PGA Tour rankings -- May 28, 2012

The Sports Xchange's PGA Tour rankings are selected by TSX Golf Staff, based on play in the 2011 and 2012 seasons, with more emphasis on recent results.

1. Luke Donald, England -- Not only did Donald successfully defend his title in the BMW PGA Championship over the weekend at Wentworth, he again took from Rory McIlroy the No. 1 spot in the World Golf Rankings, the sixth time it has changed hands this year. Donald posted four rounds in the 60s to win by four strokes over Justin Rose and Paul Lawrie to win for the second time this year -- he also claimed the Transitions Championship on the PGA Tour. He successfully defending a title for the first time in his career and joined Nick Faldo (1980-81) and Colin Montgomerie (1998-1999-2000) as the only players to win the flagship event on the European Tour in consecutive years. ... Donald, who held the No. 1 ranking for 40 weeks before McIlroy knocked him off the perch earlier this season, will try to retain the top spot this week at the Memorial Tournament. He has played in the tournament seven times previously, but his only top-10 finishes came in two of his last three appearances at Muirfield Village. He opened with a 4-under-par 68 in 2008 but could not break 70 the rest of the way and wound up in a tie for sixth. Last year, he shot 69 in the second round and 68 in the last en route to a tie for seventh. Three years ago, he grabbed the first round lead with a 64 but was 6-over the rest of the way and tied for 14th. ... Donald made bogey on the fourth hole on Sunday at Wentworth to fall into a tie for the lead with Rose but came back with birdies on the sixth and seventh to regain control. He couldn't be caught, playing the last 14 holes in a bogey-free 5-under-par.

2. Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland -- Coming off a missed cut in the Players Championship, McIlroy incredibly shot 74-79--153 and missed the weekend by eight shots in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth to lose the No. 1 ranking again to Luke Donald. It was the first time the 23-year-old has missed the cut in consecutive events in more than two years, since the 2010 Shell Houston Open and the Masters. He admitted afterward that he might have "taken my eye off the ball" and not practiced as much lately as he should have. ... Rory will try to get his game back on track this week in the Memorial Tournament, which he will be playing for the third time. He seems to enjoy Muirfield Village because he has finished in the top 10 in both of his previous appearances. In 2010, he shot 68-68 in the middle rounds and finished in a tie for 10th. Then last year, he grabbed the first-round lead with a 6-under-par 66 but could manage only 72-71 in the middle rounds before a closing 68 left him in solo fifth. ... McIlroy made three birdies in the first seven holes of round two last week at Wentworth and was one shot inside the cut-line before the wheels came off completely. He carded a double bogey on the eighth hole and followed that with five consecutive bogeys before adding another double at No. 15. McIlroy didn't play well on Thursday but had absolutely nothing on Friday, when he hit only 6 of 14 fairways and 8 of 18 greens while taking 31 putts. For the two rounds, he got up-and-down for par only twice in the 15 times he missed the green in regulation.

3. Phil Mickelson, United States -- Following a week off after he tied for seventh in the HP Byron Nelson Championship, Mickelson will be back this week to play in the Memorial Tournament for the 12th time. So far, it's been a good but not great season by his standards. He's had five finishes in the top 10 and seven in the top 25 in 12 events, including the 40th victory of his PGA Tour career in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. However, Lefty has had a handful of other chances to win but let them get away. ... Despite playing often at Muirfield Village, Mickelson has yet to win at Jack's Place and has only three finishes in the top 10. His best finish was a tie for fourth in 2006, when he broke the par of 72 in all four rounds on the stingy course and wound up three strokes behind winner Carl Pettersson of Sweden. Two years ago, he opened with a 67 and closed with a 69 to tie for fifth but was seven shots behind champion Justin Rose. His worst outing in the Memorial came in 2008, when he shot 70-78--148 to miss the cut by three strokes, the only time he failed to make the weekend in the event. ... Mickelson could make it easier on himself if he would drive the ball straighter. He ranks 136th by hitting the fairway only 56.16 percent of the time, which puts a strain on his magnificent short game. He ranks 13th in strokes gained-putting and 20th with an average of 28.37 putts per round. That has helped Lefty rank second in scrambling -- he gets up-and-down 67.77 percent of the time, mostly to only save par.

