Woods - I will accept wild card

Tiger Woods now says he will play in the Ryder Cup if American captain Corey Pavin offers him a wild card.

Just two days after finishing next-to-last and with a career-worst 18 over par total at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, the world number one presented a totally different picture at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.

From saying on Sunday he would not want to be at Celtic Manor playing the way he was, Woods answered simply "Yes" when asked if he would accept a captain's pick.

And he does not rule out getting his act together and climbing back into an automatic qualifying place in this week's USPGA Championship on the banks of Lake Michigan - the last counting event for the United States side.

Woods, currently 10th on their table and needing to be in the top eight to take the matter out of Pavin's hands, said: "Hopefully I won't be a pick. I would like to be able to play myself onto that team."

He refused, though, to confirm that Justin Rose's coach Sean Foley is the man he has turned to for help in putting the pieces back together. On the course, at least.

Foley also coaches Sunday's winner Hunter Mahan and Sean O'Hair and they were Woods' two playing partners in practice.

The Florida-based teacher said himself to one reporter it was "a possibility" that he would work with Woods, whose previous coach Hank Haney left him in May.

But Woods then commented: "Certainly it's a possibility, no doubt. But there's also a lot of other coaches out there that's a possibility as well.

"I wanted to have him take a look at it today on video so I can take a look at it and that's what we did. I'm heading in the right direction, so I'm pretty excited about that."