The three American players who are already being tipped to play in all five Ryder Cup sessions including ‘irritant’ who is like Ian Poulter

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The Ryder Cup is quickly approaching, with many golf fans tipping the 2025 edition to be one of the best and most exciting events yet.

The Ryder Cup will be held at Bethpage Black up in New York state this year, as Team USA try to wrestle the Samuel Ryder trophy back from the Europeans.

Team Europe were victorious in Rome back in 2023, and the United States team led by Keegan Bradley will be determined to win the competition for what would be only the fifth time since 1993.

Bradley could still actually make his own Ryder Cup team, having played extremely well this season.

And that would actually represent a big problem for the Americans – surely a captain cannot also play in the competition in this day and age.

That said, the USA have an incredibly strong top five players who will definitely be in the team come September.

Three Americans tipped to play in all five Ryder Cup sessions

Whilst the American team isn’t as strong from one to 12 as it usually is, Bradley will still have six of the world’s top 10 players amongst his ranks.

Scottie Scheffler leads the way for Team USA, and Brendon de Jonge believes the PGA Champion will be one of only three Americans who will play in all five sessions.

It has been a bone of contention in the past, when American captains have continued to use certain players in all five sessions, just because of their names and regardless of form.

However, in September, there are three players from the United States who are so good that it would be a big shock if they were left out of any particular session.

Scheffler is obviously one of them, but De Jong named two others as well, when speaking on The 5 Clubs podcast.

“Unless Bryson is playing unbelievably well that week, I don’t think he’s going to be one of those guys who will be a five-session guy. There are three guys on that team, maybe four who are five-session guys. I think Bryson would be one who sits at least one session. I would go with Scottie Scheffler, definitely, you make sure he plays, Xander the same. Justin Thomas for me is the American equivalent to Ian Poulter, he’s kind of the irritant. He wants to get in the faces of the opposing team, and I feel like he is the one who is going to get that Bethpage, New York crowd energy going. Justin Thomas is definitely one who I would play all five.”

The three players named by De Jong will most likely play all five sessions at Bethpage this year.

Justin Thomas and Xander Schauffele are ranked third and fifth respectively in the Official Golf World Rankings right now.

And they have both been there, seen it and done it before.

However, if Bryson DeChambeau is in top form, Bradley will surely want him playing in every single session as well.

Major concern for Team USA ahead of the Ryder Cup

Outside of the top six, there is a huge drop-off for the Americans.

Team USA have historically been very strong at the tail end, but that simply will not be the case this year, with a mixture of out-of-form players and potential rookies currently filling the seven through to 12 spots.

Much will depend on how well America’s top five or six guys perform at Bethpage in September.

If any of them are off their games, it may well be a long week, with Team Europe looking incredibly strong from one through to 12 right now.

However, the Americans are always hard to beat at the Ryder Cup on home soil.

Europe have only won four times in the United States in the history of the competition.

And with a vociferous and boisterous New York crowd behind Bradley and his players this year, the Americans will be confident of winning back the Ryder Cup.