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JOSE Maria Olazabal is reported to be considering an offer to captain Europe's Ryder Cup team at Celtic Manor in Wales in 2010.

Sandy Lyle is the only person to have announced his interest in the job, but Olazabal has been spoken to recently by European Tour players' committee chairman Thomas Bjorn.

Olazabal was named by Nick Faldo last May as an assistant for September's match in Kentucky, although he said his priority was to try to play his way onto the team.

Since then, however, he has spent seven months out of the game battling arthritic joints.

His return came only two weeks ago.

Lyle will be 52 in two years' time and Olazabal only 44.

Colin Montgomerie appears a certainty for the position when the match goes to Gleneagles in Scotland in 2014 when he will be 51.

Ian Woosnam, captain two years ago, had Lyle as one of his assistants then and recently said he would love to see the Scot in charge when the match was played in Wales for the first time - possibly with himself as vice-captain.

Olazabal already has some captaincy experience, though, having led Continental Europe against Britain and Ireland in the Seve Trophy three years ago.

10:30am Saturday 12th April 2008

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