The Ryder Cup 2012

[Rotterdam]

European Team is -

•Rory McIlroy (NI) Age: 23 Caps: 1
•Justin Rose (Eng) Age: 32 Caps: 1
•Graeme McDowell (NI) Age: 33 Caps: 2
•Paul Lawrie (Sco) Age: 43 Caps: 1
•Francesco Molinari (Ita) Age: 29 Caps: 1
•Luke Donald (Eng) Age: 34 Caps: 3
•Lee Westwood (Eng) Age: 39 Caps: 7
•Sergio Garcia (Spa) Age: 32 Caps: 5
•Peter Hanson (Swe) Age: 34 Caps: 1
•Martin Kaymer (Ger) Age: 27 Caps: 1
•Ian Poulter (Eng) Age: 36 Caps 3
•Nicolas Colsaerts (Bel) Age: 29 Caps 0


I can't wait.

[The Man With A Stick]

Me neither.  It's up there with the Ashes as my favourite sporting event.

[PaulWinch again]

It's a great event and I agree with the wildcard picks.

[The Left Side]

Come on Europe!

[avfcpg]

This is gonna be immense. Gonna be real tough for us to retain it. They are looking pretty strong this year.

[usav]

The only time I consider myself "European"   

[Drummond]

It's a strong looking team too.

[The Left Side]

The only time I consider myself "European"   

Me too

[PeterWithesShin]

The only time I consider myself "European"   

Me too

And the Mosconi Cup.

[Dave Cooper please]

Couple of weak links in Kaymer and Hanson, neither of whom are on particularly good form but the Ryder Cup often brings out the best in off-form players.
Should be a cracker but my money is on the Americans just because of home advantage.

[Rotterdam]

I think we have the better team, but agree that home advantage is massive.

[Dave Cooper please]

One good thing is that a lot more of our team now spend quite a bit of the season over in America, the tweaked qualification rules where World Ranking counts towards automatic qualification has helped in this respect.

[The Left Side]

Excellent, kirsty gallagher back on sky sports, mmm

[avfcpg]

Can't wait for this. Too tight to call for me, best looking US team we've seen for a while. Gonna be tough...
Come on Europe

[dicedlam]

Europe are playing in Villa's away kit.