2025 Ryder Cup: Team USA player-by-player guide

Here’s everything you need to know about the USA team that will be looking to regain the Ryder Cup trophy from the visiting Europeans.

The talking is almost over ahead of what is an event like no other on the golf calendar. And this year’s edition has the potential to be one of the most memorable in the near 100-year history of the Ryder Cup. 

The teams look evenly matched on paper but it’s hard not to give the United States side the edge at Bethpage in New York. Keegan Bradley and his players will also be desperate to make up for what was a fairly dismal showing in Rome two years ago. 

Meet the US team that will attempt to wrestle the gold cup back and continue the run of home dominance.

Team USA player profiles

In no particular order (other than alphabetical), this is the USA team that will head to Bethpage looking to win the Ryder Cup back…

Sam Burns

Played: 1 (2023)
Matches: 3
Foursomes record: 0-1-0
Fourballs record: 1-0-0
Singles record: 0-1-0
Overall record: 1-2-0
Points: 1

Sam Burns made a fairly forgettable Ryder Cup debut in 2023, so there will have been doubts over his selection this year. He was supposed to be someone who could partner with his pal Scottie Scheffler and help get the best out of the World No.1 but the pair were well beaten in the first game out on the course on Friday morning in Rome and were never seen together again.

However, the 29-year-old has played well this year. He was in the hunt for a first major win at the US Open before also enjoying a strong late-season run, rising to the challenge laid down to him by captain Keegan Bradley with a T4 and a T7 finish in the final two FedEx Cup Playoffs respectively. 

Another quiet and unassuming character in the American team room, Burns will hope his golf will do the talking in New York. 

Patrick Cantlay

Played: 2 (2021, 2023)
Matches: 8
Foursomes record: 2-2-0
Fourballs record: 1-0-1
Singles record: 2-0-0
Overall record: 5-2-1
Points: 5.5

Although he goes about it in a different way, Patrick Cantlay has shown he is able to step up to the plate in a Ryder Cup. He isn’t as expressive and rowdy as others, but there is a steeliness there that makes him very tough to beat.

He holed a 30-footer late on Saturday evening two years ago in Rome to take down Rory McIlroy and Matt Fitzpatrick when the atmosphere was at its most hostile, sparking wild scenes that will live long in the memory.

It was a difficult first half of the year for the eight-time PGA Tour champion but a T2 finish at the Tour Championship was perhaps a sign that he is hitting form at exactly the right time. 

The sample size is small, but Cantlay has won both of his singles matches he has played and is undefeated in fourballs, making him something of an all-rounder and a no-brainer of a pick for Bradley.

He could be a real thorn in the European side. The question is – will he wear a cap?

Bryson DeChambeau

Played: 3 (2018, 2021, 2023)
Matches: 6
Foursomes record: 0-2-0
Fourballs record: 1-0-1
Singles record: 1-1-0
Overall record: 2-3-1
Points: 2.5

LIV Golf star Bryson DeChambeau managed to amass enough points to qualify automatically for the US team from just eight events. While not reflected in the official rankings, there is no denying he is one of the best in the world.

Love him or hate him, DeChambeau is box-office and brings something extra to every event he tees it up in. His first major win came at the 2020 US Open at Winged Foot when he outmuscled the golf course and his competition, before he lifted his national title for a second time after edging a titanic duel against Rory McIlroy by a shot at Pinehurst in 2024.

He drew a complete blank on his Ryder Cup debut in Paris in 2018 before finally opening his account at Whistling Straits in 2021. After missing out on the contest in 2023, he will be eager to put some points on the board for his country this year.

Harris English

Played: 1 (2021)
Matches: 3
Foursomes record: 0-0-0
Fourballs record: 1-1-0
Singles record: 0-1-0
Overall record: 1-2-0
Points: 1

A bit of a late bloomer, English has started playing some of his best golf more consistently. His swing has always been the envy of many but that hasn’t always translated into results.

He is a five-time PGA Tour winner, his most recent of which came at the 2025 Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. His record in majors has always left a little to be desired, but he finished second to Scheffler at the 2025 PGA Championship and Open, form that saw him move into the top 10 of the world for the first time.

Ben Griffin

Played: 0 (Rookie)

Ben Griffin’s journey to Ryder Cup selection is more interesting than most. After his career hit the skids just before Covid and through the pandemic, he got a job working as a mortgage loan officer. 

