EDOARDO MOLINARI SEALS RYDER CUP PICK

Edoardo Molinari birdied the final three holes of the Johnnie Walker championship to take the title at Gleneagles and leave Colin Montgomerie with no option but to include the Italian in his Ryder Cup team.
Padraig Harrington and Luke Donald received Monty’s other two wildcard picks meaning that world number eight Paul Casey and world number 23 Justin Rose both miss out. Europe’s 12 man team is as follows; Lee Westwood, Luke Donald, Ross Fisher, Peter Hanson, Padraig Harrington, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Martin Kaymer, Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy, Edoardo Molinari, Francesco Molinari and Ian Poulter.
Sergio Garcia was also announced as Motngomerie’s fourth vice-captain and Rhys Davies will be alongside the Scot as his official buggy driver. Rumours of Simon Dyson being named official water boy are as yet unconfirmed.
Europe can be backed at 8/11, with Skybet, to regain the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor in October whilst USA are 6/4 to win it for the second time in a row.
Despite the European Ryder Cup picks being big sporting news, today’s back pages are dominated by a cricket story of the negative kind. Pakistan players have once again been accused of corruption in relation to spot-fixing after a story condemning the players was reported in Sunday’s News of the World.
Investigations are currently ongoing and as yet the upcoming T20 and ODI games are expected to go ahead as planned.
Meanwhile, on planet football, all the talk is of the impending transfer deadline and who will be moving where before the window shuts tomorrow evening. A brief summary of the whos and wheres suggests Jack Rodwell could move to Manchester United, Luis Fabiano, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Sulley Muntari could all be subject to late bids from Tottenham, Asamoah Gyan will move to Sunderland and Robinho could move to AC Milan or Barcelona.