Kohler, WI (My Sportsbook) - The 2004 U.S. Ryder Cup team will be finalized Monday morning at 10:00 a.m. (et) when captain Hal Sutton will announce his two captain's picks.
There was plenty of shuffling going on Sunday at the PGA Championship, where points are doubled because it's a major championship. The top-10 after Sunday made the team automatically and two players battled to make the team at Whistling Straits.
Chris DiMarco lost in the playoff, but improved to eighth on the points standing. Chris Riley's tie for fourth was enough to get him to 10th. Fred Funk survived despite missing the 36-hole cut.
It will be the first Ryder Cup for all three.
Steve Flesch and Jay Haas were in the top-10 heading into the PGA Championship, but will now have to wait until Monday morning. Flesch would have made his first Ryder Cup, while 50-year-old Haas participated in the matches in 1983 and 1995.
Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Davis Love III, Jim Furyk, Kenny Perry, David Toms and Chad Campbell, all Ryder Cup veterans except rookies Perry and Campbell, rounded out the top-10.
Among those under consideration by Sutton will be: Justin Leonard, a two-time Ryder Cupper who also lost in the playoff, Scott Verplank, who made the cut but is battling foot injuries, Jerry Kelly, who missed the cut and was ninth on the list two weeks ago, and Jeff Maggert, who skipped the PGA Championship due to the birth of his twins on Tuesday.
The European Ryder Cup team will be finalized in two weeks.
The Ryder Cup is scheduled for September 17-19 at Oakland Hills Country Club.
DECLAWED?
Tiger Woods narrowly extended his PGA Tour record for consecutive cuts made to 129 on Friday, thanks to a pair of birdies in his final three holes.
On Sunday, he also extended his record of consecutive majors without a win to 10.
Actually, his first-round, three-over 75 left him out of it, but a pair of 69s and a final-round 73 left him in a tie for 24th place at two-under-par 286.
"It's frustrating because I didn't win, simple as that," said Woods, whose last major triumph came at the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage. "I felt like I was playing so well coming into this event, and I was. It's unfortunate that I just didn't continue that way, that first day when I played decent, but putted so poorly."
One streak Woods extended was his total weeks atop the World Golf Rankings. Monday morning, Woods will be first for the 332nd week, breaking Greg Norman's previous record.
If Ernie Els took second by himself, the Big Easy would have been first.
Despite the fact that Woods will go major less for the second consecutive year, he is not ready to give up on the season. He won the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in February and knows there are still a few big tournaments left to play.
"We have two World Golf Championships, a Tour Championship and a Ryder Cup," said Woods. "There's four big events coming up and hopefully I can play the way I've been playing and get it together."
The quest begins next week at the WGC-NEC Invitational at Firestone Country Club. Darren Clarke is the defending champion, but Woods is a three-time former winner.
WHISTLING A DIFFERENT TUNE
In Thursday's first round, everyone was shocked out how easily Whistling Straits played. Darren Clarke fired a seven-under 65 as the wind was down and PGA officials moved up several tees to try and make the course as fair as possible.
The conditions was pretty similar on Friday and Saturday. The wind blew, albeit not that hard, and the course played easier than most expected.
So on Sunday, with Vijay Singh teeing off at 12-under par for the championship, PGA officials let Whistling Straits show its teeth. The wind blew harder than it had all week, and several holes played as long as they could.
The par-three third moved from 181 to 193 yards, the par-three seventh went from 221 yards to 233, the par-three 12th was lengthened from 143 to 148 yards and the 17th played at 236 yards from the 223 it played earlier in the week.
All together, Whistling Straits played at 7,526 yards on Sunday.
* Vijay Singh became the fifth active player with at least three major titles. Tiger Woods (eight), Nick Faldo (six), Nick Price (three) and Ernie Els (three) are the others.
* Vijay Singh's final-round 76 was the highest score by an eventual winner since the PGA Championship moved to four rounds of stroke play in 1958.
* This was the first playoff since Tiger Woods bested Bob May in 2000. That was the first year a three-hole aggregate playoff decided the winner. The last three-man playoff at the PGA Championship was 1978 when John Mahaffey outdueled Jerry Pate and Tom Watson and won on the second extra hole.
* The hardest hole for the week was the 518-yard, par-four 15th. It played to an average of 4.3493 for the championship, while the easiest hole at the final major of the year was No. 16. The par-five played to a four-round average of 4.7226.
* Chip Sullivan took low club professional honors. He shot a one-under 70 to finish the tournament at one-under-par 287. Roy Biancalana struggled to a seven-over 79 in the final round and came in at plus-11, while Jeff Coston carded a five-over 77 on Sunday and made it through at 13-over-par 301.
