They announced the teams for the Hero Cup and against the odds there were no Spaniards

The European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donaldannounced this Monday the 18 players, of which there are no Spaniards -nor Jon Rahm, predictable, by Adri Arnaus, by Pablo Larrazábal, by Adrián Otaegui-, which will consist of groups of Continental Europe and Great Britain and Ireland for HeroCup next year at Abu Dhabi (January 13-15). This competition, which will serve as a test for September’s Ryder Cup in Rome, replaces those that were lost Seven Trophies.

In consultation with the respective Hero Cup captains, Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinariwho will compete as player-captains, Donald has confirmed the teams for the match play event at Abu Dhabi Golf Club, with one remaining spot for each team to be allocated at the end of the DP World Tour calendar year (following tournament) .from Mauritius).

In Continental Europe it is the Swede Alex Noren and the Belgian Thomas Pieters who bring Ryder Cup experience, and the team will be completed by a series of young players such as the Austrian Sepp Straka, who won his first PGA Tour title in The Honda Classic in 2022 , three-time DP World Tour winner Rasmus Højgaard, two-time winner Víctor Pérez and Adrian Meronk, who became the first Polish player to win on the DP World Tour when he claimed the 2022 Irish Open. Thomas Detry has also enjoyed a strong start to his rookie season on the PGA Tour, finishing in the top 12 in three of the five events played – including second at the Bermuda Championship – and with six top-15s at the DP. World Tour. He is joined by three-time DP World Tour winner Guido Migliozzi, who scored the biggest victory of his career in September at the French Open.

The Great Britain and Ireland team, led by two-time Ryder Cup player Fleetwood, counts 2019 British Open champion Shane Lowry and four-time Rolex Series winner Tyrrell Hatton among their ranks. range. They will be joined by a host of Ryder Cup hopefuls including Ireland’s Séamus Power, who has enjoyed an impressive start to the 2023 PGA Tour season and currently leads the FedEx Cup standings, and DP World Tour winners Ewen Ferguson, Robert MacIntyre, Callum Shinkwin , Jordan Smith and Matt Wallace.

As for the most relevant absences, beyond Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm or Matthew Fitzpatrick, who entered all the calculations, the presence of Viktor Hovland and the Spaniards Adri Arnaus and Pablo Larrazábal are missing, two golfer to enter all the pools to be. in the continental European team. If you look at the world ranking, behind Arnaus and Larrazábal and included in the Hero Cup are Callum Shinkwin, Guido Migliozzi, Victor Perez, Rasmus Højgaard and Ewen Ferguson.