EUROPE RYDER CUP SKIPPER FOR GLENEAGLES TO BE NAMED QUICKLY ON TUESDAY.

FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WEBSITE

By JAMES CORRIGAN 
José María Olazábal’s successor as Europe Ryder Cup captain will be announced immediately after a vote is taken next week in order to avoid the betting controversy which blighted the appointment of Colin Montgomerie. 

Montgomerie's appointment as Ryder Cup captain in 2009 emerged after a flurry of wagers on him

 “If we come to a decision in Abu Dhabi we will have to announce it that night,” said Thomas Bjorn, the chairman of the 15-man Tournament Players Committee which will meet in the United Arab Emirates capital on Tuesday evening.

The Tour is desperate not to have a repeat scenario of the farce in 2009 when Montgomerie’s appointment came out thanks to a series of bets forcing his price to tumble in the hours after the meeting.

“It was a bit daft, if not unseemly,” Montgomerie told Telegraph Sport. “We were told to keep it hush but then from being a rank outsider I was suddenly huge odds-on. We could do without a recurrence.”

Bookmakers last night welcomed the move. “It’s definitely wise,” said a Ladbrokes spokesman. “We took the market down a while ago as we didn’t want to leave ourselves exposed.”

Bjorn will have the casting vote if there is a deadlock. The race for Gleneagles 2014 seems to be between Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley, with Montgomerie also mentioned after United States reinstated a former winning captain in Tom Watson.

Meanwhile, Rory McIlroy has set up a foundation to help children’s charities around the world. For each of his first six events in 2013, his bag will carry the name and logo of a children’s charity and will be auctioned.