Pressure mounts for Cup places

There are just four days to go in the 12-month race for places in the European Ryder Cup team and Paul McGinley and Paul Broadhurst are in the heat of the battle going into the BMW International Open in Munich tomorrow.

McGinley, match-winning hero of the 2002 event and unbeaten in Detroit two years ago, is in the 10th and last automatic spot, a third cap so close he can almost touch it.