4. Bubba Watson, United States -- Having played only once since his stirring playoff victory over Louis Oosthuizen in the Masters -- he tied for 18th in his title defense in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans despite running on fumes -- Bubba will return to the PGA Tour this week for the Memorial Tournament. He has had quite a season already, finishing in the top 20 in all nine of his tournaments, including four in the top 10. ... Watson will be playing at Muirfield Village for the seventh consecutive year but has yet to figure out the lay of the land at Jack Nicklaus' pace. His best finishes were ties for 23rd in 2007 and 2009, and last year he opened with a 3-over-par 75 on his way to a tie for 42nd. His best stretch came when he opened with 66-68 to rank with the 36-hole leaders in 2007, but he played the weekend in 73-74. The worst was in 2008, when he shot 72-84--156 to miss the cut by six strokes. ... After making the media parade following his victory at Augusta National, Watson said he needed a break with his family; he and wife Angie still are getting to know their 1-year-old adopted son, Caleb. Bubba, whose profile picture on Twitter shows him wearing the Green Jacket and holding his son, tweeted to his followers about two big firsts last week. Angie and Bubba took Caleb to church, then later to the golf course, posting a picture of Caleb in his stroller on the course.

5. Steve Stricker, United States -- Expect Stricker to start another streak of cuts made this week in the Memorial Tournament, where he will be defending the title he won last year. He failed to make it to the weekend in his last outing, the Players Championship, ending what was the longest such active streak on the PGA Tour at 49, but he doesn't have a stellar record at TPC Sawgrass. ... When he was asked about that by reporters at the Players, he pointed out that he had not done so well at Muirfield Village, either, before winning last year. Strick had played there 11 times previously and posted only two top-20 finishes, solo 13th in 1996 and a tie for 13th in 2010. Then he recorded four rounds in the 60s in 2011 and held on for a one-stroke victory over Matt Kuchar and Brandt Jobe. Stricker built a four-stroke lead at the turn with six birdies on the front nine in a closing 4-under-par 68 but needed clutch par putts of 15 feet on No. 16 and seven feet at No. 17. That gave him a two-stroke lead heading to the final hole, and he held on despite closing with a bogey. ... Until missing the cut in the Players, Stricker had been solid this year since winning the season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions. He has three other top-10 finishes but probably would like to pick up the pace since he ranks only 21st in both the FedEx Cup standings and on the PGA Tour money list.

6. Jason Dufner, United States -- Seemingly headed for his third victory in the last four events, with his wedding also part of an incredible five-week run, Dufner lost it physically and mentally on the final 10 holes of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. He played that stretch in 5-over par and closed with a 4-over 74, which left him one stroke behind winner Zach Johnson. For a while it was a three-stroke margin, but Johnson was hit with a two-stroke penalty on No. 18 for failing to put his mark back to its original position after moving it because it was in Dufner's line. ... There is no question that Dufner could use a break, and he will take two weeks off ahead of the U.S. Open at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. This week, he will be at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles serving as an volunteer assistant coach for his alma mater, Auburn, in the NCAA men's golf championship. ... Dufner was trying to join Ben Hogan, the only player to win the HP Byron Nelson Championship and the Colonial in the same season, but admitted he was running on empty heading into the final round Sunday. Still, he held a two-stroke lead over Johnson before his approach on the ninth hole spun off the green and into the water, leading to a double-bogey 6. Dufner was only one stroke back when his tee shot on No. 15 found a fairway bunker. His approach was close to being very good but rolled off the green and into the water, and his eventual triple-bogey 7 virtually handed the title to Johnson. In addition to those two water balls, Dufner took 31 putts on Sunday after averaging 27.3 for the first three days.

