McGinley looking good for Cup team

PAUL McGINLEY has leapt from 92nd to 68th in the world rankings and to within touching distance of joining Pádraig Harrington and Darren Clarke in the European Ryder Cup team as reward for his share of sixth place in the USPGA.

It’s been a great month or so for the 37-year-old Dubliner, who picked up $196,000 at Whistling Straits and is now 10th in the Cup pecking order.

He moves on to Akron, Ohio, for the NEC World Championship on Thursday with every chance of further improving his position. David Howell, Ian Poulter and Jeff Remesy, three of his strongest rivals for a place among the automatic top ten, miss out on that event which offers a minimum of $25,000 in prize money, although McGinley will be hoping for an awful lot more given his current form.