That could have quite easily been the end for Griffin, but after taking the break he needed, he returned to the game with a new lease of life. He climbed the ranks and it all reached something of a crescendo this year with his first two PGA Tour wins.

Despite dropping out of the automatic qualifying spots, he got the nod from Bradley and will now suit up for his first Ryder Cup.

“Four years ago I wanted to give up the game forever,” Griffin wrote on X, after being announced as a captain’s pick. “I have the strongest team around me that brought me back, and now I’m going to give it all to help this team win at Bethpage.”

Russell Henley

Played: 0 (Rookie)

Another player making his Ryder Cup debut in 2025 is Russell Henley. The 36-year-old has enjoyed a solid career to date but scooped the biggest title of his career in 2025 when he beat Collin Morikawa by a shot to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

That was Henley’s fifth PGA Tour victory, while his performances in majors have also been trending positively of late. He has five top-10s to his name, all of which have come in the last three years, and he was in contention for the 2024 Open at Royal Troon until Xander Schauffele turned on the style over the closing nine holes.

He does have some experience playing for his country, winning three of his four matches after receiving a captain’s pick for last year’s Presidents Cup, so can he reproduce that form at Bethpage? We will see.

Collin Morikawa

Played: 2 (2021, 2023)
Matches: 8
Foursomes record: 2-1-0
Fourballs record: 2-1-0
Singles record: 0-1-1
Overall record: 4-3-1
Points: 4.5

Collin Morikawa is another golfer who hit the scene like a freight train. After turning pro in 2019, the American wasted little time in picking up his first win at that year’s Barracuda Championship. He then went onto lift the Wanamaker Trophy on his PGA Championship debut and the Claret Jug on his first appearance in The Open.

He has nine major top-10 finishes from 24 starts but has suffered a slight dip in form this year. He missed the cut at both the Scottish Open and The Open, but did enough to make it to East Lake for the Tour Championship. 

That, along with his past accomplishments, convinced Keegan Bradley he was worthy of a captain’s pick.

The 28-year-old made his debut in 2021, winning three of his four matches at Whistling Straits and halving the other, before struggling to just one win from four at Marco Simone.

With some feeling he didn’t deserve a pick this year, he’ll be eager to prove the doubters wrong.

Xander Schauffele

Played: 2 (2021, 2023)
Matches: 8
Foursomes record: 2-2-0
Fourballs record: 1-1-0
Singles record: 1-1-0
Overall record: 4-4-0
Points: 4

The fairly quiet and unassuming character of Xander Schauffele belies the fierce competitor within, and although he had a slow start to 2025 that was impacted by injury, he appears to be edging back towards something like top form.

Schauffele was spoken of as one of the best players without a major to his name but that all changed in 2024. After an eighth-place finish at the Masters, the Californian rolled into Valhalla for the PGA Championship with a head of steam and put on a masterclass to pip Bryson DeChambeau by one.

Another top-10 finish at the US Open followed before he tamed Royal Troon to etch his name onto the Claret Jug and pick up his second major win of the year. That, to go with his Olympic gold medal in 2021, is already quite the career.

Scottie Scheffler

Played: 2 (2021, 2023)
Matches: 7
Foursomes record: 0-2-0
Fourballs record: 1-0-2
Singles record: 1-0-1
Overall record: 2-2-3
Points: 2.5

Scottie Scheffler has become a golfing terminator, drawing parallels with Tiger Woods for the way he ruthlessly devours tournament after tournament. He boosted his major tally to four by adding the PGA Championship and The Open in 2025 to his previous two Masters wins and it is hard to imagine he will stop there.

The completion of the career grand slam is surely only a matter of time and if he keeps going at this rate, he could easily hit double digits for major wins. That is a big if, of course, but you would be brave to bet against that eventuality.

Scheffler is also a two-time Players champion, having won at the iconic TPC Sawgrass in 2023 and ’24, so is there an arena that can adequately challenge the world’s best player?

Well, the only one that has come close is the Ryder Cup. In 2023 in Rome, the American was reduced to tears after he and Brooks Koepka were demolished 9&7 by Ludvig Aberg and Viktor Hovland on Saturday morning.

After a decent enough debut in 2021, he went winless in 2023 so will be out to make amends this time around.

JJ Spaun

Played: 0 (Rookie)

Although his PGA Tour breakthrough win came in 2022 at the Valero Texas Open, it was in 2025 that JJ Spaun really made a name for himself. He lost in a playoff to Rory McIlroy at the Players Championship before a remarkable triumph made it a year to remember.

