After the 10 guys who qualified automatically, Europe’s Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal, has chosen his two picks namely Ian Poulter and the first Belgian to play the biennial event Nicolas Colsaerts.
While I think these were the two the expected choices, I think a trick has been missed here, I think like the American team we should have four picks.
That way you can have the eight who’ve played the best during the qualification period and then you can better take into account those in the best form for the other four, because then you can avoid the whole mess surrounding Martin Kaymer.
The German qualified by the skin of his teeth after his form has plummeted and he even skipped the Johnnie Walker Championship because he knew he was playing so badly he had a better chance of making the team by sitting on the sidelines.
To make matters worse he was even considering giving up his place, all of these problems could have been avoided if Olazabal had four picks that way guys like Harrington could have made it and Kaymer would have missed out.
But now we’re stuck with a situation where Europe have a player who is in no form was actually hoping to miss out and is now in the team, which will significantly affect our chances and I think tip the scales in America’s favour.
One final point everybody keeps going on about the length of Medinah and how we need our side filled with big hitters and so on, nonsense what matters most in any form of golf at any level is the ability to putt and hole out.
Yes being able to spank it 300 yards plus is advantageous but it doesn’t compare to being able to consistently hold those horrible six foot sliders, and that will always be the case.
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