European Ryder Cup Team Is Completed With Captain's Picks Including Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose

Luke Donald's team will try to extend a three-decade run of dominance in home Ryder Cups.

European captain Luke Donald rounded out his Ryder Cup team Monday with six captain's picks, selecting three veterans and three rookies in Tommy Fleetwood, Sepp Straka, Justin Rose, Shane Lowry, Nicolai Hojgaard and Ludvig Aberg.

Team Europe's automatic picks, locked in Sunday after the European Masters, were Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Robert MacIntyre, Viktor Hovland, Tyrrell Hatton and Matt Fitzpatrick.

The team will look to extend a three-decade dominance of European Ryder Cup teams at home; the U.S. last won a road Ryder Cup in 1993.

Here's a closer look at the picks:

• Tommy Fleetwood is playing in his third Ryder Cup; he made the cut all four majors this year including a T5 in the U.S. Open and T10 at the British Open. On the PGA Tour he lost the RBC Canadian Open in a playoff and was T6 last month at the Tour Championship.
• Sepp Straka will make his Ryder Cup debut and become the second Austrian to compete; he finished T2 at the British Open and won for the second time on the PGA Tour in July at the John Deere Classic.
• Justin Rose is playing in his sixth Ryder Cup at age 43, having enjoyed a renaissance season with a win at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. It was his 11th PGA Tour win but first in four years.
• Shane Lowry will make his second Ryder Cup start. He won the 2019 British Open and his most recent win was the 2022 BMW PGA Championship on the DP World Tour.
• Nicolai Hojgaard is a Ryder Cup rookie, a 22-year-old Danish player with three top-6 finishes in his last four DP World Tour starts.
• Ludvig Aberg is the third rookie on the team, fresh off a win Sunday at the European Masters. The 23-year-old Swede was the best college player in the U.S. in his last two years at Texas Tech.

The U.S. team was completed last week with six captain's picks, including Brooks Koepka of LIV Golf and a somewhat surprising pick in Justin Thomas, whose game has been off in recent months. The team's six automatic picks were led by world and SI World Golf Rankings No. 1 Scottie Scheffler.

The matches begin Sept. 29 at Marco Simone in Rome, Italy.