TPC Boston, MA … Triple Ryder Cup winning star Rory McIlroy has poured cold water on suggestions to alter the European Team selection process.

It’s come to light European Captain, Darren Clarke indicated to Scotland’s Russell Knox that future captains could seek alterations to naming their ‘wildcard picks’ so as to fall in line the current USA Team policy.

And Knox, who was over-looked for a pick in favour of Belgium’s Thomas Pieters, spoke also of possibly incorporating the PGA Tour’s lucrative FedEx Cup Play-Off Series into the European ‘wildcard’ selection process that would avoid any possible Billy Horschel-like scenarios as we saw two years ago.

However, McIlroy is against breaking the European Team winning formula that will see Clarke’s men looking to win a fourth straight encounter against their USA rivals.

Then Ryder Cup rookie Rory McIlroy shows his excitement during the 2010 Ryder Cup in Wales.

“Europe has just won the last three Ryder Cup’s and I see no point in trying to fix something when it’s not broken,” he said ahead of today’s (FRD) opening round of the Deutsche Bank Championship near Boston.

“Darren went from two to three picks this year and that was a pretty big step.

“If it was my decision, the ideal scenario would be to pick the leading 12 Europeans off the World Rankings and just go from there.

“So you have the dozen highest world ranked Europeans playing against the 12 highest world ranked Americans and then go play.

“But that can’t always happen as you do need to pick guys on form.

“And I also find it strange that Darren announces his picks on Tuesday but Davis (Love 111_ doesn’t announce his first three till next Monday night while his last pick is just after the Tour Championship in Atlanta.

“It’s like Europe has shown it’s cards and the USA Team could then very well respond to our picks on the basis of going with a player who is a bit longer off the tee and so on.

“Maybe I am overthinking it but that’s how I sort of look at it and maybe there is good cause for all the picks to be made at the same time.”

McIlroy tees-up in the second of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Play-Off Series looking to draw on his experience in capturing the event in 2012 also at TPC Boston.

However, the biggest concern for the current World No. 5 is still the shortest club in his bag.

“It’s still work in progress with last week a case of just concentrating too much on what I was trying to do with my technique rather than just trying to hole the putts,” he said.

No such concern for Graeme McDowell who arrived at the course Wednesday just an hour ahead of taking his place in the final Pro-Am match.

McDowell’s wife had given birth on Monday to the couple’s second child and a first boy named, Wills.

“Mum and new son doing very well while Dad’s really okay,” he said as he rushed to the tee.