Chris Wood reckons that Europes vice captains will kick the life into anybody on the Ryder Cup team who isnt on top of his game before the first shot is hit on Friday. Wholesale Tampa Bay Buccaneers Jerseys .But the BMW Championship winner is not worried. He has been so excited about playing in the competition that he has been watching highlights of the dramatic 2012 Medinah edition in bed at night.Woods focus has been pretty impressive too. When he talked to ESPN, he had forgotten that the last time he played at Hazeltine -- at the 2009 PGA Championship -- he had a brush with the law on the way.It was probably the first time I traveled to the States on my own, he said. I had quite messy hair, backpack on and had just got off a 10-hour flight. The sheriff decided to pull me in and sit me in a room for two hours.You cant blame them [the police], because they are only trying to keep everybody safe, but for a 21-year-old lad, it was quite intimidating.Im sure it will be slightly quicker to get through this time and I wont be standing with 300 people, Wood added. I wont be in my flip-flops and with long hair. Hopefully, they can sneak us round the back and into a car.The European team arrived at Minneapolis airport early afternoon local time on Monday, and Wood was one of six Ryder Cup rookies among them.For some, having so many players lacking experience of the competitions unique atmosphere has been seen as a disadvantage; by contrast, the Team USA roster had just two competition rookies -- Brooks Koepka and captain Davis Love IIIs final wild-card pick Ryan Moore.The enthusiasm of players such as Wood, however, is hard to knock.Even if youre not feeling ready for the Ryder Cup, I think the whole experience will lift you, he said.Captain Darren Clarke and the vice captains -- particularly Ian Poulter -- I would have thought would kick the life into you if anybody wasnt quite on their game, but I dont think Ill be in that position.To say Im excited about it is an understatement, Wood continued. Weve all seen it, and Ive been watching the Medinah highlights on my iPad just before I go to sleep. For me, that is the one to watch: It was so amazing and inspirational. To know that Im going to be a part of that ...The whole team environment, I absolutely love, and to feel part of that for an entire week, as an individual sportsman, is unique. I cannot wait.The mental side of the contest at Hazeltine will be important, from the way players handle the crowd and media to the way they relate to their teammates and respond to their rivals.Wood has been using a performance coach for several years now and has a specific session planned to get him thinking as a team player, rather than the individual he has to be on the golf course the rest of the year.He has also talked to Clarke and vice captain Thomas Bjorn, and he has been eagerly anticipating spending more time with the European teams senior people.It will be like being a sponge for me, listening to everything, Wood said. Im really excited to hear what Poulter has to say in the team room. We all know what hes done in the Ryder Cup, and for a rookie, if you want to know how to handle it, perform and feel that passion, hes the man.Even if I just get two or three things, it will have been worth it, Wood added. Sitting and chatting to one or two players and vice captains is probably going to be more valuable than hitting balls on the range for an hour.Psychology is not for everyone, but the mental side has always been a strength of my game. If you do the basics well, you dont need an awful lot of coaching. John Lynch Jersey . -- Arizona raced out to a big lead and did not back off, hitting the accelerator instead. 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The ninth-year pro is a hand-on-the-ground end now in the more traditional 4-3, and his marching orders are simple: Get the quarterback. Thats not to say Ware wont occasionally drop back in coverage the way he did more frequently under former defensive co-ordinator Rob Ryan the past two years. In fact, he was doing it during camp practice Tuesday. But theres no question new defensive co-ordinator Monte Kiffin and new line coach Rod Marinelli want Ware to focus on what he does best. Wares had seven straight double-digit sack seasons and has 111 sacks for his career, just three shy of Harvey Martins team record from three decades ago. "His passion for pass rushing is really something," Marinelli said. "Guy lives it every day. You just want guys to live this stuff. To live it and be able to wake up in the morning and youre getting up and, Man, I get to go rush today." Ware was waking up sore every day by the end of last season. He started every game for the seventh time in his eight pro seasons, but he wasnt himself because of a shoulder injury as the Cowboys dropped their final two games and missed the playoffs for the third straight year. The four-time All-Pro still led Dallas with 11.5 sacks, but it was a drop of eight from the previous season. He had a career-high 20 in 2008. "I feel like it wasnt enough because I didnt have an opportunity to get to the end," Ware said. "I wasnt effective enough. This year I feel like a solid, solid player, ready to go out there and play and ready to get it." Ware had off-season shoulder surgery, and he gets a year older during training camp because his birthday is in late July. He pointed out on his own last week that he was turning 31, which maybe was his way of saying he has quite a few years lleft. Buccaneers Jerseys China Cheap. 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He essentially adopted a Dallas-area high school team for the playoffs last year, spending a day with Lancaster players before the team made a run to a state championship game. The closer he gets to Smiths record, the more his personable demeanour will get play nationally. His only rival for goodwill in the community is Jason Witten. Coach Jason Garrett would argue theres a reason Ware and Witten are the next two players in the Hall of Fame conversation after last weekends induction of offensive lineman Larry Allen. "Hes quick, hes fast, hes explosive, hes strong, hes long," Garrett said of Ware. "I can keep going and going and going but what makes DeMarcus Ware great is the same thing that makes Witten great. The kind of people they are. Thats where the conversation starts for me." For Ware, the conversation about pass rushing starts just about anywhere. NOTES: CB Brandon Carr missed practice Tuesday for the birth of his child. 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