JOSE MARIA OLAZABAL is backing Sergio Garcia to be part of his Ryder Cup team next September on the course where he became a world star.

MARTIN KAYMER, on course to become only the second German to play in the Ryder Cup, has proved he is not just a talent but a fighter too.

IN exactly 12 months’ in the comfort of the press tent at the BMW International at the Munich Golf Club just outside the Bavarian capital, the European team to confront the Americans at The K Club on September 22-24, 2006 will be finalised.

Padraig Harrington has earned more than £1m this season and is on course to finish it in his highest-ever position on both the world rankings and European Order of Merit.