McGinley rules out playing in Ryder Cup

Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley has dismissed the notion of qualifying for his own side, despite showing some prospective team members how it is done in the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles.

Amazingly the Irish quartet of McGinley, Shane Lowry, Michael Hoey and Gareth Maybin all finished with four-under par 68s to lie three shots behind joint leaders Bernd Wiesberger and Ricardo Gonzalez.

Austria’s Weisberger and Argentina’s Gonzalez took full advantage of earlier ideal scoring conditions to post seven-under par 65s.