Ok, it hasn’t been exactly the best season in his career (no wins at all much less a championship) and his personal life could be better (the marriage ended and he is said to be in another rather rocky relationship – with Steve Williams, his caddy).  He did not even automatically qualify this time for the Ryder Cup and he needs to finish within the top 5 in the Deutsche Bank tournament to even stand a chance of playing in Atlanta during the Tour Championship, but, Corey Pavin, the Ryder Cup captain, still chose to go with experience and named him to the team.

The team obviously needs some of that experience as even the automatic qualifiers, Bubba Watson, Matt Kuchar, Jeff Overton and Dustin Johnson have not played in the Ryder Cup before and this will be Tiger’s sixth time. Some of you may be thinking that he does not have a good record at the Cup but neither does Mickelson and Woods actually does have a winning record when it comes to the singles matches.

The young golfer from Ireland, Rory Mcllroy claims that he relishes the chance to face Tiger; claiming that anyone playing for the European team said they would like their chances playing against him unless his game drastically improves by that time.

And, don’t forget Tiger Woods is pretty much the biggest story in golf and a big driver when it comes to television ratings so many will tune into the game just hoping to see him fail and others will watch hoping to see him win; either way they will watch and that’s what it’s all about.