Writing here in the scotsman.com, John Huggan holds U.S. Ryder Cup Captain Tom Lehman to the fire for, among other things, his flirtation with the idea of being a playing captain come September.

"More than one former skipper has pointed out the folly of even attempting to play and captain at the same time," Huggan writes. "Apart from anything else, the two roles are logistically exclusive. ... Still, none of the above seems to be putting the five-time PGA Tour winner off."

Huggan also details a few incidents from Lehman's past - "behaviour that can only be described as unacceptably ill-tempered."

About Lehman's "unprovoked attack on his entirely innocent golf bag" at the WGC Match Play Championship, Huggan wrote: "This isn't the first time Lehman has lost the plot under pressure. Nor is it the first time he has failed to live up to his self-proclaimed and supposedly deeply-held religious convictions."

And he saves a good bit of venom for Lehman's "part in - and subsequent strident defence of - the indefensible when a large proportion of the 1999 US Ryder Cup side took it upon themselves to charge in premature celebration across the 17th green at the Country Club in Boston."

In closing, Huggan writes: "The last thing the always-volatile Ryder Cup needs right now is a team captain who doesn't know how to control himself in stressful situations or, indeed, when to keep his big mouth shut.

"Come to think of it, maybe Lehman should play in the upcoming matches. At least then he'd be out of the way when the time comes to make the big decisions or say the right things to the watching world. Just a thought, Tom: Calm down, will you?"

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