Russell Knox ‘won’t sulk in the corner’

“So that’s the thing. The great thing with captain’s picks is that he can choose whoever he wants and I’ll be ok with it. I feel like I’ve done everything I could do. I played my best. I made the commitment to join the European Tour so I was eligible. I played well. So I guess I’ve made my case and hopefully it’s good enough.”

For Knox, he couldn’t possibly have imagined this time last year that he’d be on the fringes of automatic qualification. However, had he been a member of the European Tour for his WGC-HSBC Champions win in November, he would’ve already had his flights booked north to Hazeltine from his Jacksonville home.

He stressed that he hopes his win at Sheshan International will be taken into consideration by Clarke and his vice-captains and, should he qualify, will be using that win as a way to ease the pressure.

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“If I do get picked, I won’t feel like I’m a pick in a weird kind of way,” explained Russell Knox. “Because if my points counted at WGC, I would have made the team comfortably.

“So if I’m lucky enough to get picked, I’ll feel like ten people qualified and he picked two people. That’s the way I’m going to look at it to take pressure off myself. But yeah, that’s not my decision.”

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