Bradley, Mahan and Simpson 指名するd as U.S. wildcards
By Larry 罰金
NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) - 部隊d 明言する／公表するs captain Tom Watson, helped by a late "発覚", 選ぶd for experience and form in choosing Keegan Bradley, Hunter Mahan and Webb Simpson as his wildcard 選ぶs for this month's Ryder Cup against Europe.
Watson 発表するd Bradley, Mahan and Simpson, all of them former Ryder Cup players, as his three 選択s during a glitzy news 会議／協議会 at Studio 8H, the home of 'Saturday Night Live', at Rockefeller Plaza.
The trio join (a)自動的な／(n)自動拳銃 choices Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler, Jim Furyk, Jimmy Walker, Phil Mickelson, Matt Kuchar, Jordan Spieth, Patrick Reed and Zach Johnson on the 12-man American team.
"There were several people in the mix for my three 選ぶs," Watson said after the 告示. "Experience was a big factor. All three (wildcard) players have either an even 記録，記録的な／記録する or a winning 記録，記録的な／記録する playing in the Ryder Cup.
"A lot of players are starting to play 井戸／弁護士席 from the American 味方する and that's a good thing. We are going to need it.
"The Europeans, on paper, have been touted as 存在 the favourites and we are the underdogs but I have a 根底となる belief in my team."
The Americans will take on Paul McGinley's European team, the 支えるもの／所有者s, in the 40th 版 of the biennial 競争 from Sept. 26-28 at Gleneagles in Scotland.
Bradley, 28, has won three times on the PGA 小旅行する, 含むing a first major 栄冠を与える at the 2011 PGA 選手権, and was undefeated in Ryder Cup team play as a 新人 after 存在 paired with Mickelson at Medinah two years ago.
A 熱烈な player, Bradley's only 敗北・負かす （機の）カム at the 手渡すs of Rory McIlroy in the （テニスなどの）シングルス on the final day, when Europe 行う／開催する／段階d an improbable 復帰 to 保持する the Cup.
"I've made no secret of how important this team is to me and how bad I want to go 支援する and 勝利，勝つ the Ryder Cup," Bradley said. "This is a redemption year for a lot of guys that were on the (2012) team."
Mahan, 32, who made his Ryder Cup debut at Valhalla in 2008, 行方不明になるd out on 選択 in 2012 but returns to the team for a third time after winning his sixth PGA 小旅行する 肩書を与える at The Barclays just nine days ago.
"That was a 抱擁する, timely 勝利，勝つ," Mahan said of his victory in the opener of the four-event FedExCup プレーオフs. "I knew my game was coming around, I felt that things were 権利 there.
"I had a 静める, a 広大な／多数の／重要な 信用／信任, and I went out there and played 井戸／弁護士席. That 勝利，勝つ was 大規模な for the FedExCup and for the Ryder Cup team."
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Simpson, 29, has won four times on the PGA 小旅行する, 含むing the 2012 U.S. Open, and also made his Ryder Cup debut at Medinah. A 激しく揺する-安定した player, he has 記録，記録的な／記録するd two 最高の，を越す-10s in his last three PGA 小旅行する starts.
"I had a 発覚 this morning," Watson said before 発表するing Simpson as his third and final 選ぶ. "I was きれいにする up all these stats. The last one that was out there was the results from the 2012 Ryder Cup.
"I look 負かす／撃墜する there and see Webb Simpson (winning in team play) 5&4, Webb Simpson 5&4 and I thought that's got to be the guy. But the final d ecision on Webb, that was the toughest 決定／判定勝ち（する）."
の中で the players to 行方不明になる out on a wildcard 選ぶ were Chris Kirk, who made a late 企て，努力，提案 for 選択 by winning the エリート Deutsche Bank 選手権 in Norton, Massachusetts on Monday, and 2012 FedExCup 支持する／優勝者 Brandt Snedeker.
"That was a hard phone call to make," Watson said of Kirk. "Even though he had a good tournament, you look at the long 運ぶ／漁獲高 and I just had the feeling that the other three players were probably better ふさわしい for it.
"And 追加するing one more 新人 was probably not good for the team."
Had Kirk made the team, he would have been the fourth U.S. 新人 after Walker, Spieth and Reed.
The 2014 European Ryder Cup team, led by world number one McIlroy, 含むs four of the 最高の，を越す-five 階級d players, while the Americans 所有する arguably greater depth with nine of the 最高の，を越す 20.
"We have the perception of 存在 the underdog but we have some players who can play and are on the up-swing 権利 now," said Watson. "It's the time for the U.S. to show what they're made of and bring that cup 支援する."
The U.S. will be bidding to end a run of seven losses in the last nine 版s of the Ryder Cup and looking for their first victory on foreign 国／地域 since 1993, when Watson was team captain at The Belfry in England. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Larry 罰金; 令状ing by 示す Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Frank Pingue/Nick Mulveney)
