Milwaukee ? Jay Haas, who turned 50 in December, joined Stewart Cink as the two captain’s picks for a U.S. team Ryder Cup team that will try to regain the cup from Europe in the Sept. 17-19 matches at Oakland Hills.

“Now everyone knows the team,” captain Hal Sutton said. “And everyone knows the mission.”

Haas returns to the Ryder Cup for the first time since he lost the decisive singles match to Philip Walton that allowed Europe to win in 1995 at Oak Hill.

Raymond Floyd was 51 when he was picked as a wild-card in 1993 by captain Tom Watson.

Haas, who last won on the PGA Tour at the ’93 Texas Open, was 10th in the standings and in position to earn an automatic spot on the team until he closed with a 77 on Sunday at Whistling Straits and dropped two spots to No. 12.

“Hal had some small talk and said, ‘I’d sure love to have you on the team.’ I was kind of waiting for, ‘But you screwed up today,”‘ Haas said. “I’m pretty emotional about it. It’s something I pointed to for the last couple of years.”

Cink will play on the Ryder Cup team for the second straight time.

“I don’t remember ever being this flattered in my life,” Cink said.

The U.S. team features five rookies — Kenny Perry, Chad Campbell, Fred Funk, Chris Riley and Chris DiMarco — and only five of its dozen players have won this year.

The rest of the American team is Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Davis Love III, Jim Furyk and David Toms.