NEW YORK — Tiger Woods is going to Wales.

Woods, the world's No. 1 player but winless this season in 11 starts, was one of Corey Pavin's four captain's picks to round out the U.S. Ryder Cup team that faces Europe Oct. 1-3 at Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales. In making the announcement Tuesday at the New York Stock Exchange, Pavin, who was with his assistant captains in a New York hotel on Monday to finalize his decisions, also added Zach Johnson, Stewart Cink and Rickie Fowler to the team.

Woods, a 14-time major champion and winner of 71 titles on the PGA Tour, will play in the Ryder Cup for the first time since 2006. Woods, 10-13-2 in five appearances in the Ryder Cup, missed the 2008 contest at Valhalla in Kentucky because of reconstructive knee surgery. Without Woods, the USA, which had lost five of the previous six contests, defeated Europe, 16 1/2-11 1/2.

Woods is a captain's pick for the first time. Although he has only two top-10s this season — ties for fourth in the Masters and U.S. Open — he is playing his best golf of late following a self-imposed break from the game to deal with the ramifications of his infidelity that led to his divorce.

In his last eight rounds, Woods has posted five in the 60s. In the Deutsche Bank Championship that concluded Monday, Woods had three rounds in the 60s for the first time this year. He closed with a 69 to tie for 11th.

Johnson is the only one of the four picks to have won this season, capturing the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. He also tied for third at the PGA Championship. Johnson has played in one Ryder Cup, going 1-2-1 in the USA's lopsided loss in 2006.

Cink has four top-20s in his last four events. The 2009 British Open winner has played in the last four matches against Europe, posting a 4-7-4 record.

Fowler will make his Ryder Cup debut. He hasn't posted a top-10 since finishing second in the Memorial in June. But he was undefeated in leading the USA to victory last year in the Walker Cup.

Pavin's four picks join the eight players who earned automatic berths at the end of the PGA Championship: Masters winner Phil Mickelson, Hunter Mahan, Jim Furyk, Steve Stricker, Jeff Overton, Bubba Watson, Dustin Johnson and Matt Kuchar.

Four players — Overton, Watson, Johnson and Kuchar — will be playing in their first Ryder Cup.

The USA has not won on foreign soil since 1993.

The European team was finalized last week when captain Colin Montgomerie added Padraig Harrington, Edoardo Molinari and Luke Donald as his three captain's picks. They join Lee Westwood, Rory McIlroy, Ian Poulter, U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell, PGA Championship winner Martin Kaymer, Ross Fisher, Peter Hanson, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Francesco Molinari. The Euros have six rookies: the Molinari brothers, McIlroy, Kaymer, Fisher and Hansen.