Will Woosie open up on barmy Bjorn spat?

THE most fascinating insight from a Ryder Cup pundit this week will be delivered by former European captain Ian Woosnam to golf travel company clients.

Woosnam’s words to Your Golf Travel patrons at a dinner and on the Eurostar taking them over to Paris will be of special interest.

This is because of the brutal attack that current European captain Thomas Bjorn launched on Woosnam for not making the Dane a wildcard pick for the K Club in 2006. Bjorn called the Welshman the ‘most pathetic captain I’ve ever seen’.

Bjorn said: ‘The man is barmy to be captain and not communicate with a team or those in contention at all. I haven’t spoken to him for six months and then I found out that I’m not in the team by watching it on television.

‘He’s not burdened by too many leadership qualities. My relationship with him is completely dead and will remain so.’

When Bjorn announced his four 2018 wildcards he mentioned that all those competing for a place ‘had at least received a phone call’. HOW

the rival Ryder Cup captains handle their seven mandatory press conferences during the week sets the tone for their sides. And judging by their joint showing yesterday at Le Golf National, it could be a cagey affair out on the course. Neither Bjorn nor Jim Furyk gave much away. When asked whether they would play all 12 of their team on the first day, both parroted: ‘You’ll have to wait and see.’ However, Furyk did joke about a group of players waiting in the team room in Atlanta’s Renaissance Hotel before the flight to France and giving a ‘giant roar when Steve Stricker walked in’. Vice-captain Stricker (above) had won a Seniors Tour event in South Dakota, although he was somewhat upstaged by Tiger Woods in the Tour Championship. A Whopping £10million in fees will be taken out of the Wembley proceeds from the proposed sale of the national stadium to Fulham owner Shahid Khan. The FA contested many national Game councillor claims about the sale following a meeting last week to which FA staff were not invited. But they did not dispute the size of the cut that numerous lawyers and consultants such as Rothschild are going to receive. THE

first player to arrive at Le Golf National for the Ryder Cup was Henrik Stenson yesterday morning. The European team wildcard pick, who has had a difficult season hampered by an elbow injury, was quickly on to the practice range for a long session with coach Pete Cowen.