A capsule look at the 12 players on the U.S. team for the Ryder Cup matches Sept. 26-28 at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, New York (listed in order they made the team):
Age: 29.
World ranking: 1.
Ryder Cup record: 2-2-3.
Career victories: 22.
2025 victories: The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, PGA Championship, Memorial, British Open, BMW Championship, Procore Championship.
Majors: Masters (2022, 2024), PGA Championship (2025), British Open (2025).
Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup partners: Bryson DeChambeau, Sam Burns, Brooks Koepka, Russell Henley, Collin Morikawa.
Ryder Cup moment: Starting with four straight birdies to go 4 up on Jon Rahm in a 4-and-3 victory at Whistling Straits in 2021.
Backspin: His dominance was pronounced even greater than last year. Scheffler has won six times (no one else has more than two on the PGA Tour) with two majors. He hasn't finished out of the top 10 since March.
Age: 35.
World ranking: 7.
Ryder Cup record: 0-0-0.
Career victories: 2.
2025 victories: U.S. Open.
Majors: U.S. Open (2025).
Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup partners: First appearance.
Ryder Cup moment: Winning the U.S. Open to effectively clinch his spot on his first team.
Backspin: He makes his Ryder Cup debut in the year he won the U.S. Open. Often overlooked is that Spaun also finished one shot out of a playoff in the Sony Open and lost in a three-hole playoff at The Players Championship.
Age: 31.
World ranking: 3.
Ryder Cup record: 4-4-0.
Career victories: 10.
2025 victories: None.
Majors: PGA Championship (2024), British Open (2024).
Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup partners: Patrick Cantlay, Tony Finau, Dustin Johnson, Collin Morikawa.
Ryder Cup moment: The cigar clenched between his teeth after the American rout at Whistling Straits in 2021.
Backspin: Schauffele might be the biggest American concern. Coming off a double major year, he had a rib injury that kept him out for two months at the start of the year. He made every cut for the third straight year, but he rarely contended and failed to reach the Tour Championship.
Age: 36.
World ranking: 4.
Ryder Cup record: 0-0-0.
Career victories: 5.
2025 victories: Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Majors: None.
Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup partners: Scottie Scheffler.
Ryder Cup moment: Making his first team one year after his Presidents Cup debut.
Backspin: His big win was the Arnold Palmer Invitational. He also was runner-up in the Travelers Championship and Tour Championship, and he had seven other top 10s in his most impressive season. He paired well with Scheffler at Royal Montreal last year.
Age: 36.
World ranking: 10.
Ryder Cup record: 1-2-0.
Career victories: 5.
2025 victories: Farmers Insurance Open.
Majors: None.
Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup partners: Tony Finau.
Ryder Cup moment: Teaming with Tony Finau to take down Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry in his debut match at Whistling Straits.
Backspin: English won at Torrey Pines in January. He was remembered as much for being runner-up to Scheffler in the PGA Championship and British Open. Both his Ryder Cups will be in front of a home crowd.
Age: 32.
World ranking: 21.
Ryder Cup record: 2-3-1.
Career victories: 13.
2025 victories: LIV Golf Korea.
Majors: U.S. Open (2020, 2024).
Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup partners: Scottie Scheffler, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Tony Finau.
Ryder Cup moment: Driving the green on the par-4 opening hole at Whistling Straits and beating Sergio Garcia.
Backspin: He won only once in LIV Golf. He was in the last group with Rory McIlroy at the Masters and challenged Scheffler at the PGA Championship. To get one of the six qualifying spots in only eight counting events (the majors) speaks to his level of play.
Age: 32.
World ranking: 5.
Ryder Cup record: 7-4-2.
Career victories: 16.
2025 victories: RBC Heritage.
Majors: PGA Championship (2017, 2022).
Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup partners: Jordan Spieth, Patrick Cantlay, Tiger Woods, Rickie Fowler, Daniel Berger.
Ryder Cup moment: Chugging a beer before a delirious crowd on the first tee at Whistling Straits in 2021 in the one session he didn't play.
Backspin: He is the veteran of this U.S. team by playing in his fourth Ryder Cup. He also has been the most emotional of the American players. He has a winning record despite playing on only one winning team.
Age: 28.
World ranking: 8.
Ryder Cup record: 4-3-1.
Career victories: 7.
2025 victories: None.
Majors: PGA Championship (2020), British Open (2021).
Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup partners: Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele, Sam Burns, Cameron Young, Sahith Theegala, Scottie Scheffler.
