Wood: Ryder Cup not main focus

CHRIS WOOD, last season’s Rookie of the Year on the European Tour, could be the next uncapped player to throw his hat into the Ryder Cup ring.

Wood: Ryder Cup not main focus

The 22-year-old Englishman leads the Wales Open after a record- equalling opening round of 65, six under par, on the same Celtic Manor course where October’s match takes place.

Six of the current top nine in the points race do not have a cap between them, but Wood has already shown what he can do by finishing fifth in the 2008 British Open as an amateur and then third at Turnberry last July.

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