{"id":27964,"date":"2025-08-25T05:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/noren-wins-at-the-british-masters-hojgaard-to-the-ryder-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:13:18","slug":"noren-wins-at-the-british-masters-hojgaard-to-the-ryder-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/noren-wins-at-the-british-masters-hojgaard-to-the-ryder-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Noren Wins at the British Masters; H\u00f8jgaard to the Ryder Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard secured the final automatic qualifying spot for the European Ryder Cup team by finishing in a tie for 13th place at the British Masters, a tournament won by Alex Nor\u00e9n this Sunday.\n\nH\u00f8jgaard needed to finish in a tie for 29th place or better in the tournament held at The Belfry to earn enough points and overtake Shane Lowry, who was holding onto the sixth and final spot on the European team&#8217;s automatic qualifiers list.\n\nDespite being overwhelmed by nerves, H\u00f8jgaard managed a final round of 71 strokes under par and surpassed Lowry. Nor\u00e9n, for his part, recorded 67 strokes, including a 7-foot putt for bogey on the last hole, securing a one-stroke victory with a total of 16 under par.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I don&#8217;t know what to feel, I&#8217;ve been very stressed on the course today. I was telling my caddie, I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;m going to be able to do this.<\/p><cite>Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nH\u00f8jgaard will make his Ryder Cup debut at Bethpage Black next month.\n\nAfter his round, H\u00f8jgaard received a call from the European captain, Luke Donald.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0824%2Fr1536126_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>&#8220;No s\u00e9 qu\u00e9 sentir, he estado muy estresado en el campo hoy. Le estaba diciendo a mi caddie, no s\u00e9 c\u00f3mo voy a poder hacer esto&#8221;, dijo Rasmus Hojgaard, quien har\u00e1 su debut en la Ryder Cup el pr\u00f3ximo mes. &#8220;Estoy encantado ahora mismo.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You&#8217;ve earned it, you belong, and I&#8217;m very, very excited to have you on the team.<\/p><cite>Luke Donald<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I know it was a stressful week, with many ups and downs, but you came out victorious and that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about. So you should be proud of yourself.<\/p><cite>Luke Donald<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nRory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre and Tyrrell Hatton had already secured the other five automatic spots on Luke Donald&#8217;s team, which will defend the Ryder Cup.\n\nLowry will now have to wait for one of the six captain&#8217;s picks to complete the 12-man team. These will be announced on September 1st.\n\nRasmus H\u00f8jgaard&#8217;s twin brother, Nicolai, competed for Europe in the 2023 Ryder Cup outside of Rome.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard secured the final automatic qualifying spot for the European Ryder Cup team by finishing in a tie for 13th place at the British Masters, a tournament won by Alex Nor\u00e9n this Sunday. H\u00f8jgaard needed to finish in a tie for 29th place or better in the tournament held at The Belfry to earn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1298,163,7327,410],"class_list":{"0":"post-27964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-rasmus-hojgaard","11":"tag-ryder-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}