Part of your European Ryder Cup roster is set. Let’s guess on the captain’s picks.

We’ve heard the chorus for months, even a couple of years now from stateside golf voices. A real era of American Ryder Cup dominance is on the horizon, and the Stars & Stripes are set to run roughshod over the Euros at Le Golf National in late September.

That’s maybe a bit hyperbolic, but it’s a justifiable take. Post-Bellerive, Americans now hold the 1st (Dustin Johnson), 2nd (Brooks Koepka), and 3rd (Justin Thomas) spots in the Official World Golf Rankings. Jim Furyk will own six out of the last seven major championship wins on his roster. All 8 players to make the roster on points after the PGA Championship currently sit inside the Top 20 in the world rankings. Oh, and yeah, that Tiger Woods guy who seems to be quite hot at the moment. Plenty of reason to be bullish heading to Paris in a month’s time, if you’re a golf fan on this side of the Atlantic.

Well, uh, let’s maybe slow that all down here for a minute. Quietly, and with much less hype and fanfare, Thomas Bjorn’s watching as perhaps an all-time quality roster slowly materalizes for the European side. Here’s a quick look at who’s in, who’s out, and who’s still got a shot to make the homestanding team for Le Golf National as we finish up the European Tour’s Made In Denmark event this morning across the pond.

Francesco Molinari, Justin Rose, Tyrrell Hatton, Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Alex Noren

These are the guys that will make the Euro team on points — and have been positioned to do so for weeks. There’s no surprises here, as the list includes six highest ranked European players in the world.

Brooks Kopeka’s two majors give him a shot at the title, but don’t be mistaken: Francesco Molinari’s still been the player of the summer in 2018. A win at The Open, a win at Wentworth, a dominant, field-lapping win at Tiger’s event in DC, two more 2nd-place finishes, and a T-6 at the PGA. That’s what the Italian has amassed in a total of eight starts since the last week of May. Le Golf National sets up perfectly for his ballstriking abilities, and pending the unforseen, he’ll be an every-day player come fall. He leads the points list and locked up his spot months ago.

Rose has had one of golf’s more underappreciated careers in the sport. It’s something odd we didn’t see the gold medalist win more in 2018 — he’s turned in an excellent season despite only picking up one win. On the team, and in consistently rock-solid form.

From there, it’s others that seem certain to play most of the sessions in Paris — Points leader or not, Rory will be the team’s alpha again, likely an emotional leader looking to mirror his cathartic battle with Patrick Reed at Hazeltine from 2016. Fleetwood’s ballstriking should suit well to Le Golf’s asks. Hatton hasn’t missed a cut in months after some early season struggles. Noren won the French Open at this very venue earlier this year. Jon Rahm is Jon Rahm. No matter whom else gets added, this is a good team.

Thorbjorn Oleson (Just missed: Ian Poulter, Rafa Cabrera Bello, Paul Casey, technically.)

Four players entered the final week of points qualifying within ten points of each other on the World Points half of the rankings — Oleson, Poulter, RCB, and Paul Casey. Crazy drama for the final points qualifying week in the standings, right?

Actually, uh, no! Thanks to the European team’s rule that you can only acquire points at the Made In Denmark in this final week, Poulter, RCB, and Paul Casey were forced to choose between making a run at the roster on points or playing the U.S-based FedEx Cup Playoffs event in Boston. There’s a ton of guaranteed money at stake of course stateside, and a far better field — so it’s a bit of a curious decision by the Euro leaders to not allow the points to travel across the pond. It’s obviously designed to protect the European Tour, but it skews players toward a lesser event in the run up to the Cup.

Since that’s the case, only a Matt Fitpatrick win could’ve kept Oleson off the roster on points. The Englishman made a nice run, but Erik Van Rooyen just bested Fitz by a shot as I’m writing this — so it’s official. Thorbjorn Oleson is on the roster.

Poulter, Casey, RCB, Matt Fitzpatrick, Henrik Stenson, Sergio Garcia

Bjorn’s job could be easy, if he wanted it to be: Take some combination of the guys who just missed out on points. Poulter, Casey, and Cabrera Bello are all playing well at the moment. Poulter’s going to be on the roster — that seems almost like a given. One of Casey & Cabrera Bello seems guaranteed, too. Casey’s had a far more solid 2018, but RCB’s surging of late and in contention in Boston. Both could be in, but there’s just one problem: What the hell do you do about Henrik Stenson and Sergio Garcia?

The Euro bunch already seems poised to have more than a few rookies, and there’s been maybe no one better over the past 20 years for European sides than Sergio in these matches — and we’re in a cycle where he actually won a major. But he’s been absolutely awful since The Masters this year, missing the cut in 7 of 12 starts since. And he’s short on opportunities to impress between now and then, not acquiring enough PGA Tour points to even make the FedEx Cup Playoffs.

Still, he’s a vet, and has always been able to turn it on in Ryder Cups. His best finish of the summer, a T-8, came at Le Golf National in June, too. We’ll assume he’s in.

Henrik doesn’t have quite the rep as a Ryder Cup killer as Sergio, but he’s had a nice enough, but still pedestrian 2018. He’s battled some injury issues, but you’d think his career arc and rep might be enough to earn the nod.

If we’re guessing: Poulter, Casey, Stenson, Sergio — unless Cabrera Bello wins on Labor Day in Boston. Then? Things might get really interesting.