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Europes team to defend the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine in September will contain at least five rookies after the nine automatic qualifiers were decided with a week to spare.Thomas Pieters needed to defend his Czech Masters title and Shane Lowry required a top-four finish in the Wyndham Championship to keep their hopes alive heading into the final qualifying event in Denmark.However, Pieters lost out by a single shot to American Paul Peterson on Sunday and Lowry was certain to finish down the field in North Carolina after a closing 67.And that means Rory McIlroy, Danny Willett, Henrik Stenson, Chris Wood, Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose, Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Andy Sullivan and Matt Fitzpatrick are guaranteed to be on the plane to Minnesota in search of an unprecedented fourth straight win in the biennial event.Willett, Wood, Cabrera-Bello, Sullivan and Fitzpatrick are the rookies, although Willett won the Masters in April and Wood claimed the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth in May.European captain Darren Clarke will name his three wild cards on August 30, with Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer strong favourites to be selected as Clarke has stressed he would favour experience for a contest on American soil.Scotlands Russell Knox and Pieters are understood to be the leading contenders for the final place.Fitzpatrick has been in the qualifying places ever since winning his maiden European Tour title in the British Masters last October, the 21-year-old then claiming the Nordea Masters in June before a worrying dip in form.Its very exciting now, Fitzpatrick said after finishing fifth in Prague. We can look forward to it and get my game in shape.Ive probably been in the team for the longest period of time. It (the qualifying period) started a few weeks before I won at the British Masters and jumped into the team and Ive managed to stay there since then. Its been absolutely phenomenal and Im just delighted to be in the team.Its a great opportunity, Ive got my first one coming up and hopefully I can just keep pushing on my game and getting better. Vans Old Skool Sale . Meanwhile, there were huge victories for Sunderland and West Ham over fellow relegation rivals, leaving the battle to avoid the drop up for grabs with the bottom 11 teams separated by just six points. Eden Hazard and Fernando Torres scored second-half goals to seal a fourth straight victory for Chelsea, which climbed above Arsenal and Manchester City in the standings ahead of their games on Monday and Sunday respectively. Cheap Vans Sk8 Hi Shoes . -- Most satisfying to Russ Smith about No. http://www.vansshoesclearancesale.com/ . PETERSBURG, Fla. Vans Old Skool White . -- The Sacramento Kings are set to become the first major professional sports franchise to accept Bitcoin virtual currency for ticket and merchandise purchases. Vans Old Skool Black Sale . Brad Jacobs and his Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., team took control of the game early. AUBURN, Ala. -- No. 17 Texas A&M and Auburn have each faced a tough nonconference test and another one that wasnt so challenging.Now, they get a chance to discover whether theyve made some progress in the Southeastern Conference Western Division. The Tigers (1-1) and Aggies (2-0) open league play Saturday night at Jordan-Hare Stadium in a matchup of two teams who havent fared so well in the SEC the past couple of seasons.Auburn has lost three straight against Power 5 conference teams since beating Texas A&M last season. The Aggies, meanwhile, get another chance to prove that theyve made progress both with quarterback Trevor Knight and as a defense after ranking among the SECs worst at stopping the run in 2015.The game will be another test cause thats basically where we are as team, Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin said. Everyone waiting to see who we are and what we can do. Our team enjoys that kind of attitude. Thats been kind of the attitude about us since Week One.Thats when the Aggies survived an overtime win over UCLA before routing Prairie View A&M 67-0. Auburn took No. 5 Clemson down to the wire in the opener before rolling over Arkansas State, 51-14.Let the battle for SEC West positioning begin. Neither team has had a winning league record in the past two seasons.Auburn is a slight favorite in the game, but the visiting team has won the last four meetings.It is a little weird, Auburn guard Alex Kozan said. Normally the home team advantage, but 2012 obviously that wasnt going to happen. (In) 2013 we kind of shocked them a little bit, 2014 they shocked us and then 2015 we got them again, so hopefully we can break that little weird streak.With a win, Texas A&M will have started 3-0 in three consecutive seasons for the first time since 1939-41.---Some things to watch when No. 17 Texas A&M and Auburn play on Saturday:BLOCKINNG GARRETT: Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett has one sack in the first two games, but Auburn knows how formidable a pass rusher he is and has two new starting tackles.dddddddddddd It pretty much looks like he was created in a video game to rush the passer, Tigers guard Alex Kozan said. Hes long, athletic and he can bend.DEFENDING AUBURNS RUN: Coach Gus Malzahns Tigers racked up 462 rushing yards in last weeks win over Arkansas State, with tailbacks Kerryon Johnson and Kamryn Pettway both topping 120 yards. Texas A&M has allowed 2.3 yards per carry through two games.What you saw from UCLA was downhill lead, power team and toss, Sumlin said. Different run attack than a Gus Malzahn team. More of a misdirection. Dont get it confused. Its a power attack. But its power and misdirection and get your eyes somewhere. You have to have lot of eye discipline.QB STABILITY: Both Knight and Auburns Sean White appear to have stabilized the quarterback situations. Theyve also each flashed some running ability. White was one of just three Auburn quarterbacks to play against Clemson in Malzahns failed experiment but clearly is the No. 1 guy now, with John Franklin III so far used as essentially a Wildcat QB.FACING AGGIES WRS: Clemsons Mike Williams burned Auburns secondary down the field a number of times, and Texas A&M presents even more receiving threats with Christian Kirk, Josh Reynolds, Ricky Seals-Jones and others.PETTWAYS ENCORE: Pettway hadnt logged a carry for Auburn before last weeks 15-carry, 152-yard coming out party. The 6-foot, 240-pounder provides a definite change of pace to the smaller Johnson but hasnt had a shot at an SEC defense yet.---AP college football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '