Re: The Open Championship : Mon Aug 30, 2010 3:56 pm  

PAUL M wrote:

The right choices were made I feel, Rose and Casey are unlucky but knew what they had to do before it all started.

Harrington is a huge player for Europe and had to be picked, Molinari played superb yesterday and deserved his place and I would have gone for Donald ahead of Rose/Casey.

Why did Harrington have to be picked? I don't get this he must be picked attitude, why? he has been a huge player for Europe but it won't last forever. He's slipped down the rankings this year and he hasn't exactly played that well this year.

I've never been a fan of Donald, I don't like him and personally I'd rather have had Karlsson or Stenson in there ahead of him and I'd have had Rose and Casey ahead of them. Molinari had to be in the team, he's an excellent prospect.

Ordsall Quays Red wrote:

I would have definitely gone with Harrington and Molinari, the other one I had open would have been Rose/Casey/Donald. With Donald having finished 3rd at the Welsh Open earlier this year I think that may have swung it his way for me.

At least it shows the strength in depth we've got when we've left out players of the talents of Casey, Rose, Garcia, Stenson, Karlsson.

The players who decide to chase the US dollar know beforehand that it's harder for them to get into the Ryder Cup team so it's no use them moaning about it afterwards.

I don't think they're moaning about it, if anything it's Donald who has made the point of changing the way things are done. You're right, isn't it nice that we've got this debate going about who should and shouldn't be in the team, it does show the quality of players.

I'm delighted Garcia didn't get a sniff of playing, he completely messed up two years ago and hasn't performed at all since. Although I think he's a vice captain now.

That could be Monty's thinking behind Donald but I'd rather players be picked on their form and current ability and I don't think Monty he has done that with Harrington and it's the same attitude that Paul has that is so frustrating.

Re: The Open Championship : Mon Aug 30, 2010 4:54 pm  

PAUL M wrote:

Harrington is a huge player for Europe and had to be picked

Is he really though? His record in the Ryder Cup is pretty poor as is his form. I'm with Dan_FC on this. Just because he was very good 2 years ago, incidentally when Tiger Woods had to take a year out of the game due to injury. Harrington has been picked on name alone which is just plain wrong in my eyes. Casey is a superb matchplay player. Just look at his record. It would have taken balls to put Casey in ahead of Harrington but it would have been the correct decision.

Re: The Open Championship : Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:27 pm  

El Pac Carnegie wrote:

Is he really though? His record in the Ryder Cup is pretty poor as is his form. I'm with Dan_FC on this. Just because he was very good 2 years ago, incidentally when Tiger Woods had to take a year out of the game due to injury. Harrington has been picked on name alone which is just plain wrong in my eyes. Casey is a superb matchplay player. Just look at his record. It would have taken balls to put Casey in ahead of Harrington but it would have been the correct decision.

And as I feared Monty didn't have the balls to do it, I'm shocked he's over looked both Casey and Rose - the two wins on the PGA this year I thought would swing him a place. But I really can't understand leaving out the world number 8 and not that long ago world number three runner-up at the last 2 Accenture World Matchplays. Harrington hasn't won a Ryder Cup match since 2006! For me he's just not playing well enough and hasn't been for a while to be picked. I think the Donald and Harrington selections will come back to haunt Monty.