Ryder Cup

I think we've heard surprisingly little about the Ryder Cup points standings so far. 

Rank This Week	Rank Last Week	Player	Events	Points
1	1	Tiger Woods	12	8,665.627
2	4	Phil Mickelson	17	4,179.570
3	2	Stewart Cink	21	3,547.614
4	3	Jim Furyk	23	3,093.386
5	5	Boo Weekley	17	2,232.792
6	6	Anthony Kim	16	2,216.806
7	7	Zach Johnson	22	2,030.246
8	8	Steve Stricker	21	1,991.120
9	10	Justin Leonard	24	1,902.248
10	9	J.B. Holmes	18	1,899.139
11	14	Jeff Quinney	16	1,882.489
12	11	Brandt Snedeker	16	1,735.099
13	13	Sean O'Hair	22	1,734.917
14	12	Woody Austin	22	1,704.181
15	15	Bart Bryant	21	1,668.532
16	18	Paul Goydos	26	1,502.067
17	16	Kenny Perry	19	1,408.655
18	17	D.J. Trahan	24	1,370.380
19	19	Hunter Mahan	26	1,355.057
20	22	Jerry Kelly	27	1,304.572

Seems to me that the Top 4 are most likely locks at this point.  Out of the next 10 spots, Weekley, Kim, Leonard, Holmes, Quinney and O'Hair are the strongest candidates.  Kenny Perry must be using the psuedo-hometown location of this particular event to try and capture his spot on Cap'n Paul's squad, and if he keeps up his current performance at The Memorial, he'll vault himself into a much stronger position. 

From a Ryder Cup experience standpoint, there's not much experience looking to squeak in here.  I believe that from this list of 20, outside of the Top 4, only Leonard and Johnson have played in this event, although a few others do have Prez Cup experience. 

Not a lot of grizzled veterans here.  In fact, its quite likely that the following 2006 Ryder Cuppers will be watching Dan Hicks trip over his tongue this fall:
David Toms
Chad Campbell
Vaughn Taylor (wow)
Chris DiMarco
JJ Henry
Brett Wetterich
Scott Verplank

Surely we won't have a Turd sighting at Valhalla, unless Cap'n Paul gets sentimental with a pick.  Remember...he does get four of them.

I'll say this: Having Boo Weekley potentially involved in the Ryder Cup brings great joy to my soul. 

The bottom line: A good group of four "anchormen" and a whole lot of young upstarts for Cap'n Paul to work with.