{"id":457389,"date":"2023-08-29T20:47:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T16:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=457389"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:48:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T16:48:43","slug":"koepka-and-thomas-included-in-ryder-cup-team","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/koepka-and-thomas-included-in-ryder-cup-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Koepka and Thomas included in Ryder Cup team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooks Koepka and Justin Thomas have been named among the six wildcard picks for the upcoming Ryder Cup and will join captain&#8217;s Zach Johnson US team.<\/p>\n<p>Koepka missed out on the chance to qualify automatically after joining LIV Golf last year, while Thomas was unable to qualify for FedEx Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Burns, Rickie Fowler, Collin Morikawa and Jordan Spieth are the other players selected for the match against Europe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Johnson has spoken \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <\/p>\n<p>U.S. 2023 CONFIRMED: <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udccd Rickie Fowler<br \/>\ud83d\udccd Brooks Koepka<br \/>\ud83d\udccd Jordan Spieth<br \/>\ud83d\udccd Justin Thomas<br \/>\ud83d\udccd Sam Burns <br \/>\ud83d\udccd Collin Morikawa<\/p>\n<p>See you in Rome \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DjZA5zSIF2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/DjZA5zSIF2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MYGOLFSPY (@MyGolfSpy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyGolfSpy\/status\/1696561319598608739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of time, lot of energy has gone into this process,&#8221; said Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very confident in these six [picks]. That confidence comes from simply surrounding myself with great people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are six guys who make the other guys whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ryder Cup kicks off on September 29 and will take place at the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club near Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooks Koepka and Justin Thomas have been named among the six wildcard picks for the upcoming Ryder Cup and will join captain&#8217;s Zach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":457392,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18667,16987],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[18668,21199],"acf":{"announce":"The two stars will join the US team for the upcoming event","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457391,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457389\/revisions\/457391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457389"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=457389"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=457389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}