Someone is always left out.

Ask Keegan Bradley, whose Ryder Cup bid in 2023 played out in front of, well, everyone who watched “Full Swing” on Netflix. Or Russell Henley, the bastion of consistency always overlooked. Every installment of captain’s picks — for any team event — leaves several players on the outside looking in. For every congratulatory phone call, there are more calls of disappointment.

Tuesday was the day that disappointment became official. Jim Furyk and Mike Weir each announced their six captain’s picks ahead of this month’s Presidents Cup, which kicks off in three weeks. It has become formulaic over the years — via Ryder Cups, Presidents Cups, Solheim Cups — for captains to issue six automatic spots and make six wildcard picks. That’s half the team! But the freedom is important. It allows the data analysts dial in perfect pairings. Ultimately, though, both the genius of a pick or the questioning are assigned to the captains, fairly or not.

Without further ado, below are the six picks that were made and the players who were passed up in the process.

International Team picks: Corey Conners, Taylor Pendrith, Mackenzie Hughes, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Si Woo Kim, Min Woo Lee

Team USA picks: Sam Burns, Russell Henley, Keegan Bradley, Max Homa, Brian Harman, Tony Finau

Biggest snubs
The ones everyone will talk about for the coming weeks.

Nick Taylor
This year’s Cup will be played in Montreal. It will be captained by a Canadian. There are three Canadians on the roster. But the literal logo for the Canadian Open, Nick Taylor, will somehow not be involved. Taylor won earlier this year, too, at the Phoenix Open, but that was back in February. This is September. Taylor hasn’t nabbed a top-25 finish in the last five months, missing the cut at every major. As far as in-form players go, he’s not on the list. But it’s not all about that.

Justin Thomas
Thomas is on the Ryder Cup committee, which was put in place to make captain’s selections, derive how the team would look, and build a solid foundation for Team USA for decades. He deserves that spot, too, having competed in every team competition since 2017. He’s starred on a number of those teams, too. But he is apparently not a fit for Furyk’s roster. The American captain was asked about Thomas specifically when he joined Golf Channel to explain his picks, and the first two words out of his mouth were rather telling: “Tough, tough.”

If the U.S. loses in Montreal, this is the pick that will be cited more than any other.

Harshest snubs
The highest ranked players (in standings) who weren’t picked.

Cam Davis
It’s pretty straightforward: Davis was just a few strokes from making this team. The automatic qualifying for the Internationals is based solely off world ranking, and Davis made a last-ditch effort to make it two weeks ago at the BMW Championship. He finished T5 in Colorado and jumped to 8th in the standings, which had many people penciling him in as a pick. Weir was not one of them. Davis, who won two matches in his Prez Cup debut two years ago, will have to watch from home.