7. Lee Westwood, England -- Following a string a fine performances early this year, including winning his title defense in the Indonesian Masters, Westwood has stumbled in big events in his last two outings. First, he tied for 61st in the Players Championship, and then last week he tied for 33rd in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, failing to break 70 in any of his last eight rounds. ... Unlike Luke Donald, Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose, Westy is not flying back to the United States this week for the Memorial Tournament, in which he tied for 29th in his only appearance in 2003. Instead, he his staying in England for a little break and will play next week in the Nordea Scandinavian Masters, which he won in 1996 and 2000. That will make for a long trip the following week to San Francisco for the U.S. Open at the Olympic Club. And since he will be in Stockholm, he obviously won't be playing next week in the FedEx St. Jude Classic, which he won in 2010 before tying for 11th in his title defense. ... After opening with a solid 2-under-par 70 last week at Wentworth, it seemed Westwood would have no problem making the cut on Friday until he went bogey-bogey-double bogey through No. 17, where he drove out of bounds. That put him one shot outside the cut-line, but he got up-and-down from a greenside bunker for birdie on No. 18 to make it on the number. It didn't get much better because he went 70-74 on the weekend. For the week, he hit only half the greens and averaged 30.5 putts per round.

8. Hunter Mahan, United States -- Mahan seemed to snap out of his recent slump when he played solid golf for three rounds in the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, but he closed with a 4-over-par 74 to wind up in a tie for 37th. One of two multiple winners on the PGA Tour this season along with Jason Dufner, he has been unable to finish in the top 35 in his last three tournaments, since tying for 12th in the Masters. ... Trying to get his game back to where it was when he captured the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and the Shell Houston Open earlier in the year, Mahan will tee it up this week for the sixth time in the Memorial Tournament. He has missed the cut in two of his five previous appearances at Muirfield Village but posted his best finish a year ago, when 3-under-par 69s in the first and third round led to a tie for 13th. In 2009, he bounced back from an opening 74 to make the cut with a 69 and wound up in a tie for 14th. ... After posting a bogey-free 68 in the third round last week at Colonial and going 33 consecutive holes without a bogey at one point, Mahan could not make a birdie on Sunday until the final hole. He was only 1-over through 10 holes in the final round but then he carded four bogeys on the next five holes, the first three in succession. He ranked among the leaders by hitting 49 of 72 greens in regulation but averaged 30.8 putts per round, taking at least 30 each of the last three days.

9. Matt Kuchar, United States -- The Players champion again played some solid golf in his third consecutive week, shooting 69-67 in the middle rounds to put himself in position for a top-10 finish in the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. However, as he did the week before in tying for 15th in the HP Byron Nelson Championship, he stumbled home and closed with an 2-over-par 72 en route to a tie for 26th. That cost him his 10th finish in the top 25 in 12 tournaments this season. ... Kooch's name showed up on the early commitment list for the Memorial Tournament, but after winning the Players and competing the next two weeks he must need some rest because tournament officials said Friday that he was a late scratch. That might be a bit of a surprise since he has posted four consecutive top-10 finishes at Muirfield Village, including a tie for second last year, when he played the weekend in 68-65 to finish one stroke behind Steve Stricker. Kuchar has not committed to the FedEx St. Jude Classic next week, so we probably won't see him again until the U.S. Open in two weeks. ... Kuchar birdied the first hole of the final round last week at Colonial but could not add another one the rest of the way. It was almost a carbon copy of his first-round 72, in which he made birdie at No. 1 but could manage only 14 pars and three bogeys the rest of the day. He hit roughly two-third of the fairways and greens but averaged 30.0 putts per round.

10. Justin Rose, England -- For the second time, Rose had a chance to claim the BMW PGA Championship, flagship event of the European Tour, but again came up short. This time, he shot 2-under-par 70 in the final round and could not keep up with Luke Donald, who closed with a 68 to win by four shots over Rose and Paul Lawrie. In 2007, Rose lost the title at Wentworth in a playoff to Anders Hansen of Denmark. ... Rosy has made the trip back from England to play this week in the Memorial Tournament, which will be his final event before the U.S. Open. He has played seven times previously at Muirfield Village, and it's been feast or famine the last few years. The Englishman tied for second in 2008 and won it in 2010, but he missed the cut in 2009 and last year as defending champion, failing to shoot 70 in any of those four rounds. However, he opened with a 7-under-par 65 two years ago and closed with a 66, leading most of the way to claim a three-stroke victory over Rickie Fowler. That came two years after he finished two shots behind winner Kenny Perry. ... Rose was two strokes behind entering the final round at Wentworth last week, but, after making bogey at the second hole, pulled even with birdies on the next two holes as Donald made bogey at No. 4. However, Justin could not keep up when he carded pars on the next seven holes and was only 1-under the rest of the way. Donald pulled away by playing the last 14 holes in 5-under.

