Rose: playing at Gleneagles

My missus will be upset with me - I told her I'd play well and see her back in the States tomorrow, but I can't take the risk.

Justin Rose
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With just one event remaining there are seven players - six of them uncapped and five of them English - competing for the last three automatic places in the European Ryder Cup team.

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The qualification race concludes at the European Tour's Johnnie Walker Championship with Justin Rose, Soren Hansen and Oliver Wilson currently occupying eighth, ninth and 10th.

But Martin Kaymer, Ian Poulter, Ross Fisher and Nick Dougherty could yet make it into the top 10 with a big performance at Gleneagles.

Dougherty has to finish second to have a chance, Fisher needs third, Poulter fifth and Kaymer 26th.

Rose will miss out only if three go past him, but has changed his plans and heads to Scotland rather than back to America for the latest leg of the lucrative FedEx Cup play-off series.

"It's only money - you can't take it with you," said last year's European number one, who finished only joint 34th at the KLM Open in Holland.

Upset

"My missus will be upset with me - I told her I'd play well and see her back in the States tomorrow, but I can't take the risk.

"It's Plan B - it was not on my schedule to play these two weeks in Europe - but I came to do a job. I didn't do it this week, so I'll do it next week.

"It could be a fun week. It should be another windy one, which I'm looking forward to - not!"

Open runner-up Poulter missed the cut at the Barclays tournament on the PGA Tour last week and is coming back to Europe to play at the Johnnie Walker Championship because this week's event in America does not count towards the Ryder Cup.

The seven who have already secured their places are Padraig Harrington, Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood, Henrik Stenson, Robert Karlsson, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Graeme McDowell.

Captain Nick Faldo completes the line-up with two wild card picks next Sunday evening. Darren Clarke and Paul Casey are favourites, which would leave Colin Montgomerie and Paul McGinley among those disappointed.