Europe must stop player exodus

ONE doesn’t need a degree in rocket science to realise that Europe must always field their very best possible side if they are to have any chance of beating the Americans in the Ryder Cup.

And that's why another animated debate is raging about the qualifying process for the team to face the Yanks at Oakland Hills in September.

When it was agreed to change the format so that form worldwide would be recognised just as much as on the home circuit, the belief was that every European would be brought within the fold, whether or not he ever teed up a ball in his native place.