11. Rickie Fowler, United States -- Continuing the best stretch of his PGA Tour career, Fowler posted three rounds in the 60s last week and equaled the par of 70 on Saturday en route to a tie for sixth in the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. It was his fourth consecutive top-10 finish, including the first victory of his career in the Wells Fargo Championship and a tie for second in the Players Championship. ... Rickie will try to keep his hot streak going this week when he plays in the Memorial Tournament for the third consecutive year. In his first appearance there in 2010, he nearly took home the trophy. He ran off rounds of 65-66-69, tying the course record for 36 holes, to take a three-stroke lead into Sunday. However, he faltered with a 1-over-par 73 in the final round to finish solo second, three shots behind Justin Rose, who took home the title with a 66. Last year, Fowler opened with a 68 and closed with a 69 but played the middle rounds in 73-74 to finish in a tie for 22nd. ... Fowler opened with 68-68 last week at Colonial but could not keep up with runaway leaders Zach Johnson, the eventual winner, and Jason Dufner on the weekend. He did finish with a solid 69, giving him 10 scores in the 60s in his last 16 rounds and a cumulative score of 43-under in that time. Rickie ranked with the leaders in all categories, hitting roughly two-thirds of the fairways and greens in addition to averaging 28.3 putts per round.

12. Zach Johnson, United States -- Despite taking a two-stroke penalty for failing to replace his mark on the final green before putting out, Johnson captured the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial by one stroke, his eighth victory on the PGA Tour but the first since the same event two years ago. And it's a good thing he holed what appeared to be a routine five-foot putt for par at No. 18, or he would have had to go to a playoff with runner-up Jason Dufner. ... Johnson, who also has two victories on the Valero Texas Open to give him four titles in the Lone Star State, will take a week off but is committed to play in the FedEx St. Jude Classic next week in Memphis for the third consecutive year and the fourth time overall. ... Johnson and Dufner ran away from the field last week in the Colonial, with Zach trailing by one stroke entering the final round despite posting rounds of 64-67-65. Playing solid golf in the final round was good enough to win even though he finished with a 2-over-par 72 because of the penalty. Dufner, who lost five strokes on balls that ended up in the water, was trying to win for the third time in his last four tournaments, but Johnson has been almost as hot. Before ending his two-year non-winning streak, he finished solo second in the RBC Heritage and tied for second in the Players Championship, so he has three top-two finishes in his last four outings. Johnson, the 2007 Masters champion, hit the ball straight enough at demanding Colonial but won it by averaging 25.5 putts per round to lead the field.

13. Bill Haas, United States -- Continuing to play mediocre golf, Haas made the cut right on the number at 72-71 in the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial last week but couldn't get anything going on the weekend and finished in a tie for 55th. That was better than the two missed cuts he had in his last three tournaments, but it's time for him to get going again with the big events of the summer right around the corner. ... Still trying to find the game that took him to the FedEx Cup last year and a thrilling playoff victory over Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley in the Northern Trust Open earlier this season, Haas will play this week for the seventh time in the Memorial Tournament. It will be his 14th event of the season, and it should not be difficult to surpass his previous best at Muirfield Village, a tie for 30th in 2008, when he was in position for a top-10 result before closing with a 5-over-par 77. Haas has broken 70 only twice in his 22 rounds at Jack's Place but not since a third-round 69 in 2008, a streak of 13 rounds in the 70s. ... Haas was right on the cut-line before he hit over the par-3 16th green and made bogey Friday at Colonial, missing his 10-foot putt for par. It seemed he needed a birdie at No. 18 but missed from 11 feet, only to see the cut-line move minutes later and put him through to the weekend. Haas was 3-under through 13 holes on Saturday and playing his best golf of the week, but he finished bogey-par-double bogey and played the weekend in 70-72.

