Woods given chance to correct Ryder record

COREY PAVIN yesterday handed Tiger Woods the chance to go into the Ryder Cup record books – as the American with more defeats than any other.

US captain Pavin has handed his wild cards to the world number one, fellow major winners Stewart Cink and Zach Johnson and to uncapped 21-year-old Rickie Fowler, who will create his own history by making the step up from the amateur Walker Cup to the Ryder Cup in just one year.

Fowler, the third youngest player ever to represent America in the match, was almost certainly preferred to Anthony Kim, a star of the winning 2008 team who has yet to make a halfway cut since returning from thumb surgery last month.