Player and Nicklaus announce captain's
selections for The Presidents Cup

Player picks Canadian Weir, Australia's O'Hern; two Presidents Cup rookies get nod from Nicklaus

(PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.) - The final four players for next month's Presidents Cup were determined this morning as International Team Captain Gary Player and U.S. Team Captain Jack Nicklaus each announced their two captain's selections. Player chose Nick O'Hern from Australia and Mike Weir, who will be playing The Presidents Cup on home soil in Canada. Nicklaus selected Lucas Glover and Hunter Mahan, who will both be making their Presidents Cup debuts.

U.S. Captain Jack Nicklaus at the 2005 Presidents Cup.

The seventh Presidents Cup will be held Sept 27-30 at The Royal Montreal Golf Club in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The top-10 international players (excluding those eligible for the European Ryder Cup Team) from the Official World Golf Ranking after the conclusion of the PGA Championship automatically made the International Team. Stuart Appleby, who was 12th in the International Team standings at the start of the PGA Championship, secured the final automatic spot after his tie for 12th at Southern Hills. O'Hern finished 11th in the International Team standings, and Weir finished 20th.

Weir joins four past President Cup participants who were named captain's selections after finishing 20th or lower in the standings: Tsukasa Watanabe (20th, 1994 International Team); Fulton Allem (22nd, 1994 International Team); Paul Azinger (24th, 2000 U.S. Team); and Trevor Immelman (22nd, 2005 International Team). The 2007 event will mark Weir's fourth-straight appearance in The Presidents Cup, while O'Hern, one of four Australians on the International Team, will be playing for the second time.

The top-10 U.S. players who earned the most official PGA TOUR money from Aug. 15, 2005, through the PGA Championship (with money earned in 2007 counting as double) automatically made the U.S. Team. Glover was 10th going into the PGA Championship, but was knocked down to 11th after Woody Austin's second-place finish at the season's final major vaulted him from 18th to 10th in the standings for the U.S. Team. Mahan finished 14th in the standings.

Nicklaus' selection of two Presidents Cup rookies marks only the second time in the event's history that a U.S. captain has chosen two players with no previous Presidents Cup experiences (1996 was the first, when Arnold Palmer picked David Duval and Kenny Perry; statistic does not include 1994, the first year of the event). Glover and Mahan join Austin and Zach Johnson as first-time Presidents Cup participants on this year's U.S. Team.

The final roster of both teams follows:

The combined record of the 10 International Team members with past Presidents Cup experience (Ogilvy and Sabbatini are competing for the first time) is 54-56-14, and those 10 players have made a total of 26 Presidents Cup appearances. The combined record of the eight U.S. Team members with previous Presidents Cup experience is 43-44-12, and they account for 21 Presidents Cup appearances. Vijay Singh and Phil Mickelson are the only two players in this year's event who have competed in all six previous Presidents Cups.

The Presidents Cup, a team match play competition featuring 24 of the world's top golfers - 12 from the United States and 12 from around the world, excluding Europe - is held every two years, and since 1996 has alternated between United States and international venues. The Presidents Cup was developed to give the world's best non-European players an opportunity to compete in international team match-play competition. The U.S. Team has won four of the six previous Presidents Cups, and the only outright win by the International Team came at the 1998 event in Melbourne. The 2003 Presidents Cup ended in a tie.

A limited amount of tickets for the 2007 Presidents Cup remain for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, and a limited number of corporate hospitality tables are also available. For more information on remaining tickets or corporate hospitality tables, patrons can visit www.presidentscup.com or call 1-877-PREZ-CUP (773-9287).

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