PGA revises point system for selecting Ryder Cup team
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Palm Beach Gardens, FL (Sports Network) - The PGA of America announced changes to its point system for selecting the United States Ryder Cup team on Thursday.
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The 10 teams have all played each other once, and a glance at the table reveals an interesting fact. The top four places - the automatic qualifying slots - are filled by the same countries that took them in the 2002 campaign.
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If you&#39;re looking for a reason the favored United States team lost for the seventh time in the past 10 Ryder Cup Matches, look at the reason the Americans were favored.
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Qualifying for the World Cup isn&#39;t all that complicated. Get three points from every home game and one from every road match and you&#39;ll make it every time.
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Paul McGinley and Jose Maria Olazabal automatically qualified for Europe's Ryder Cup team Sunday, and Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood made the squad as captain's picks. The four joined eight others already on the defending championship team that will face the United States at Ireland's K Club on Sept. 22-24: Paul Casey, Luke Donald, Sergio Garcia, Padraig Harrington, David Howell, Robert Karlsson, Colin Montgomerie and Henrik Stenson.
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The U.S. Ryder Cup qualifying system has  been revamped for 2006 after heavy criticism following the  American team's thrashing by Europe in this year's event.
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Colin Montgomerie, who has had a tough year, took a turn for the better Sunday, when he was chosen to play in his seventh Ryder Cup by the European team's captain, Bernhard Langer.
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TIGER Woods said yesterday that he wants to be made a playing vice-captain for the next American Ryder Cup team and also proposed a change in selection policy to halt his countryâs losing run.
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The US has revamped the qualification system which determines its Ryder Cup team in the wake of the crushing 18Â½- 9Â½ defeat by Europe last September.
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Tom Lehman of Scottsdale faces the task of reversing the losing ways of the US Ryder Cup team. Today Lehman will be named captain of the 2006 US team that will challenge the Europeans at the K Club in Kildare
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Tiger Woods says he would like more of a say in future US Ryder Cup team decisions. Woods, who struggled along with the rest of the American side in the biennial event earlier this month, says he&#39;d like to
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Still smarting from their 18Â½-9Â½ drubbing by Europe in September&#39;s Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills, the Americans have decided to overhaul the way they pick their team for the next meeting, at the K Club in Ireland in 2006.
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, United States  - In the wake of the worst Ryder Cup loss ever by an American team, the PGA of America has adopted a new points system to determine 10 automatic qualifiers for the United States squad.
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West Palm Beach, FL (Sports Network) - Tom Lehman will be named the United States Ryder Cup captain for the 2006 matches, according to The Palm Beach Post.
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The Ryder Cup, NBC analyst Johnny Miller says, is different from regular golf. While pro tournaments typically offer players water and fruit at each hole, with the Cup there also are &quot;barf bags.
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Tiger Woods wants to be made a playing vice-captain for the next US Ryder Cup team and also suggests a change in selection policy to halt their losing run.
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Jupiter&#39;s Fredrik Jacobson couldn&#39;t have come any closer to making his first Ryder Cup team. The Swede just missed out on qualifying as one of the top five European players on the World Points list that was finalized last week.