The worst kept secret in golf is finally out. Tiger Woods will play in this year’s Ryder Cup, captain Corey Pavin having elected to give the embattled 14-time major winner one of his four wild cards.

No great surprise there. As poor a season as he has had by his own high standards, compared to the rest of the guys on tour, Woods has done not too shabbily in 2010. Plus, his divorce now finally official and public, and his relationship with his soon-to-be-new-coach Sean Foley blossoming, he seems to be finding some late-season form. Read more…

As he (reportedly) continues his treatment for sex-addiction at a clinic in Mississippi, Tiger Woods remains the talk of golf – although, for just about the first time since he plowed his car bonnet-first into a fire hydrant outside his home in Florida, the talk just now centres around his golf and not his infamous “transgressions”.

During last week’s Abu Dhabi Championship, the first leg of the European Tour’s three-part Gulf Swing, Sergio Garcia was asked about what impact an absent Tiger might have on this year’s USA Ryder Cup team.

Were he to miss the match at Celtic Manor, it would be the second straight Ryder Cup without him after his ruptured knee ligament forced him to miss the most recent instalment at Valhalla in 2008. Read more…