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Bradley Dredge is Montgomerie's final Goodwill pick

Colin Montgomerie, team captain for the Ryder Cup countries at the inaugural Goodwill Trophy, has announced that his eighth pick for the innovative team matchplay event will be Bradley Dredge of Wales. The reigning WGC World Cup and Omega European Masters Champion joins a side that will see Europeans and Americans unite on the same team for the first time ever in team matchplay golf.

The Goodwill Trophy, an innovative team matchplay tournament, will be played on the Jack Nicklaus-designed World Cup course at Mission Hills Golf Club, China on 13th and 14th November 2006. The tournament, which is a joint venture between Mission Hills and The Celtic Manor Resort in South Wales, will be played the following year on the new Ryder Cup course at The Celtic Manor Resort.

33 year-old Dredge, currently ranked 51st on the Official World Golf Rankings, joins England's Luke Donald, Paul Casey and Nick Dougherty, Chris DiMarco of the United States, Sweden's Henrik Stenson and Alejandro Canizares of Spain to complete Montgomerie's side to take on an international side led by South Africa's Retief Goosen.

Ryder Cup countries skipper Colin Montgomerie said: "Bradley is having a superb year so I am delighted that he's accepted my invitation to join the Ryder Cup countries team at the Goodwill Trophy. As a reigning WGC-World Cup champion, he has experience of succeeding in international team golf and his win at the Omega European Master demonstrates that he is currently in a very rich vein of form".

Bradley Dredge said: "Being selected for the Ryder Cup countries at the first ever Goodwill Trophy is a highlight of what has been a very successful year for me so far. Playing alongside great players such as Colin Montgomerie and Chris DiMarco in a tournament of this stature will be a terrific experience and a very welcome one as Stephen Dodd and I prepare to defend the WGC-World Cup in Barbados in December".

Dredge's eight-shot victory margin at the European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre represented the largest of the season on The European Tour and was his second victory on the Tour's international schedule following his triumph at the 2003 Madeira Island Open, which was also secured by eight strokes. His partnership with Stephen Dodd at the WGC-World Cup in Portugal in November 2005 saw them share the $1.4 million first prize after rain and high winds caused the cancellation of the final day's play.

Players named so far as members of Retief Goosen's International team are China's Lian-Wei Zhang, Michael Campbell of New Zealand, Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee and KJ Choi of Korea. The identities of the remaining players to contest the Goodwill Trophy will be revealed in the coming days.

November 3, 2006