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SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – After a 10-year absence from one of golf’s biggest events, Paul Casey is savoring his Ryder Cup return.
The Englishman played on three straight European squads between 2004-08, but he was famously left off Colin Montgomerie’s 2010 squad despite being ranked inside the top 10 in the world. That sparked a domino effect that ultimately saw Casey rescind his European Tour membership to focus solely on the PGA Tour, making him ineligible for the matches in 2016.
But Casey was lured back into the fold, both by captain Thomas Bjorn and European Tour CEO Keith Pelley, and he reinstated his European Tour membership last year.