USA Ryder Cup captain, Davis Love 111 has today named Scott Verplank and Jeff Sluman as his two additional vice-captains.

Verplank and Sluman now join Mike Hulbert and Fred Couples who he had named earlier this year.

“I obviously am going to need a lot of help with those decisions,” said Love in a press conference this morning in Charleston.

Davis Love 111 names Jeff Sluman and Scott Verplank as further Medinah vice-captains. (Photo - Eoin Clarke/www.golffile.ie)

“I have Mike Hulbert and Fred Couples announced as assistant captains, but I would like to announce today Scott Verplank and Jeff Sluman have agreed to be assistant captains; two close friends of mine, guys that have been around the game a long time.

“Other than Scott, who has played Ryder Cup, we have got guys that have been captains of teams and assistant captains.  Mike Hulbert with Curtis Strange back when there was only one assistant and now we have moved up to four.  But these are guys that I trust.  They are close friends of mine.  They are very engaged already, given me a lot of great advice.

“In fact, Jeff Sluman’s going to get over to Medinah this week for me and take a look around, because we heard José Maria was over there, so I’m going to send Jeff over there to see what he’s doing.  (Laughter).

“It’s nice to have a local with Jeff and Linda Sluman right there in town.  And Jeff and I spent a lot of time in Wales talking about this Ryder Cup already.  He’s been a big supporter of mine over the last two years, and great that we added he and Scott Verplank to our team, and we are excited and ready to go.”