Ryder Cup moment: Getting the clinching point in his Ryder Cup debut at Whistling Straits in 2021.
Backspin: Morikawa had two chances to win early in the year at Kapalua and Bay Hill. Since then, he has only two top 10s. He has gone nearly two years since his last trophy.
Age: 29.
World ranking: 13.
Ryder Cup record: 0-0-0.
Career victories: 2.
2025 victories: Zurich Classic (with Andrew Novak), Charles Schwab Challenge.
Majors: None.
Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup partners: First appearance.
Ryder Cup moment: Finishing at No. 9 in the standings to become a captain's pick.
Backspin: Griffin had just left his job as a mortgage loan officer the last time the Ryder Cup was played in the United States. He won the team event in New Orleans and won on his own at Colonial. He also was runner-up twice to Scottie Scheffler, both times putting up a good fight.
Age: 28.
World ranking: 20.
Ryder Cup record: 0-0-0.
Career victories: 1.
2025 victories: Wyndham Championship.
Majors: None.
Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup partners: Collin Morikawa, Kevin Kisner.
Ryder Cup moment: Disappointment at being left off the 2023 team after finishing ninth on the points list.
Backspin: Young grew up in New York and made it a goal to be on the team for Bethpage Black when he was in high school. He won the New York Open at Bethpage in 2017. His first win was followed by four straight finishes at 11th or better against strong fields.
Age: 33.
World ranking: 22.
Ryder Cup record: 5-2-1.
Career victories: 8.
2025 victories: None.
Majors: None.
Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup partners: Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Wyndham Clark, Sam Burns.
Ryder Cup moment: Holing a 45-foot putt in Rome to win a fourballs match with the gallery taunting him for not wearing a hat.
Backspin: Cantlay has endured a mediocre season by his standards, but he was runner-up at the Tour Championship that locked up a pick. He is known for his clutch putting, particularly in the last Ryder Cup and at the Presidents Cup last year.
Age: 29.
World ranking: 23.
Ryder Cup record: 1-2-0.
Career victories: 5.
2025 victories: None.
Majors: None.
Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup partners: Billy Horschel, Scottie Scheffler, Patrick Cantlay, Collin Morikawa.
Ryder Cup moment: Teaming with Morikawa for his lone Ryder Cup points.
Backspin: While it's hard to decipher, Burns likely secured his spot on the team when Keegan Bradley decided not to be a playing captain. He is among the best putters on the PGA Tour and he had a solid run through the tail end of the PGA Tour postseason.
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This combo of files photos shows the United States Ryder cup golf team, from top left, Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay, Bryson DeChambeau,, Harris English, Ben Griffin and Russell Henley, bottom row from left, Collin Morikawa, Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler, J.J. Spaun, Justin Thomas and Cameron Young. (AP Photo/File)
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban soldiers wearing white gloves marched out of a plane on Thursday carrying urns with the remains of the 32 Cuban officers killed during a stunning U.S. attack on Venezuela as trumpets and drums played solemnly at Havana's airport.
Nearby, thousands of Cubans lined one of Havana’s most iconic streets to await the bodies of colonels, lieutenants, majors and captains as the island remained under threat by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The soldiers' shoes clacked as they marched stiff-legged into the headquarters of the Ministry of the Armed Forces, next to Revolution Square, with the urns and placed them on a long table next to the pictures of those killed so people could pay their respects.
Thursday’s mass funeral was only one of a handful that the Cuban government has organized in almost half a century.
Hours earlier, state television showed images of more than a dozen wounded people described as “combatants” accompanied by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez arriving Wednesday night from Venezuela. Some were in wheelchairs.
Those injured and the remains of those killed arrived as tensions grow between Cuba and the U.S., with Trump recently demanding that the Caribbean country make a deal with him before it is “too late.” He did not explain what kind of deal.
Trump also has said that Cuba will no longer live off Venezuela's money and oil. Experts warn that the abrupt end of oil shipments could be catastrophic for Cuba, which is already struggling with serious blackouts and a crumbling power grid.
Officials unfurled a massive flag at Havana's airport as President Miguel Díaz-Canel, clad in military garb as commander of Cuba's Armed Forces, stood silent next to former President Raúl Castro, with what appeared to be the relatives of those killed looking on nearby.
Cuban Interior Minister Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casa said Venezuela was not a distant land for those killed, but a “natural extension of their homeland.”