14. Tiger Woods, United States -- Woods was at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., last week to promote the AT&T National, which benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation. The tournament returns to Congressional on June 28-July 1 after being played the last two years at Aronimink Country Club in Newtown Square, Pa., because Congressional was preparing for and then playing host to the U.S. Open, which was won by Rory McIlroy. Woods, who won the AT&T National in 2009, missed both tournaments last year because he was recovering from left leg injuries. ... Tiger spoke with reporters about his recent skid, during which he tied for 40th in the Masters and finished in the same spot in the Players Championship in addition to missing the cut at the Wells Fargo Championship. He again insisted that he is on the right track, those recent speed bumps notwithstanding, and pointed to his victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March. He added that he simply needs to be more efficient, and that pertains to both his ball-striking and putting. He has run hot and cold with both. ... Woods will try to get things headed in the right direction this week at the Memorial Tournament, which he won in 1999, 2000 and 2001 and then again in 2009. He has three other top-four finishes in the tournament but tied for 19th in 2010 and missed the event last year because of his injuries. Tiger needs to regain the form he showed when he finished in the top 20 of his first five tournaments this year, including a tie for second in the Honda Classic, when he closed with a 62.

15. Keegan Bradley, United States -- Trying to get his game back on track after struggling in his last four tournaments, Bradley will play for the second time in the Memorial Tournament this week. He started the season with nine consecutive finishes in the top 25 but has only one in five events since, when he tied for 24th at the HP Byron Nelson Championship his last time out. ... The reigning PGA champion shot 76-72--148 and missed the cut by three strokes at Muirfield Village as a rookie last year, but that came one week after he claimed the first title of his PGA Tour in the Nelson. He has the length off the tee to contend at Jack's Place -- he ranks 16th on the PGA Tour in driving distance this season at 300.7 yards -- but his game is not all about length. All of his vital numbers are so good that he leads the circuit in the all-around ranking, a compilation of eight major statistical categories. ... Keegan came close to winning earlier this year, when he lost to Bill Haas on the second hole of a playoff at the Northern Trust Open, and he is the only player in the top 12 of the U.S. Ryder Cup standings without a victory this season. He ranks seventh, and with the top eight automatically making the team for the matches in September at Medinah, he needs to get going again in order to stay there. Should he not make the top eight, there is a good chance he would be one of Davis Love III's four Captain's Picks as long as he gets his game back on track.

16. Adam Scott, Australia -- After a solid start to his season while playing fewer events than any of the other top players on the PGA Tour, it's time for Scott to pick up the pace after he missed the cut in his last outing, the HP Byron Nelson Championship. Things looked promising when he closed with a 6-under-par 66 to tie for eighth in the Masters, but he has broken 70 only once in his six rounds since heading into the Memorial Tournament this week. ... The Aussie has played six times at Muirfield Village previously and is back after skipping the tournament last year. His best finish was a tie for fourth in 2006, when he shot 6-under-par 66 in the second round and 69 in the last to finish three shots behind winner Carl Pettersson of Sweden. The following year, Scott grabbed the 36-hole lead by posting a sizzling 62 on Saturday even though he missed four putts inside 10 feet, but he could not break 70 in any of his other four rounds and tied for fifth, three strokes behind winner K.J. Choi. ... Scott's abbreviated early schedule was partly by design and partly because he underwent a tonsillectomy late last year that delayed his start. He said recently that it's time to pick up the pace, and he expects to be fresh for what he said will be a demanding 20-week stretch that will carry through the Tour Championship. He recorded four finishes in the top 20 in his first five events this year but admitted that he has yet to play his best for an entire tournament.

17. Charl Schwartzel, South Africa -- Coming back from an extended holiday with his family in South Africa, Schwartzel showed some rust in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, especially when he shot 7-over-par 79 in the third round. However, he rallied with a 67 in the final round to salvage a tie for 18th before he returns to the PGA Tour. ... Schwartzel is another member of both major tours who has made his way back from the BMW Championship in England to play this week in the Memorial Tournament. He has played at Muirfield Village four times previously and last year posted his best finish, a tie for 22nd, even though he could not break 70 in any of his four rounds. The 2011 Masters champion did shoot 4-under-par 68 in round two in 2009 on his way to a tie for 27th, but that is the only time he has broken 70 in 16 rounds on the course. ... Schwartzel was in good shape after opening 69-71 at Wentworth, but it came undone for him in a hurry in the third round. He started bogey-bogey-double bogey and added another double at No. 8 to play the front nine in 5-over 41, and he made only a single birdie over the 18 holes, at No. 4. After that debacle, he started and finished fast on Sunday, carding birdies on three of the first seven holes and three of the last five. The difference in the last two rounds was evident in the numbers as he hit nine fairways on Saturday and 14 on Sunday while needing only 28 putts in the third round compared to 33 in the last.

