2010 Ryder Cup Maltbie, and Dottie Pepper. USA Network aired coverage of the singles live on Monday morning. The coverage was produced by corporate sibling NBC, with NBC's announcers being used on the telecast. The European team consisted of: The captain's picks were named on 29 August. In the previous the Ryder Cup had been two wildcard places on the European team, but on 2009 it was announced that this had been increased to three. The United States team consisted of: The team was finalised on when the four wildcards were announced. The team captains were Colin Montgomerie for Europe and Corey Pavin
Ryder Cup usual for the captain to be one of the players. The USA only had two non-playing captains in this period: Walter Hagen in 1937 and Ben Hogan in 1949 while Great Britain had non-playing captains in 1933, 1949, 1951 and 1953. With the change to 18-hole matches and the extension to three days, it became more difficult to combine the roles of captain and player and Arnold Palmer in 1963 was the last playing captain. The captains have always been professional golfers and the only captain who never played in the Ryder Cup was J.H. Taylor, the 1933 British captain.