US Ryder Cup Team Adds Familiar Picks With Fowler and Thomas. It Also Gets a LIV Player With Koepka

Rickie Fowler, of the U.S., plays out of a bunker on the 10th during a foursome match on the opening day of the 42nd Ryder Cup at Le Golf National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, outside Paris on Sept. 28, 2018. Alastair Grant/AP Photo

U.S. captain Zach Johnson wasn’t about to go to Rome for the Ryder Cup without Justin Thomas. And he made it sound as though Brooks Koepka was just as easy a decision.

They were among six captain’s picks announced Tuesday to fill out a 12-man American team that will try to end three decades of losing on European soil, all while setting up Johnson for the usual dose of second-guessing if it all goes wrong.