Ryan Fox and Lucas Herbert unlucky to miss Presidents Cup selection
Ryan Fox – seen here when runner-up at the Irish Open, unlucky to miss selection – photo Getty Images
The upheaval caused by the switch to Liv Golf by the likes of Cameron Smith, Joacquin Niemann, Marc Leishman, Abraham Ancer, Louis Oosthuizen and others has created even further issues for an International Presidents Cup Team trying to find a way to be, at least, competitive against an American side at Quail Hollow later this month.
International team Captain Trevor Immelman’s already demanding task has been made even more so by the depletion in the ranks and so he has been forced to turn to some unlikely calls in terms of replacements.
The automatic qualifiers were Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im, Tom Kim, Corey Conners, Mito Pereira and Adam Scott, that group joined by Immelman’s selections Taylor Pendrith, Sebastian Munoz, Si Woo Kim, Cam Davis, Christian Bezuidenhout and K.H. Lee.
Unlucky not to have been selected are New Zealand’s, Ryan Fox, whose current world ranking has him in 7th place amongst those eligible for selection.
Fox has played sparingly of late and missed the cut at his last appearance at the European Masters last week but his form in June and July was first class and he can be considered unlucky.
So too was Australia’s Lucas Herbert who would have been 9th in terms of world ranking amongst those eligible for selection and a 15th place at his last start at the BMW Championship must surely have put him right in line for consideration as would several other good performance on the PGA Tour in 2022.
The task of winning the Presidents Cup for just the second time since its inception in 1994 just became that much harder for an International side that will carry eight Presidents Cup rookies into battle in Charlotte on September 22nd.
Lucas Herbert – a 13th place finish at the PGA Championship must have given him a chance – photo PGA of America
