Jon Rahm: Europe's Next Ryder Cup...Headache?

The membership question for Europe's next Ryder Cup captain and European Tour chief Keith Pelley may include Spain's Jon Rahm, a burgeoning talent who is saying all the right things. But he has made clear he will devote himself the PGA Tour while trying to get his career established.

That means an unlikely European Tour membership, putting him in the same class as Europeans like Paul Casey and Russell Knox, writes John Huggan from the World Cup in Melbourne.

“I’ve thought about the Ryder Cup a lot,” he said, after the Spanish pair combined for an opening foursomes round of 69, three under par and one shot ahead of the United States, France and China. “I so want to play in the matches; who doesn’t? But right now I need to establish myself on the PGA Tour. Hopefully, I will do that and make it into the top 50 in the world. Once I do that, I will be able to play in the eight tournaments that count towards the PGA Tour and the European Tour -- the majors and the WGCs. That is the ideal scenario."