"Nobody's heard from him"

Doug Ferguson considers all of the selection candidates for Paul Azinger and says he could pick four rookies. I'm looking for Stricker, Mediate, Mahan and Holmes to get picked.

How anyone could possibly know is hard to say since Azinger isn't talking as Steve Elling notes:

Four of the players on Azinger's supposed short list said they haven't spoken with the captain in weeks -- if at all.

"I don't even know if he has my phone number," American veteran Scott Verplank said.

The buzz all week at the Deutsche Bank Championship has been about the final formation of the two teams -- it's the first time the U.S. team hasn't been set at the PGA Championship -- but the phones have certainly not been buzzing.

"Nobody's heard from him," said Steve Stricker, who is 10th in the world rankings and considered the closest thing to a lock to make the team. "I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing."