Sergio Garcia call will define Thomas Bjorn’s Ryder Cup captaincy

Sergio Garcia’s inclusion as one of Thomas Bjorn’s four captain’s picks for Europe later this month could come to define the success or failure of the Dane’s bid to regain the Ryder Cup from the United States.

The decision, revealed yesterday, to make the out-of-form Spaniard part of a quartet of experienced campaigners alongside Paul Casey, Ian Poulter and Henrik Stenson to augment the eight automatic qualifiers on Bjorn’s team for the September 28-30 matches at Le Golf National is a bold call.