EurAsia battle not a Ryder Cup audition, says Paul Dunne

Paul Dunne may be starting his 2018 campaign on Thomas Bjorn’s European team at this weekend’s EurAsia Cup in Malaysia but the Irish star will not be fooled that he has one foot in the door for this year’s Ryder Cup.

The 25-year-old from Greystones in Co Wicklow is one of 12 European Tour winners on Ryder Cup skipper Bjorn’s team in Kuala Lumpur for the third staging of the biennial match-up with Asia, getting underway on Friday at the Glenmarie Golf and Country Club.

Dunne’s spectacular victory at the British Masters last October catapulted the Irishman into a European team alongside 2016 Open champion Henrik Stenson and European number one Tommy Fleetwood, led by Bjorn just eight months before the Danish star also captains Europe in the Ryder Cup in Paris.