Poulter remains in golf's Ryder Cup hunt

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

NORTON, Massachusetts (AFP) — If Ian Poulter has a lock on a spot with Europe's Ryder Cup team, then somebody better tell Paul Casey.

Casey doesn't buy Nick Dougherty's assertion that Nick Faldo must have guaranteed Poulter a place on Europe's Ryder Cup team.

Casey doesn't know who captain Faldo is likely to choose as his two wild-card picks, and nor does he think Poulter has any idea which way the captain is leaning to complete the squad that will take on the US at Valhalla next month.

Poulter made a late decision to pull out of this week's Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles - his final chance to make the team automatically - to instead play in the United States at the PGA Tour's Deutsche Bank Championship.

That decision prompted Dougherty to...