Ryder Cup 2025: Luke Donald is wrong, players deserve to be paid

I suspect this will be one of the least popular posts about golf I ever write, because it’s so easy for the other side – the wrong side – to appeal to emotions, but there is a simple principle that applies here and is the bedrock of every argument I’m about to make.

Ryder Cup 2025: What’s the deal with players being paid for the Ryder Cup? A Q&A

The days leading up to the Ryder Cup are notoriously slow on the media side, so it’s little surprise one of the biggest talking points this week has been money – specifically, whether players should be paid to compete. Here’s a breakdown of why it’s become a hot issue in 2025, explained in Q&A style.

Leaderboard

Baycurrent Classic - 2025
Pos Player Tot Thru Rnd
-Beau Hossler--1
-Max Greyserman--1
-Naoto Nakanishi--1
-Matti Schmid--1
-Patrick Fishburn--1
-Kazuki Higa--1
-Bud Cauley--1
-Nicolai Højgaard--1
-Takanori Konishi--1
-Joel Dahmen--1
-Eric Cole--1
-Ryo Ishikawa--1
-Karl Vilips--1
-S.W. Kim--1
-Gary Woodland--1
-William Mouw--1
-Billy Horschel--1
-Max Homa--1
-Kurt Kitayama--1
-Emiliano Grillo--1
-Taylor Moore--1
-Xander Schauffele--1
-Wyndham Clark--1
-Alex Noren--1
-Ryan Gerard--1
-Joe Highsmith--1
-Keith Mitchell--1
-Sungjae Im--1
-Michael Kim--1
-Keita Nakajima--1
-Garrick Higgo--1
-Matt McCarty--1
-Kevin Yu--1
-Ryo Hisatsune--1
-Michael Thorbjornsen--1
-Taiga Semikawa--1
-Mark Hubbard--1
-Sam Stevens--1
-Takumi Kanaya--1
-Patrick Rodgers--1
-Danny Walker--1
-Kaito Onishi--1
-Alex Smalley--1
-Sami Valimaki--1
-Kota Kaneko--1
-David Lipsky--1
-Vince Whaley--1
-Mikumu Horikawa--1
-Satoshi Kodaira--1
-Rasmus Højgaard--1
-Ren Yonezawa--1
-Mac Meissner--1
-Kevin Roy--1
-Riki Kawamoto--1
-Min Woo Lee--1
-Nico Echavarria--1
-Adam Scott--1
-Sahith Theegala--1
-Lee Hodges--1
-Byeong Hun An--1
-Chris Gotterup--1
-Hideki Matsuyama--1
-Collin Morikawa--1
-Brian Campbell--1
-Davis Riley--1
-Tom Kim--1
-Aldrich Potgieter--1
-Austin Eckroat--1
-Matt Wallace--1
-Camilo Villegas--1
-Andrew Putnam--1
-Christiaan Bezuidenhout--1
-Sam Ryder--1
-Isaiah Salinda--1
-Taiga Kobayashi--1
-Rico Hoey--1
-Max McGreevy--1
-Tatsunori Shogenji--1
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