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Golf Ranking points accumulated
between 27 August 2018 (Dell
Technologies Championship) and 18
August 2019 (BMW Championship) and
four captain's picks made in early
November. This was a change from 2017
when
selection was based on the leading
players in the Official World Golf
Ranking.
Johnson and Steve Stricker as his
assistants. Els chose K. J. Choi, Geoff
Ogilvy, Trevor Immelman and Mike
Weir as his assistants.
show and reveal the winners of nine
categories to the 10,000-strong audience
and millions of viewers at home.
SUNDAY 1
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Yas Marina
Unites States Team
The United States team features the 8
players who earned the most official
FedExCup points from the 2017 BMW
Championship through to the 2019
BMW Championship, with points earned
in the 2018–19 season counting double,
and four captain's picks. Points for events
in the FedEx Cup Playoffs are weighted
the same as WGC events. The four
captain's picks were made in early
November.
Captains
Tiger Woods will be the captain of the
U.S. team, and Ernie Els will be the
captain of the International team.
Woods chose Fred Couples, Zach
THURSDAY 26
King George VI Chase, Kempton
Sports Personality of
the Year
The 66th Sports Personality of the Year
will be chosen by BBC TV viewers and
bookmakers are already offering odds
for the winner. The live show will be
broadcast from Aberdeen for the first
time on December 15 and regular BBC
sports presenters – Gabby Logan, Gary
Lineker and Clare Balding – will host the
36
Nominees were announced in early
December but the bookies are already
sure that cricketer Ben Stokes, athletes
Dina Asher-Smith and Katrina Johnson-
Thompson, rugby players Owen Farrell
and Alun Wyn-Jones, and Formula 1 star
Lewis Hamilton will be in the mix for the
top prize of Sports Personality of the
Year.