Fisher hoping to net Ryder Cup spot

Ross Fisher has played 1,658 holes chasing a Ryder Cup debut over the past year. But with two weeks to go what a difference it could make if he was allowed to play just two of them again. The European Open champion goes into his defence of the KLM Open in Holland tomorrow 13th in the points race and if he can win the title at Kennemer again he could leap to eighth. Ten players after next week’s Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles automatically qualify for Nick Faldo’s team, with the captain then adding two wild cards. Fisher would already be well clear in eighth and have the champagne on ice, though, if he had just bogeyed the final hole of both the HSBC Champions event in Shanghai last November and The Open last month. In the first of those the 27-year-old from Wentworth was leading Phil Mickelson by one with one... [read full story]