Tiger Woods is back needing a wild card to the Ryder Cup - all because of a player who has never won on the US Tour.
Jeff Overton's second place in the Greenbrier Classic, an event he lost by one when Australian Stuart Appleby closed with only the fifth 59 in PGA Tour history, lifts him up from 10th to fourth on the American points table.
As a result world number one Woods drops to ninth. Only the top eight earn automatic spots in the team on Sunday week following the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and US PGA, both of which Woods is playing.
Captain Corey Pavin then waits three weeks before naming his four picks for the Celtic Manor match on October 1-3.
Latest United States Ryder Cup standings (top eight qualify on August 15, captain Corey Pavin adds four wild cards on September 7):
1 PHIL MICKELSON 5,768pts
2 JIM FURYK 3,418
3 STEVE STRICKER 3,402
4 JEFF OVERTON 3,277
5 ANTHONY KIM 3,238
6 LUCAS GLOVER 2,980
7 MATT KUCHAR 2,938
8 DUSTIN JOHNSON 2,936
9 Tiger Woods 2,773
10 Hunter Mahan 2,643
11 Ricky Barnes 2,610
12 Ben Crane 2,533
13 Stewart Cink 2,394
14 Nick Watney 2,297
15 Rickie Fowler 2,259
16 JB Holmes 2,219
17 Bubba Watson 2,202
18 Bo Van Pelt 2,156
19 Sean O'Hair 2,122
20 Zach Johnson 2,118
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