first round, he was surprised.

But more than the score was what it was: with Donald it didn't even fight the euro captain was able to fight in a big moment in the early stages of 2025. For a second, a question stayed with Quail Hollow. Between Rory Mcilroy's Masters victory and the early seasonal tears, Jon Rahm's relentless top 10 run and Sepp Strakas Sunday duel with Shane Lowry won the euro everywhere. Was the blue and yellow wave of the swing of the early season ever Slow?

These concerns disappeared roughly at the time when Scottie Scheffler started his white Nike hat on Sunday evening on Sunday evening and won his third big championship with an anger in Quail Hollow. World No. 1 had returned to its lawful piece on the fireplace, and the storylines in September had changed again.

Four months are a long time in a professional Golf – time enough to change too much in Bethpage Black before the Ryder Cup in September. But the majors are an important point of contact in the march for the favorite team of Golf, and in this sense we take an inventory about where we are at half -time of the high season.

Scottie Scheffler: floors

The golf world reminded Scotties performance at Quail Hollow that it has an APEX predator, even if his interviews do not always show it. Scheffler's game suffocates and apart from something really wonderful, he will be the anchor of the US team. He wants great size, but his previous TeamGolf record was up and down. There will be a fire below it to prove that he is more than a single champion in September.

Rory McIlroy: Even inventory

There is not much precedent for the first big start after the career -Grand Slam, but it is probably fair to say that Rory McIlroy has just delivered the strangest of them. The newly shaped Masters -Champ spoke on Wednesday morning and failed a USGA conformity test on Wednesday afternoon and then never spoke to the press again on the way to an overwhelming 3 about the end.

Nevertheless, I do not put too much inventory in this performance. McIlroy was probably due to his spring tear for a certain common regression, and the first major after the Augusta National scene was always a goal for an emotional disappointment. He will be ready to play in September.

Bryson Dechameau: Update yourself

It is funny to think about Bryson's Ryder Cup candidacy, especially in view of the fact that in 2023 he was removed from the American side without much Hoopla when he initiated the depths of his fully struggle. Now it is impossible to imagine the USA without it in Bethpage.

This week, Dechameau was business as usual. He ended a somewhat quiet T2 in Quail Hollow and underlined his ascent to become one of the main championship of the golf world. On Sunday afternoon, he spent a large part of his press conference building a new golf ball to solve his iron and headed problems, which is slightly worrying about his recent game quality. Nevertheless, it is Bryson – I would be more surprised if he Wasn't Craft.

Jon Rahm: floors

Rahm's week started with a bizarre Ask the other Routine from He and Captain Luke Donald about his justification to stand on the Ryder Cup squad. Assuming that the DP World Tour (for its own good) finds out, Rahm is a castle for the squad. And if you are Donald, you have to feel good what you saw in Charlotte von Rahm this weekend. His game looked sharp, and for a moment on Sunday he looked like he could be the first golfer to pursue Scottie Scheffler.

It didn't happen, but Rahm was clearly inspired by his return to the great championship relevance this week, and the euros should be.

Sergio Garcia: Stock Down

It is never a particularly good sign if a player voluntarily decided voluntarily ErselF For the Ryder Cup team based on the current status of his game. That was the case at Sergio Garcia, who ended 7, T67, in a week that he really had to show Donald that he was a worthy choice for the squad.

Garcia made a glimmer of hope available at the beginning of the week when he mentioned that he would prefer the experience of choosing his duty plan, given the expectation of a crazy environment in the Volkslandclub. After the end of Sunday, however, Donald made a restriction available.

“Well, I said when there are two golfers Very equally matched Statistically speaking, Donald said to Golf.

Jordan Spieth: Stock Down

It seems impossible that Jordan Spieth under Patrick Reed is in the US Ryder Cup ranking lists, considering that the point system does not really offer a way for Liv players outside the majors. But here, after his last attempt to close the career Grand Slam, Spieth can be found with an MC at Quail Hollow.

Spieth has found a handful of top 25 surfaces since his return of the wrist surgery in January, but his swing conversion of “wet concrete” has not manifested any concrete signs of the past. He has to find it between now and September to secure a place on this year's squad.

Justin Thomas: Stock Neutral

Thomas played really good Golf this year. Unfortunately, he didn't play a really good Golf at the PGA championship, where he missed the cut in a somewhat disappointing fashion.

Thomas faded from his days as one of the undisputed top -3 players of the game, but his game has taken a long way from the depths that left him last year. A weekend in a major this summer would make a major contribution to the concerns of the captain Keegan Bradley.

Keegan Bradley: warehouse unknown

Keegan speaks of the captain: Keegan only climbs into the US Ryder Cup ranking and slides to 17th place after a T8 degree at the PGA championship. He said that he would only choose the team if he is qualified and is undecided whether he would hold the captain in this case. But if he always brings together good surfaces, we could be in a full-blown Ryder Cup constitutional crisis. (Can I admit that I am a bit rooted for it?)

Viktor Hovland: Buy now

Two years ago, the PGA championship in Oak Hill was the springboard for Viktor Hovland's coming out-party-one route, which took a dominant performance in the Ryder Cup, where Hovland looked like the third head of a three-member European monster.

The past 18 months were not so friendly in Hovland, who thrown Swing coaches like channels on the first weekend after the football season. A T28 finish does not quite “go back”, but in the past few weeks there have been signs of life from Hovland's game that left a lot of optimism for the rest of the summer.

Collin MorikaWa: stock mix

It seems banal to describe Collin Morikawa's performance this year armBut if you decided on a golfer for the first two events of the year, you would be difficult to choose more than five players about Morikawa who did anything but victory last year. Instead, he ended a depressed 4, T50.

My belly tells me that he will win a couple between now and the end of the year – his Golf was just too good to do it. But it is a crap, it was so difficult for him to this point.

Xander Schauffele: Buy now

Like Spieth and Scheffler, Schauffele's season started in February after an injury outside the season had forced him out of the competition. Since then he has recovered from the injury, an intercostal burden, and after grinding to make the cut on Friday, a final round 68 fired to finish at 1 under and recorded his delicate top 30 finish in a major.

He is not yet completely back, but when July walks around, I have the feeling that he will enter Portrush in top form.

Matt Fitzpatrick: Monitoring

It was a strange year for Fitz, whose TGL career after the Homerun derby seemed to send his swing in the way of a great bat. He entered the PGA week with its inventory, as low as it has been in the golf world for a long time, but a T8 end made it play a meaningful golf on Sunday. It leaves quail cavity with a little juice … and the second largest movement of a European Ryder Cup point holder (17 stains up to 39.).

Alex Noren: Sell (softball equipment)

Noren, the 42-year-old, who spent part of this season, to train his daughter's softball team while rehabilitating an injury, was the greatest shock of the PGA week. He joined the last pairing on Sunday and ended T17.

This may be the high watermark of his season, but on the other hand, it is a stone piston flower. We saw crazy things as an Indian summer from an aging European veterinarian.

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