Excited Walker 注目する，もくろむs Cup debut after 素晴らしい year
By 示す Lamport-Stokes
ATLANTA, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Making the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs Ryder Cup for the first time had long been a goal for Jimmy Walker, though it was a 公正に／かなり remote one as he toiled away almost 不明な as a journeyman on the 高度に 競争の激しい PGA 小旅行する.
But that changed in the proverbial blink of an 注目する，もくろむ after the American made a 素晴らしい start to the 2013-14 season, winning three times in eight events to ロケット／急騰する up the U.S. Cup standings.
Though he has not 勝利d since his victory at the Pebble Beach 国家の プロの／賛成の-Am in February, Walker 成し遂げるd 井戸／弁護士席 in the majors and comfortably qualified for Tom Watson's team to take on 支えるもの／所有者s Europe at Gleneagles in Scotland later this month.
"It's always been a goal of 地雷, to compete in the Ryder Cup," Walker, 35, told Reuters at the PGA 小旅行する's season-ending 小旅行する 選手権. "You have long-条件 goals and you have things you want to do.
"That was 明白に one of them. It's like making the Olympic team. Those are goals that you have to put out there for yourself. I'm really excited to go over (to Scotland)."
In his wildest dreams, though, Walker would never have banked on （人命などを）奪う，主張するing three victories 早期に on in the season to 効果的に 署名／調印する in his 位置／汚点／見つけ出す on the 12-man U.S. team.
"You 勝利，勝つ that first one, and then you 勝利，勝つ the Sony (Open)," smiled Walker. "And then you 勝利，勝つ the next one (the Pebble Beach 国家の プロの／賛成の-Am), and you're like, 'Wow, this is get ting to be a very possible thing'.
"Three (勝利，勝つs) in eight (events), that's hard to do. But you still have to think 肯定的な, you have to think that the 勝利，勝つs are 権利 there. I still feel that way, even though it (winning) hasn't happened in a while."
Walker became only the fourth player since 1995 to 勝利，勝つ three events in eight or より小数の starts to begin a PGA 小旅行する season, emulating the previous 業績／成就s of David Duval, Phil Mickelson and 支持を得ようと努めるd, who did so an incredible eight times.
REMARKABLE FEAT
What made his feat even more remarkable is that Walker went 187 career starts on the PGA 小旅行する without success before finally clinching his maiden victory at the season-開始 Frys.com Open in October.
Asked what had finally clicked for him to break into the 勝利者's circle, Walker replied: "It's hard to say. It was a lot of experience, a lot more knowledge of how to play ゴルフ, a new coach, working on new stuff, just more 信用／信任.
"It was just a 事柄 of a few things that led to a couple of big things."
In 新規加入 to his three 勝利，勝つs on the 2013-14 PGA 小旅行する, Walker has taken 広大な／多数の／重要な satisfaction from his 全体にわたる consistency 同様に as his strong 業績／成果s in ゴルフ's エリート tournaments.
"I've been playing good," said the Oklahoma native who now resides in Texas. "I've had a lot of really good finishes in big events this year, three 最高の，を越す-10s in the majors, a 最高の，を越す-10 at The Players. The ゴルフ game feels good."
Walker, who tied for eighth at the Masters, 株d ninth place at the U.S. Open and finished 共同の seventh at the PGA 選手権, has had little time to think about the Ryder Cup o ver the past four weeks.
"We've all been concentrating on the FedExCup プレーオフs, and this week's season-ending event," he said. "But I've already talked to a couple guys and they say that 勝利，勝つ or lose, the Ryder Cup is one of the best weeks in our profession.
"It's going to be a special week and I'm excited about it."
Asked how much he felt the Americans would be 動機づけるd at Gleneagles by their 素晴らしい loss in the 2012 Ryder Cup at Medinah, Walker replied: "It will work for the guys that were there, I think.
"Losing the Ryder Cup is something you don't want to experience and that was the 感情 表明するd at a team dinner we had the other night."
Two years ago in what became known as the '炉心溶融 at Medinah', the U.S. threw away a 命令（する）ing four-point lead over Europe 長，率いるing into the last-day （テニスなどの）シングルス to lose by 14-1/2 points to 13-1/2.
"That's not something that they want to repeat or experience again," said Walker. "So we want to go over there and take the cup home." (Editing by Larry 罰金)