“The enemy speaks to an audience of high-precision operations, of troops, of elites, of supremacy,” Álvarez said in apparent reference to the U.S. “We, on the other hand, speak of faces, of families who have lost a father, a son, a husband, a brother.”
Álvarez called those slain “heroes,” saying that they were an example of honor and “a lesson for those who waver.”
“We reaffirm that if this painful chapter of history has demonstrated anything, it is that imperialism may possess more sophisticated weapons; it may have immense material wealth; it may buy the minds of the wavering; but there is one thing it will never be able to buy: the dignity of the Cuban people,” he said.
Thousands of Cubans lined a street where motorcycles and military vehicles thundered by with the remains of those killed.
“They are people willing to defend their principles and values, and we must pay tribute to them,” said Carmen Gómez, a 58-year-old industrial designer, adding that she hopes no one invades given the ongoing threats.
When asked why she showed up despite the difficulties Cubans face, Gómez replied, “It’s because of the sense of patriotism that Cubans have, and that will always unite us.”
Cuba recently released the names and ranks of 32 military personnel — ranging in age from 26 to 60 — who were part of the security detail of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during the raid on his residence on January 3. They included members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior, the island’s two security agencies.
Cuban and Venezuelan authorities have said that the uniformed personnel were part of protection agreements between the two countries.
A demonstration was planned for Friday across from the U.S. Embassy in an open-air forum known as the Anti-Imperialist Tribune. Officials have said they expect the demonstration to be massive.
“People are upset and hurt. There’s a lot of talk on social media; but many do believe that the dead are martyrs” of a historic struggle against the United States, analyst and former diplomat Carlos Alzugaray told The Associated Press.
In October 1976, then-President Fidel Castro led a massive demonstration to bid farewell to the 73 people killed in the bombing of a Cubana de Aviación civilian flight financed by anti-revolutionary leaders in the U.S. Most of the victims were Cuban athletes.
In December 1989, officials organized “Operation Tribute” to honor the more than 2,000 Cuban combatants who died in Angola during Cuba’s participation in the war that defeated the South African army and ended the apartheid system. In October 1997, memorial services were held following the arrival of the remains of guerrilla commander Ernesto “Che” Guevara and six of his comrades, who died in 1967.
The latest mass burial is critical to honor those slain, said José Luis Piñeiro, a 60-year-old doctor who lived four years in Venezuela.
“I don’t think Trump is crazy enough to come and enter a country like this, ours, and if he does, he’s going to have to take an aspirin or some painkiller to avoid the headache he’s going to get,” Piñeiro said. “These were 32 heroes who fought him. Can you imagine an entire nation? He’s going to lose.”
A day before the remains of those killed arrived in Cuba, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced $3 million in aid to help the island recover from the catastrophic Hurricane Melissa, which struck in late October.
The first flight took off from Florida on Wednesday, and a second flight was scheduled for Friday. A commercial vessel also will deliver food and other supplies.
“We have taken extraordinary measures to ensure that this assistance reaches the Cuban people directly, without interference or diversion by the illegitimate regime,” Rubio said, adding that the U.S. government was working with Cuba's Catholic Church.
The announcement riled Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez.
“The U.S. government is exploiting what appears to be a humanitarian gesture for opportunistic and politically manipulative purposes,” he said in a statement. “As a matter of principle, Cuba does not oppose assistance from governments or organizations, provided it benefits the people and the needs of those affected are not used for political gain under the guise of humanitarian aid.”
Coto contributed from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Military members pay their last respects to Cuban officers who were killed during the U.S. operation in Venezuela that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, at the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces where the urns containing the remains are displayed during a ceremony in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
A motorcade transports urns containing the remains of Cuban officers, who were killed during the U.S. operation in Venezuela that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, through Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Soldiers carry urns containing the remains of Cuban officers, who were killed during the U.S. operation in Venezuela that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, at the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (Adalberto Roque /Pool Photo via AP)
A motorcade transports urns containing the remains of Cuban officers, who were killed during the U.S. operation in Venezuela that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, through Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
A motorcade transports urns containing the remains of Cuban officers, who were killed during the U.S. operation in Venezuela that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, through Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
People line the streets of Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, to watch the motorcade carrying urns containing the remains of Cuban officers killed during the U.S. operation in Venezuela that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Workers fly the Cuban flag at half-staff at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune near the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, in memory of Cubans who died two days before in Caracas, Venezuela during the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
