Ryder Cup Points Through January 20, 2020

Ryder Cup Points Through January 20, 2020

It’s a Ryder Cup year, and so begins the biennial obsession with the competition.

At this point, all the speculation is about who makes the team. The US team will be composed of the four highest ranked players on the points list, along with four Captain’s picks. Points are determined by earnings at PGA TOUR, WGC and Major events.

If the teams were picked as of this writing, the automatic picks would be Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Gary Woodland, Xander Schauffele, Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas, Webb Simpson and Kevin Kisner.

On the bubble are Patrick Cantlay, Matt Kuchar, Patrick Reed, Andrew Landry and Rickie Fowler. I have a very hard time imagining Reed getting a Captains’ Pick, so he will have to play his way on. The others would be solid picks.

Still, there’s a lot of golf to go between now and the official selections.

This year’s Ryder Cup is at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.

The current list of players and Ryder Cup Points Through January 20, 2020 follows:

Last Updated: January 20, 2020
Rank	Previous	Player	Points
1	1	Brooks Koepka	5647.29
2	2	Dustin Johnson	3527.46
3	3	Gary Woodland	2968.96
4	4	Xander Schauffele	2951.84
5	5	Tiger Woods	2464.66
6	6	Justin Thomas	1980.22
7	7	Webb Simpson	1872.79
8	8	Kevin Kisner	1673.25
9	9	Patrick Cantlay	1661.82
10	10	Matt Kuchar	1487.19
11	11	Tony Finau	1474.35
12	12	Patrick Reed	1279.74
13	71	Andrew Landry	1259.64
14	13	Rickie Fowler	1213.86
15	14	Jordan Spieth	971.37
16	15	Chez Reavie	963.55
17	16	Jim Furyk	884.21
18	17	Brendan Steele	741.84
19	18	Brandt Snedeker	592.53
20	19	Keegan Bradley	504.02
21	20	Bubba Watson	481.92
22	0	Scottie Scheffler	462.3
23	21	Billy Horschel	456.18
24	27	Kevin Na	443.77
25	22	Luke List	424.87
26	23	Charles Howell III	417.37
27	43	Tom Hoge	414.95
28	36	Andrew Putnam	411.91
29	24	Aaron Wise	397.93
30	25	Ryan Palmer	383.75
31	26	Lanto Griffin	361.5
32	28	Phil Mickelson	341.26
33	31	Chesson Hadley	329.83
34	30	J.T. Poston	318.61
35	98	Bud Cauley	317.19
36	29	Bryson DeChambeau	306.17
37	64	Ryan Moore	296.71
38	67	Sam Burns	283.58
39	41	Brian Harman	275.24
40	32	Collin Morikawa	270.35