So I’m not sure if he was just messing with everyone when he threw out Tiger Woods, who is one of Love’s vice captains, as the potential final captain’s pick which Love will make in two weeks.
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The U.S. has lost eight of the last 10 Ryder Cups and three in a row to the Europeans.
The three captain’s choices join Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Phil Mickelson, Patrick Reed, Jimmy Walker, Brooks Koepka, Brandt Snedeker and Zach Johnson, who qualified in the final standings for the Americans.
But U.S. captain Davis Love III is banking on Fowler returning to form for at least three days – September 30-Oct. “That was probably the only tournament that I regretting not playing because it’s one of my favourite events to play”, said the US Open champion. “We’re going to make four guys happy and eight or ten unhappy”.
“We’re a sports team and we have to draft the right player for the right position”. “This is a tough decision”.
The three picks came as a little shock to most in the golfing world.
Lee Westwood believes Bubba Watson’s stark omission from America’s Ryder Cup team boils down to USA captain Davis Love not considering him a team player. “We’re very confident in them”.
If Love’s decision comes down to compatibility, though, then Watson won’t become any more of a kindred spirit with any of his potential teammates. I don’t know how popular he is with the other players, but intense winners are not always everybody’s favorite.
“There were questions as late as last night but we kept coming back to these three”, Love told a press conference.
Left off the initial round of captain’s picks was Bubba Watson, now ranked No. 7 in the world. The result was a lackluster performance at the BMW Championship where he tied for 59th and was forced to watch the wildly fluctuating projections that had him in and out of the top 30 all afternoon. Holmes, 34, has two top-5 finishes in majors in 2016. His only otherRyder Cup appearance was in 2008, the last time the U.S won. “I was just with Bill Belichick last week, so we’re going to grind it out”. He was a fixture on that team, earning 2.5 points while teaming up with Bubba Watson.
Like Kuchar, Fowler was in the USA team for the Rio Olympics last month, and played five weeks in a row as he sought to earn FedEx Cup points for the finale – where the overall victor lands a $10 million jackpot.
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