By Mike Cormack

Sportsnet.ca

OAKVILLE -- Could a Champions Tour player make next year's USA Ryder Cup team? Team captain Corey Pavin isn't ruling it out.

On the heels of 59-year-old Tom Watson's second-place finish at last week's British Open, Pavin told sportsnet.ca he isn't ruling out the possibility, even if it is an unlikely one.

"I don't take anything off the table. Everything's on the table. Everybody's going to have a chance in my book," he said Tuesday at Glen Abbey, the site of this week's RBC Canadian Open. "You'd have to do something pretty special on the Champions Tour to draw a pick from any captain."

Pavin, who was playing last Sunday in the Greater Milwaukee Open while Watson and Stewart Cink were battling it out at Turnberry, said he was "glued" to updates he was receiving in the middle of his round. And even though Watson was unable to seal the deal, Pavin, the 1995 U.S. Open champion, feels someone over 50 is going to win a major someday.

"I think with guys staying in shape longer and playing longer, it'll happen eventually. I thought it was going to happen Sunday."

Pavin added it will take a lot more than one magical week for a player 50 or over to be considered for his squad.

"It would have to be something pretty spectacular over the whole course of the year and they'd probably have to do something on the regular too as well," said Pavin.

The oldest man to play on a U.S. Ryder Cup team was Ray Floyd, who had just turned 51 when he was chosen as a captain's pick for the 1993 matches in England. Pavin was a teammate of Floyd's that year. The 1993 U.S.A. captain that chose Floyd? Tom Watson.