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Originally Posted by 3kings
I disagree completely. If you have one or 2 players off form it could cause you to lose the cup. Look at Overton for the US, he has been awful recently. Do you want to give away four points because earlier in the year he got a bunch of suck up top 10's? Has he never won a tournament on tour? I'm not saying he can't turn it around but he hasn't played well recently.
Here are the results of Overtons last tournaments
8/15/10 PGA Championship 71 74 71 74 79 -- 298 +10 $13,900.00
8/29/10 The Barclays T56 68 73 73 71 -- 285 +1 $16,875.00
9/06/10 Deutsche Bank Championship CUT 70 72 -- -- -- 142 E --
9/12/10 BMW Championship T57 72 76 72 74 -- 294 +10 $16,800.00
9/26/10 THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola 29 75 70 73 73 -- 291 +11 $121,500.00
I feel by sitting people it adds to the strategy and intrigue. What if Tiger is still playing crappy, will Pavin have the balls to sit him? Let the best players settle it, not players you are stuck with because they played well two years ago.
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That's ridiculous. Qualification is heavily based on the current year...thus Overton qualified. He played very well through July. Woods did not qualify. He was SELECTED by Pavin to PLAY. How did Fowler play in the Fed EX Cup playoffs?? Horrible. Didn't even make the Tour Championship. He was SELECTED by Pavin to PLAY. He actually chose someone not playing really well to play because of his match play success in the Walker Cup....Great, let's see him play match play all day long, not watch him watch someone else hit golf shots. No--having everyone play every match would actually add to the strategy. Figuring out who to pair a player not playing well with to increase their chances of winning takes strategy. Benching someone not playing well takes zero strategy. I'm one who actually prefers a 12 horse field in a grade 1 race than a 4 horse field. I'd rather see Overton, Woods, and Fowler and Harrington and Molinari play every single match. Every one of them is capable of going low on any particular day. The Ryder Cup is an exercise in deprivation of performance opportunity by a stupid set up. All 24 players should play all 5 rounds available to see which side really set up the best team in the two years they had to do it. Yeah, great event...figure out which great golfer should not play golf today to win a golfing competition. The Ryder Cup stinks.