Europe's Ryder Cup team will be ...... ?

US team looks like having less question marks to it than Europe's. Nightmare to predict - but hey - Start with the Gleneagles 12 and remove the 3 who won't reappear (Bjorn, Gallacher, & Donaldson). Replace them with 3 relatively easy alternatives (Lowry, Weisberger & Willet). At face value you have a stronger 12 than the 2014 winners, but ..... quite a few of the remainder are on the other side of the mountain now and not showing form (Poulter, McDowell, & Westwood) and Dubuisson has demonstrated the capacity run hot and cold too.

I honestly don't see Westwood getting to the gig. Neither do i sign up to the idea that Clarke will give him preferential treatement (quite the opposite). Westy's been carried a little bit by rookies in the last 2 cups, but credit to him for bringing them on too. He looks like VC material. Question mark over GMac as well, another with a personal connection to the skipper (Portrush members). Hazeltine is 7700yds though

Suspect they'll go to the well one last time with Poulter, but he needs to play (and compete against) an alpha partner. He's never been able to bring a junior partner on. I do wonder if they might pair him with Garcia in a mischievous 'black hat' partnership that might generate very different headlines for Friday nights press conference?

1: McIlroy, 2: Rose, 3: Stenson, 4: Kaymer, 5: Garcia, 6: Weisberger, 7: Lowry, 8: Willet, 9:Dubuisson, 10: Pieters, 11: Wood, 12: Poulter

I think length off tee for Pieters and Wood will make compelling wildcard cases, but there is more than just a bit of me thinking that the like of Fitzpatrick, or Sullivan, is a better bet than Poulter. If this were being played in Europe, I suspect it would

This could be a last hurrah for a few, or it could be boxing equivalent of one fight too many

Submitted January 10, 2016 at 06:44AM by FarawayFairways http://ift.tt/1mOcSsD