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Europe were thrashed 19-9 by the United States at Whistling
Straits in Wisconsin as the Americans reclaimed the trophy at
the biennial competition.
Westwood, who has been tipped as a future Team Europe captain,
said he would reverse Padraig Harrington's decision to trim the
number of captain's picks to three.
"My first thought would be four, four, four," said Westwood, who
has won the Ryder Cup seven times with Europe.
"Four (qualifiers) off the European points list, four off the
world list and four picks."
Harrington chose the PGA Championship at Wentworth, one of the
European Tour's flagship events, as the final qualifying event
for Team Europe and Westwood said he would probably have done
things differently.
"There's got to be some sort of qualifying because you want your
players to play under pressure," Westwood said.
"But I just feel like Wentworth is a massive tournament which
should stand on its own and shouldn't have the distraction of it
being the last qualifying event.
"But that's the nice thing — different captains have different
ideas. Padraig has had loads of good points that future captains
can take off him."
(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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