WATCH: The pressure of being a Ryder Cup captain's pick

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WATCH: The pressure of being a Ryder Cup captain's pick

Ask any golfer who has played in a Ryder Cup and they will tell you the pressure is like nowhere else in the game. Then go and ask a Ryder Cup captain's pick, writes Simon Lewis in Hazeltine.

It is one thing standing on the first tee or over a potentially match-winning putt knowing you have made your team on merit, through either the United States or European qualifying system. It is an entirely different matter if you are there by someone else's good graces.

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