NEWCASTLE, Northern Ireland, May 26 (Reuters) - Rather than experimenting with a new qualifying format, European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke plans to stick to a winning formula when he picks the European team for the 2016 competition.
Clarke said he would adopt fellow Irishman Paul McGinley's victorious arrangement which spurred Europe to a five-point triumph at Gleneagles last year.
Clarke's 12-man team will be made up of four players from a European' points table, five from a World Points table and three wildcard picks.
"I gave the qualifying process a lot of thought, I looked at a lot of stats and I looked at a lot of comparisons from what teams would have been like had the qualifying process been slightly different in past years," Clarke told reporters ahead of this week's Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.