Healthy Woods would top Watson’s Ryder Cup wish list

LOUISVILLE — A day after the PGA Championship completed the list of nine automatic entries on the U.S. Ryder Cup team, Tom Watson made clear which golfer tops the list of players he wants among his three captain’s picks. If Tiger Woods is healthy and playing well, Watson said, “I’ll pick him.”

But it will be up to Woods to let Watson know that he can meet those two criteria. When he was asked bluntly if he can trust the greatest golfer of this generation, who withdrew from a tournament Aug. 3 and missed the cut at the PGA because of a back problem, the captain replied just as bluntly, “Absolutely.”