With the US PGA at the weekend – the final qualifying event for the US team – the 8 automatic spots have now been decided leaving the final 4 places down to Corey Pavin to decide on. The question on everyone’s lips is whether Tiger will get one of those wildcard picks. With a fairly sizeable improvement in his game from the previous week at Firestone (it couldn’t have got any worse to be fair!) I’m pretty certain Corey won’t overlook the world number one…leaving three more spots up for grabs. Nick Watney has shown some good form of late (despite his collapse in Sunday’s final round), and Anthony Kim, who narrowly missed out in 9th place, have both got a case to get a pick; but with recent major winners Lucas Glover, Stewart Cink, and Zach Johnson also all finishing in the top 15, and having the experience of handling the pressure, it’s not going to be an easy decision for the captain.
Corey’s got to decide who to pick by the 7th of September, so it won’t be long until we know. With the European team looking stronger by the week, and Martin Kaymer winning the PGA, he’ll need to make sure his decisions are spot on.
By Keith Baird. Keith has been with PerryGolf for over 10 years and is one of our Golf Travel Specialists.
