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- Tweet LibertyLed by a certain name-changing wide receiver, athletes revealed more of themselves than everRebecca Shore | December 21, 2009
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Faldo's Pro Choice In a move akin to asking for strokes on the 18th tee, Europe's top players are lobbying to increase from two to as many as four the number of wild-card picks allotted to Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher. "I think we have to move the goalposts," Nick Faldo said at last week's Buick Open. "For the good of the game, we need to field what we feel is the strongest team." Since 1985, the European captain had been awarded three wild-card picks for his 12-player squad. But that number was lowered to two for '95, giving the two sides the same number of wild cards and providing a bigger incentive for Europe's top players to play Euro Tour events. "The players have to prove they are playing well, and the best way is to finish in the top 10," said Gallacher, who will reveal his picks on Aug. 28. But with only two selections, Gallacher has several problems. First, Faldo (16th) and Ian Woosnam (12th) are not in the top 10, and an injured José María Olazábal is hanging on at No. 10. Also, Barry Lane and Jesper Parnevik are playing well enough to warrant consideration. Lane recently upset Seve Ballesteros and Bernhard Langer in the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf matches. Like Faldo, Parnevik plays the PGA Tour full time, and he has been told by Gallacher that he is a candidate for a wild-card pick. His five-stroke victory in last week's Scandinavian Masters only strengthened his position. Gallacher said he is confident with a top 10 that includes David Gilford, Per-Ulrik Johansson, Mark James and Philip Walton. "Most of the top 10 players I want are up there already, and no one but Ollie is injured," he said. Apparently, Gallacher and Faldo are looking at two different teams. Hair Today... For the average visitor, getting skinned in Scandinavia means paying a stiff sales tax. Last week in Sweden, a chrome-domed John Daly showed why he is not your garden variety PGA Tourist. The British Open champion, for whom every day is a bad hair day, showed up bald at the Scandinavian Masters in Barseback, Sweden. Why the shave job? "I got bored with people telling me I needed a haircut," he said before barely making the cut. Daly shot rounds of 67 and 69 on the weekend to finish ninth.    
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