At a brutal US Open at Oakmont, Spaun recovered from a poor start to his final round to conquer the treacherous conditions and sink a 65-foot birdie putt at the final hole to clinch a first major in the most incredible fashion.

It appears Spaun is here to stay and his consistently brilliant golf has seen him play his way onto the US Ryder Cup team for the first time.

It is a cauldron of pressure that has proved too much for some of the game’s biggest stars, so it will be interesting to see how he copes under the intense spotlight.

Justin Thomas 

Played: 3 (2018, 2021, 2023)
Matches: 13
Foursomes record: 2-3-0
Fourballs record: 2-1-2
Singles record: 3-0-0
Overall record: 7-4-2
Points: 8

He didn’t make the team automatically, but there were few surprises when Justin Thomas was named as a captain’s pick. The criticism that is levelled at some Americans for their attitude at the Ryder Cup certainly doesn’t apply here.

Thomas is a two-time major champion, a former Players champion, and although he endured a difficult 2024, he is back among the world’s top 10 where he belongs.

The 32-year-old relishes the atmosphere of a Ryder Cup and brings an almost unmatched energy to the event. He also might benefit from the absence of Jordan Spieth, who was like an anchor tied round his ankles in Rome.

The animated Thomas won’t be afraid to use the New York fans to his advantage, but how many points can he bring home?

Cameron Young

Played: 0 (Rookie)

The fourth and final – in terms of alphabetical order – rookie on Keegan Bradley’s team is New York’s own Cameron Young. He didn’t make the squad automatically but there’s no denying the 28-year-old is worthy of a pick.

He has been in incredible form, winning his maiden PGA Tour title at the Wyndham Championship before following that up with 5th, 11th and tied-4th finishes in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. 

During his late-season run, there were only three players in the world better than him according to Data Golf: Scottie Scheffler, Tommy Fleetwood and Russell Henley. 

Not only that, but he also has plenty of experience playing Bethpage’s Black course. He won the 2017 New York State Open there as an amateur – the first to do so, by the way – and he loves the test on what he describes as a “big-boy golf course”.

He ticks all the boxes and, if he can manage the nerves and expectations in front of his home fans, could be a real weapon for the US.

Team USA captain and assistants

The 12 USA players will be expertly led by…

Keegan Bradley

Played: 2 (2012, 2014)
Overall record: 4-3-0

After missing out on the 2023 Ryder Cup in agonising fashion, Bradley was named as the captain for 2025 in what was a shock move by the PGA of America. However, there are few Americans as passionate about this event as the 39-year-old.

Bradley has won eight PGA Tour events and became just the third man in history after Francis Ouimet at the 1913 US Open and Ben Curtis at the 2003 Open to win a major at his first attempt when he claimed the 2011 PGA Championship.

Off the back of that, he played in the 2012 and ’14 Ryder Cups, and although he performed admirably, he found himself on the losing side on both occasions. Such has been his form this year that there were calls for him to pick himself as a playing captain, which would have certainly added another interesting wrinkle to what is already going to be an unmissable weekend.

However, he resisted those calls for a variety of reasons.

And Bradley will be assisted by…

Jim Furyk

Played: 9
Overall record: 10-20-4

He may have lost an astonishing 20 out his 34 Ryder Cup matches, and been beaten as a captain in 2018, but Furyk has plenty of valuable experience in this tournament and his 12 points puts him 5th in the all-time USA list.

Kevin Kisner

Played: 0
Overall record: N/A

Captain Bradley has hired not one but two assistants who have no previous Ryder Cup experience. The first is four-time PGA Tour winner Kevin Kisner, who was on the victorious Presidents Cup teams of 2017 and 2022.

Webb Simpson

Played: 3
Overall record: 4-4-1

Simpson was never on the winning side as a player, losing twice in Europe and as part of the US team that was overturned at Medinah.

Brandt Snedeker

Played: 2
Overall record: 4-2-0

Brandt Snedeker has a sneaky good Ryder Cup record and will be looking to learn as much as he can from Captain Bradley as he prepares to take the top job for next year’s Presidents Cup.

Gary Woodland

Played: 0
Overall record: N/A

The other assistant with no previous Ryder Cup experience is 2019 US Open champ Gary Woodland – though he was part of the victorious Presidents Cup team that same year.

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