THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

Going to be awful long time before we get anywhere winning this again. Doubt I'll ever see it.

They always say that. Somehow we manage it pretty often even though they have higher rated players.

This never got a reply but thought I'd ask it again while the Ryder Cup is taking place (and so far going as donmentor predicted).

Looking at the rankings, there's quite a number of players in the top 70 or so not eligible because they're from South Africa, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Japan, South Korea, etc. With sport ever widening up nowadays, and giving the less traditional continents more opportunities, has there been talk of further extending the Ryder Cup to include players from Asia, Africa, Oceania, etc? And how they'd divide the teams to try and make it equal?

I wasn't asking it from a 'would it help Europe?' viewpoint. As you say, the continent v country balance has been pretty even over the years. I was asking if it's been discussed that it's only fair to include the players from the other continents as they're currently being excluded at the moment? Only at that point, if the other continents come in, was there an issue of 'how would they divide the newcomers to keep it fairly even?'

EDIT: I see the Presidents Cup is a tournament between USA and the Rest of the World (minus Europe) - so I assume that's a (lesser) tournament that attempts to include the other continents in a similar way while still allowing the Ryder Cup to stick with just Europe?

Remember that the Ryder Cup used to be GB & I v USA. We’ve already changed it once to include Europe.