Ryder Cup reaction on Twitter

As soon as news of Paul McGinley's appointment as European Ryder Cup Captain broke, players took to Twitter to offer there congratulations. Here are a selection of the Tweets.

TomWatson‏@TomWatsonPGAPro<br />Congrats to Paul McGinley on your R/C Captaincy. Looking forward to our future competition. You're a class act.

RoryMcilroy‏@McIlroyRory<br />Common sense prevailed in the end.... Paul McGinley 2014 European Ryder Cup captain!!! Couldn't be happier for him... Roll on Gleneagles

GraemeMcDowell‏@Graeme_McDowell<br />Congrats to '14 Ryder Cup Captain Paul McGinley. He will be a thoughtful, articulate, prepared, motivated, fair and respected captain. #euro

LukeDonald‏@LukeDonald<br />Very happy for Paul McGinley, his enthusiasm and attention to detail will serve Team Europe very well. #2014RyderCup

NicolasColsaerts‏@Coelsss<br />congrats to Paul McGinley...well deserved captaincy

Paullawrie‏@PaulLawriegolf<br />Huge congrats to paul mcginley ryder cup 2014 captain. Hope I'm in your team

IanPoulter‏@IanJamesPoulter<br />Paul Mcginley Ryder Cup captain truly really happy that he has given the opportunity to captain the 2014 Ryder Cup team.

MatteoManassero‏@ManasseroMatteo<br />And now we have it ... Congratulations to Paul McGinley 2014 Ryder Cup captain ! Hope to be part of it #RyderCup2014

EdoardoMolinari‏@DodoMolinari<br />I am sure that Paul will be a fantastic captain! Well done to him...and now it's time to work even harder to be part of his team!

SorenHansen‏@Hansen_Soren<br />Congrats to Paul. He will be great and has the backing of all the players and the tour. 100% RC record and as a cap!! He is a true leader!

ScottJamieson‏@scottjamieson54<br />Congrats Paul McGinley, def gets my vote, will be a great Ryder Cup captain.

CallumMacaulay‏@birdieblitz83<br />Glad Paul McGinley is new RC captain. Can only dream big and hope I'm in his team. Two years......

markfoster‏@markfozgolf<br />huge congratulations to paul mcginley. i played under his captaincy in the seve trophy and he's a class act. #popularchoice

AlastairForsyth‏@Forsythgolf<br />Well done to Paul Mcginley and well done to the players committee.. Right man for the job.. Common sense

LorenzoGagli‏@Lorenzo_Gagli<br />Congratulations to Paul Mcginley...new @RyderCupTeamEUR Captnain in #Gleneagles

JorgeCampillo‏@jcampillogolf<br />Got paired with the new Ryder Cup captain for the first two rounds of the Abu Dhabi golf Championship. #CaptainMcGinley

IanWoosnam‏@IWoosnam<br />Thanks to everybody who has followed me today, I think we got the right man for the job, Ryder cup captain, Paul Mcginley 2014, thank god

SandyLyle‏@SandyLyle1<br />Congratulations and good luck to our 2014 Ryder Cup Captain Paul McGinley.

DavidDuval‏@david59duval<br />Congrats to McGinley for the captaincy. We competed first 20 plus years ago in the Walker Cup.

GaryPlayer‏@garyplayer<br />Congrats to Irishman Paul McGinley on being selected as European Ryder Cup Captain for 2014.Team player, players choice, my best.

AlisonNicholas‏@Ali_eurocaptain<br />Congrats to Paul McGinley great appointment - he came and supported the Solheim top man and gave us advice!