Ryder Cup 2020 [Official Thread!]

1 round? And 2 bad holes for Shane and he's kept battling to the end? Shane has won bigger tournaments than this one too.

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I think there's something wrong with the points system if Wiesberger gets in automatically over Lowry. Wiesberger did win a tournament but let's face it, it was a rubbish one in Denmark.

Lowry has been up there in the PGA, the players, the open and the memorial, all big events. Wiesberger has never had a top 10 in the States in his entire career as far as I know.

I know they're trying to reward those that played a lot in Europe but at the end of the day you want to bring the best team possible, especially when it's being held in the US.

I really hope so, but I think Shane cracking on the back nine under pressure today will have to be taken into account. The Ryder Cup is all about performing under pressure and unfortunately Shane failed to rise to the occasion this afternoon.

Harsh, but golf is a game of small margins. The fact that he birdied the last two holes after having the disastrous five minutes on 14 and 15 must count in his favour, but I think Padraig will find it difficult to justify picking him ahead of Rose, given their relative performance this afternoon when the pressure was on.

Poulter, on the other hand, failed to make the cut this week and is well behind Lowry in points gained this season and in the current world rankings. If he gets a pick, it will purely be based on his reputation as “Mr Ryder Cup” and I would hope that Padraig is brave enough to pick Lowry in preference to him.

You mention Lowry's and Rose's performance under pressure this week, but by that logic shouldn't he pick Donaldson? He performed better under pressure than Rose and Lowry!

His post round interview looks like how it would be if a player already knew has was in.

Poulter as a vice-captain and the other three in the team does seem like one way out of this for Harrington.

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Final summary prior to announcement:

And the Postman has come

Agree with the first two choices. Based on the numbers, it's a bit of a toss up between the final two, so it's hard to argue that it's definitely a wrong decision. But Rose must be feeling very disappointed and I imagine that was a very difficult phone call.

My bias really shows up based off those numbers. Complete coin toss between poulter and Rose but my dislike of poulter had rose way ahead of him in my head.

Ooof, would've been tough on Bernd though.

Looking at it, I think I would've picked Sergio, Shane and Noren.

It's a pity Lee didn't drop out as his form looks pretty ropey and his short-range putting as always is an obvious weakness.

I just made a general statement. You’re referring to someone but you don’t say who

I imagine Harrington must've been gutted that Wiesberger made the team. If Shane had remained in the automatic slots he'd have picked Rose/Poulter/Garcia and nobody would've questioned it.