Tony Finau is quietly confident of realising a childhood dream next Monday, and three days before his birthday, in being handed a ‘wildcard’ pick for the USA Ryder Cup team.

Jim Furyk will announce his fourth and final France pick at 9am (US Eastern time) that will complete the final make-up of both 12-man Ryder Cup teams teeing-up on September 28^th in Versailles.

After confirmation in the selection of Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods, Finau is a strong favourite among a small group of players who could win Furyk’s approval.

Tony Finau popular with young fans at this week’s BMW Championship (Photo @tourmiss)

They include Xander Schauffele, and who finished 12^th on the points table, Matt Kuchar (13^th), Kevin Kisner (14^th), Finau (15^th), Kyle Stanley (16^th) and the left-handed Brian Harman (17^th).

Furyk ruled out Kuchar after handing him a vice-captaincy role and with most believing the pick will come from Schauffele or Finau, and with the selection possibly coming down to how well each competes in this week’s BMW Championship at the Aronimink Golf Club in suburban Philadelphia.

“I will just continue to approach it the way I have the last couple weeks and that’s winning the FedExCup,” said Finau who turns 29 next Wednesday.

“It seems to have worked the last couple weeks for me and there’s a lot of variables when you bring Ryder Cup talk into it.

“For someone in my position, but I know if I just keep doing the things I’ve been doing and put together a good week, then hopefully it happens and if it doesn’t, then it’s not an end result, you know, for me to be on the Ryder Cup.

“It’s something that I dreamed of since I was a kid to be able to represent my country and play in the Ryder Cup is what dreams are made of.

“That’s definitely what my dream was as a kid. It would be a special phone call for me if that were to happen but if it didn’t, you know, we’ve got the Tour Championship coming up, we’ve got — there’s so much to look forward to.

“I play some good golf to put myself in this situation and just want to continue that this week.”

And while Finua waits anxiously for a first Ryder Cup, England’s Justin Rose has expressed disappointment Spain’s Rafa Cabrera-Bello was overlooked earlier today by European Team captain, Thomas Bjorn for a second straight European cap.

Cabrera-Bello had finished 10^th on the European qualifying points table in between Ian Poulter (9^th) and Paul Casey (11^th) who were each selected by Bjorn.

And Cabrera-Bello had led for a time late in Monday’s concluding Dell Technologies Championship in Boston.

“I feel a bit sorry for Rafa as he fought hard the last few weeks, Ryder Cups is a big deal to him,” said Rose.

“He’s a great competitor. He’s a good friend of Sergio’s, too. Bittersweet for him. Thomas has obviously picked Sergio which I guess for me the fourth spot that was up in the air. He’s gone with, you can say performance is temporary, class is permanent.”