18. Mark Wilson, United States -- Still trying to find the form that helped him win the Humana Challenge and finish third in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Wilson could not break 70 in any of his four rounds and finished in a tie for 66th in the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. It was better than three missed cuts in his last four outings, but he has finished in the top 25 only once in his last nine events. ... The 37-year-old Wilson will be playing for the 16th time on the PGA Tour this season, more than any other of the top players, when he shows up this week at the Memorial Tournament. He has played five times previously at Muirfield Village with some success, including a chance to win it in 2009, when he shared the 54-hole lead with Matt Bettencourt. However, Wilson closed with a 1-over-par 73 and wound up in a tie for third, four shots behind Tiger Woods, who finished with a 65. Last year, Mark shot 66 in the third round and wound up in a tie for seventh. ... It appeared that Wilson would make the cut comfortably last week at Colonial before he carded bogeys on the seventh and eighth while finishing on the front nine, at that time leaving him only one shot inside the cut-line. It appeared he needed a par at No. 9, where he drove into a greenside bunker and scrambled for that par with a chip to within a foot. When the cut-line moved a little later, he made it by two shots at 71-71, but he then struggled to 72-74 on the weekend.

19. Brandt Snedeker, United States -- Following a week off after a quick trip to Spain, where he tied for fifth as the only American in the Volvo World Match Play Championship, Snedeker will be back on the PGA Tour on Thursday for the Memorial Tournament. The last time he played in the U.S., he missed the cut in the Players Championship, but that is the only time he failed to reach the weekend this season. He has three top-10 finishes and six in the top 25 in 11 events, including his third PGA Tour victory in the Farmers Insurance Open. ... Sneds is playing at Muirfield Village for the fifth time, the last in 2010, and has missed the cut in all four of his previous appearances. When he posted a 72 in the second round two years ago, it was the first and only time that he has equaled par at Jack's Place, where he is a cumulative 19-over-par in his eight rounds. ... Snedeker never has played on the Ryder or Presidents Cup teams but has a chance to be on captain Davis Love's team for the Ryder Cup matches in September. He ranks 12th in the U.S. point standings, and the top eight players will earn spots before Love will select four more with his Captain's Picks. Sneds said one reason he traveled to Spain was to show Love what he can do against Europeans in match play. Routing Thomas Bjorn, a former Ryder Cup player, 5-4, in the first round with borrowed clubs after his were lost in transit was pretty impressive.

20. Webb Simpson, United States -- Simpson has had two weeks off to regroup from his missed cut in the Players Championship and will try to get his season going in the right direction again when he plays this week in the Memorial Tournament. After finishing second in the FedEx Cup standings and on the PGA Tour money list last season, he has been solid with four finishes in the top 10 this year but has not quite had the type of first half he was hoping for. ... Webb is competing at Muirfield Village for the fourth time and last year recorded his best finish, posting a 4-under-par 68 in the final round to tie for seventh. He had failed to break 70 in his first nine rounds on the course. That strong result kick-started a sizzling second half that included eight top-10 finishes and his first two PGA Tour victories in the Wyndham Championship and the Deutsche Bank Championship. ... Simpson's splendid second-half run landed him a spot in the President's Cup for the matches last November at Rolyal Melbourne, where he posted a 3-2 victory to help the United States retain the Cup, and he needs a similar surge to make the U.S. team for the Ryder Cup in September at Medinah. He ranks 23rd in the U.S. point standings, and the top eight players automatically make the team. Even if Simpson doesn't play well enough to earn one of the automatic spots, he needs to convince Davis Love III to make him one of four Captain's Picks.

Others receiving consideration: Jason Day, Australia; Dustin Johnson, United States; Graeme McDowell, Northern Ireland; Ian Poulter, England; Louis Oosthuizen, South Africa; Martin Laird, Scotland; Johnson Wagner, United States; Kyle Stanley, United States; Aaron Baddeley, Australia; Robert Garrigus, United States; Ernie Els, South Africa; Jim Furyk, United States; Kevin Na, United States; Carl Pettersson, Sweden; Ben Curtis, United States; John Huh, United States; Nick Watney, United States.