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European Ryder Cup Team Selection Hots Up After Major Automatic Selection Changes After The Open

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Padraig Harrington winning The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale has propelled the Irishman up to 1st place in the The Ryder Cup World Points List, guaranteeing him selection for this year’s Ryder Cup.

Above, defending champion Padraig Harrington with Sports Biomechanic Guru Dr Paul Hurrion

This move and fine perfomances by Robert Karlsson and Henrik Stenson at The Open has resulted in both Justin Rose and Sergio Garcia dropping outside the automatic 5 places for those finishing in the top-5 of the World Points List.

Justin Rose has just managed to stay in the final 10th automatic selection position for the next 5 places on the The Ryder Cup European Points List, excluding the 5 automatic selections from the Worls Points List.

Garcia is lying 6th on the World Points List and 25th on the European Points List whereas Open runner-up Ian Poulter has moved up to 7th and 12th places on both lists.

Ross Fisher’s eight at the 72nd hole was a very costly mistake as he sky dived down the Open final leaderboard - he now lies in 15th and 11th on the Points Lists.

Soren Hansen, Oliver Fisher and Martin Kaymer, along with Rose, are clinging to a place and can expect serious competition from the likes of Poulter, Colin Montgomerie, Paul Casey, Garcia, Daniel Chopra and Luke Donald (if he recovers full fitness).

There is still plenty of money to be won at the World Golf Championship Bridgestone and USPGA Golf Championship events over the pond plus the KLM, SAS and Johnnie Walker events in Europe, so there is still plenty of time for further changes.

Current placings as follows.

World Points List

1 Padraig HARRINGTON 238.64

2 Lee WESTWOOD 229.18

3 Henrik STENSON 200.02

4 Robert KARLSSON 194.05

5 Miguel Angel JIMÉNEZ 192.36

6 Sergio GARCIA 189.80

7 Ian POULTER 173.21

8 Justin ROSE 170.36

9 Graeme MCDOWELL 166.03

10 Martin KAYMER 149.95

11 Luke DONALD 134.66

12 Søren HANSEN 123.64

13 Daniel CHOPRA 123.59

14 Oliver WILSON 114.90

15 Ross FISHER 104.72

16 Nick DOUGHERTY 92.54

17 Carl PETTERSSON 89.97

18 Søren KJELDSEN 84.30

19 Paul CASEY 82.41

20 Fredrik JACOBSON 79.50

21 Richard FINCH 75.11

22 Grégory BOURDY 74.08

23 Alastair FORSYTH 73.08

24 Steve WEBSTER 68.87

25 Darren CLARKE 67.75

26 Phillip ARCHER 64.57

27 Alex CEJKA 59.80

28 Niclas FASTH 59.72

29 John BICKERTON 59.20

30 Paul MCGINLEY 58.98

31 Gonzalo FDEZ-CASTAÑO 58.46

32 Colin MONTGOMERIE 57.36

33 Anders HANSEN 56.55

34 Franco MOLINARI 56.19

35 Peter HANSON 56.11

36 Simon DYSON 56.05

37 Robert-J DERKSEN 56.00

38 Damien MCGRANE 55.80

39 Peter LAWRIE 54.82

40 Peter HEDBLOM 54.49

European Points List

1 Lee WESTWOOD 2141552.72

2 Robert KARLSSON 2087550.28

3 Miguel Angel JIMÉNEZ 2005780.63

4 Graeme MCDOWELL 1899335.72

5 Padraig HARRINGTON 1763740.27

6 Henrik STENSON 1640824.60

7 Søren HANSEN 1340921.93

8 Oliver WILSON 1326431.56

9 Martin KAYMER 1316335.15

10 Justin ROSE 1272327.75

11 Ross FISHER 1246850.73

12 Ian POULTER 1237412.66

13 Nick DOUGHERTY 1043412.16

14 Søren KJELDSEN 1030433.89

15 Colin MONTGOMERIE 886961.75

16 Steve WEBSTER 876026.50

17 Grégory BOURDY 873672.30

18 Richard FINCH 846704.01

19 Paul CASEY 837869.74

20 Pablo LARRAZABAL 791617.28

21 Peter HANSON 717233.35

22 Phillip ARCHER 715843.36

23 Peter LAWRIE 684856.84

24 Simon DYSON 671303.81

25 Sergio GARCIA 665314.70

26 Damien MCGRANE 664474.98

27 Francesco MOLINARI 660863.67

28 Robert-Jan DERKSEN 649924.73

29 Anders HANSEN 645267.55

30 Paul MCGINLEY 637966.62

31 Alastair FORSYTH 633599.31

32 John BICKERTON 575628.61

33 Darren CLARKE 567939.30

34 Peter HEDBLOM 551703.87

35 Rory MCILROY 545611.96

36 Bradley DREDGE 538739.64

37 Alexander NOREN 537487.92

38 Niclas FASTH 537114.25

39 Johan EDFORS 520293.42

>40 Oliver FISHER 495177.18