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Assuming everyone wants to see the best two sides with their strongest teams, who do you think should be there?

Europe : USA

Sergio Tiger
Monty Phil
Luke Donald Jim Furyk
David Howell Chad Campbell
Darren Clarke DAvid Toms
Paddy Harrington DL3
Paul McGinley Freddie
Stenson Di MArco
JM Olazabal Abelosterwhatsit
Casey JB Holmes
Lee Westwood Brad Bryant
Thos Bjorn Ryan Moore

I reckon the bold ones would be winners making it 3-3 , but the rest would go either way, but I'm sure everyone else would disagree................

Tiger, Phil, Furyk, DiMarco, Campbell, Toms, Love are all solidgood choices.

My goal team would be good with the flatstick, so I am hoping for the following addititions:

Oberholser, Glover, Zach Johnson, Vaughn Taylor, Verplank

Freddie and Lehman struggle with the putter, but have experience. I am slightly indifferent to them, but would prefer the team to finally focus on putting skills. I hope Kenny Perry just does not amass points to get in.

Who cares who plays for the Euros? They seem to do just fine with 12 randomly selected players.

Europe: Sergio, Monty, Stenson, Donald, Howell, Casey, Paddy Harrington, Darren Clarke, McGinley, Dougherty, Bjorn, Ollie.

Who cares about the US? It's gonna be 20-8 anyway....

I wanna see the bombers out there (Bubba Watson, JB Holmes, JD, Brett Wetterich, Jason Zuback). Par 4 375...Driver. That would scare the shizzy out of those Euros. Oh... one more thing. This should probably be a part of another post, but shouldn't it be Americas vs. Europe. Europe has all these countries involved with it's Ryder Cup. Why can't we have Central and South Americans (Camillo Villegas) or Canadiens (Mike Weir)? I'm not saying they should be part of the team but US should have a wider variety to pick from. And isn't Vijay a US citizen already?

I was wondering about the citizenship thing because Michael Campbell applied for dual citizenship to the UK so he could qualify for the Ryder Cup. Seems unfair about the Americas because ye are the biggest golfing nation in the world. Would love to see Europe-v-Internationals though, exciting stuff

I'm hoping Michelle Wie gets picked as a cpatains choice. It would be great to see her there!!

Fred Couples 4 sure

no DiMarco , he doesnt deserve it

matter of fact , Lehman could be replaced too

everyone was talking about how Europe needed to win the 1995 Ryder Cup team, or people would lose interest in it. I wonder now if the U.S. needs to win this year's Ryder Cup, or people will lose interest in it. It certainly needs to be closer than last year's Ryder Cup, or the Ryder Cup is in trouble.

I knew it was coming, I just expected it from someone else...

You are kidding, right?

I would love John Daly to make it just to spark things up a bit. I find the Ryder cup to be a bit to Starchy stiff white collared.

As far as the Euros go, we always seem to do fine with whoever the top 12 are without the captain doing something goofy with the captains pick. Top 12 on the order of merrit it shall be. (I would kind of like to see Langer one more time though)

When is it played this year? Sept???

brianf

Cast your mind back to the President's Cup - di Marco was anchor man and he kept a rampant Apples at bay - under enormous pressure, he was the difference between success and failure. He should be an automatic pick for guts alone.

Current European team standings:

1 Stenson
2 Olazabal
3 Garcia
4 Montgomerie
5 Donald

6 Howell
7 McGinley
8 Casey
9 Broadhurst
10 Dougherty

Thomas Bjorn is next in line, breathing hard down the necks of Broadhurst and Dougherty. Big name players needing to start getting it done are Harrington, Clarke, Poulter, Westwood, Jimenez.

Stenson, Olazabal, Garcia, and Monty probably have their places iced already. I expect Harrington will start moving up shortly. One of Broadhurst and Dougherty and possibly both will fall away.

But with Stenson locked and a newcomer, and Ollie returning to the side, it sure looks like one or two big names from the last team will miss out, even with the captain's picks.

But John could strap the case of beer to the cart and pass cans out to his team mates to keep them loose.

He could also distract the opponents when he teed off by asking them to hold his ciggarrette for a minute


brianf

While he's really struggling currently, he does seem to blossom under the format and should be considered as long as he's not too far down the points list.