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Tiger Woods is selected to Ryder Cup team by captain Corey Pavin
09.07.2010 – U.S. Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin has rounded out his team Tuesday morning in New York City, while adding Tiger Woods, No.1 in the world to his roster.
Proven successful veterans such as Tiger Woods, still the No.1 golfer in the world, yet winless in 11 tournaments this season, along with Zach Johnson and Stewart Cink were named to the U.S. Ryder Cup team that will face Europe Oct. 1-3 at Celtic Manor West in Newport, Wales. Captain Corey Pavin also selected the 21-year-old and PGA Tour rookie, Rickie Fowler, who is still yet to win a professional tournament.
"I am very pleased to add these four to Team USA," said Pavin. "I'm very proud to have Team USA completely assembled now, and I'm looking forward to the matches in three weeks.
"The objective here is to have 12 players that make up Team USA that are going to go out there and have one goal in mind, and that's to try to win the Ryder Cup over in Wales."
The U.S. Ryder Cup team has not won overseas since 1993, as Pavin's 2010 captain picks will join up with the eight players who have earned automatic berths at the end of the PGA Championship to include: Phil Mickelson, Hunter Mahan, Jim Furyk, Steve Stricker, Jeff Overton, Bubba Watson, Dustin Johnson and Matt Kuchar.
The youngster Rickie Fowler was the most questioned selection so far…
"I think obviously he's deserving," said Pavin. "There's a lot of guys deserving to be on the team, a lot of people in the mix. It just came down to feelings. I had a gut feeling about Rickie. He has a good Walker Cup record (7-1). He's a very good player. There's a lot of very good players that I had to look at, but that's the way I went.
"I think he's a very mature young man. He's had experience in international play, very solid player, and he's got a very steady head on his shoulders."
Rickie Fowler seemed excited about the situation and challenge ahead.
"I can bring some youth to the team and hopefully get the guys pumped up a little bit," Fowler said by phone at the news conference. "But as I said, we are all going over there to win so we are all going to be getting each other pumped up and kind of focusing on our main goal."
Tiger Woods, a 14-time major champion and winner of 71 titles on the PGA Tour, will play in the Ryder Cup for the first time since 2006.
"Did I ever have any doubt (about Woods)? I didn't think about it very much. I was just waiting and watching," said Corey Pavin. "As I've said before, I was hoping that he would qualify on points. He didn't, and then I just waited to see how he was going to play. I was glad to see he's playing better.
"Tiger is one of 12 guys on the team, and every one of them is just as important as another player."
Pavin called Woods on Monday night and asked if he'd like to be on the team.
"He said, ‘Absolutely,' and said, ‘Whatever you would like me to do, I will do, just tell me what you would like,' which is exactly what a captain likes to hear from any player on the team," said Pavin. "Obviously I was happy that he was very excited about playing, and he wants to be on a winning team, just like the other 11 guys, as well."
Tiger Woods was the captain's pick for the first time in his career. Although Woods only has two top-10s this season — ties for fourth in the Masters and U.S. Open — he is currently playing his best golf as of lately, after coming back after five months away from golf, following a self-imposed break to deal with his family after his very public sex scandal broke out in the media in late 2009.
Tiger Woods has posted five of his last eight rounds of golf in the 60s. In the Deutsche Bank Championship that concluded on Monday, Woods posted three rounds in the 60s for the first time all year. He closed with a 69 to tie for 11th place.
"Whether I was a person who was picked or a person who earned their way on the squad, it doesn't change the overall goal, it's still the same, and that's to go over there and win," Woods said on the phone. "There are signs my game has been coming around working with Sean (Foley). I'm hitting some better shots. Things are starting to transition there, and I feel like my game is not very far away and that makes it a lot easier going into a pressure-packed environment like that knowing that my game is coming around."
The European team was finalized last week when captain Colin Montgomerie added Padraig Harrington, Edoardo Molinari and Luke Donald as his three captain's picks. They will join up with Lee Westwood, Rory McIlroy, Ian Poulter, Graeme McDowell, Martin Kaymer, Ross Fisher, Peter Hanson, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Francesco Molinari. The European squad has six rookies, the Molinari brothers, McIlroy, Kaymer, Fisher and Hansen.
The next few weeks will be very important for the U.S. team leading up to the Ryder Cup, as they will strive to win for the first time in seven years overseas.
Do you think Tiger Woods was a well-deserved captain's pick for this year's U.S. Ryder Cup team?
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