Dan Bradbury beats LIV Golfer to Ryder Cup Qualification spot with Open De France win

Dan Bradbury won the 2024 Open de France at Le Golf National on October 13 by one stroke over Thorbjorn Olesen, Sam Bairstow, Yannik Paul, and Jeff Winther. Courtesy of the win, he moved into the last automatic qualifying position for the 2025 Ryder Cup.

The Open de France, a DP World Tour Back 9 event, had 1500 Ryder Cup points. The biennial tournament will be held at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, New York from September 26 to 28, 2025.

Bradbury has moved to 6th position in Team Europe's standings with 274.95 Ryder Cup points. He won 250 points for winning the DP World Tour tournament, moving past LIV Golfer Jon Rahm who is ninth in the standings. After the win, he said (via Ryder Cup):

"It hasn't sunk in at all. The goal this week was to make the cut so I didn’t have to go to Korea, (needing to) keep my card. I remember looking at one point, playing with Gunner (Wiebe) and Joe (Dean), they were both two shots behind me and I was second and they were, like, 14th. Part of me was just thinking, 'Well, don’t drop a few!'"

"It was just, stay in it – we all know the finish round here, anything can happen, and it almost did," Dan Bradbury added.

The top six European players will automatically qualify for the Ryder Cup while the remaining six will be Captain's pick. Danish player Niklas Norgaard also moved to third in the standings after the Open de France. Apart from Dan Bradbury and Norgaard, Rasmus Hojgaard, Rory Mcllroy, Matt Wallace, and Tyrrell Hatton are the top six players in the line for automatic qualification for next year's Ryder Cup.

Here are the top 20 players in the standings:

1. Rasmus HØJGAARD (Denmark) – 399.03
2. Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland) – 354.07
3. Niklas Nørgaard (Denmark) – 351.5
4. Matt Wallace (England) – 350.5
5. Tyrrell Hatton (England) – 295.84
6. Dan Bradbury (England) – 274.95
7. Angel HIDALGO (Spain) – 269.17
8. Matteo Manassero (Italy) – 234.76
9. Jon Rahm (Spain) – 205.3
10. Alfredo GARCIA-HEREDIA (Spain) – 194.55
11. Tommy Fleetwood (England) – 185.63
12. Nicolas Colsaerts (Belgium) – 180.32
13. Grant FORREST (Scotland) – 158.7
14. Thorbjørn Olesen (Denmark) – 156.96
15. Yannik PAUL (Germany) – 154.52
16. Jeff Winther (Denmark) – 152.17
17. Jordan SMITH (England) – 142.4
18. Matthew Baldwin (England) – 125.92
19. Andrew Johnston (England) – 124.89
20. Sam BAIRSTOW (England) – 124.67

The qualification will end a month before the competition on Sunday, August 24, 2025.

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Dan Bradbury jumps more than 150 spots in golf rankings after the 2024 Open de France win

25-year-old English golfer Dan Bradbury won the 106th edition of the Open de France, held from October 10 to 13. He had his second DP World Tour victory in his 56th start.

The victory saw Bradbury jump 169 spots from 327th to 158th on the Official World Golf Rankings. He surpassed the likes of Alejandro Tosti, Pierceson Coody, Louis Oosthuizen, and Wesley Bryan.

Bradbury won €505,265.12 of the total €3.25 million given out as prize money at the tournament. He also received 835 Race to Dubai points and jumped from 98th to 25th in the standings.

Jeff Winther, Thorbjorn Olesen, Sam Bairstow, and Yannik Paul tied for second at the Open de France. Winther went from 252nd to 201st, Olesen went from 84th to 80th, Bairstow went from 239th to 188th and Paul moved from 177th to 146th in the OWGR. They all took home €197,202 and received 332.25 Race to Dubai points.

Matthew Jordan, who tied for sixth at the Open de France, jumped from 149th to 141st on the rankings and took home €96,594.80 with 162.75 Race to Dubai points. Francesco Laporta, who also tied for sixth, jumped from 411th to 337th.