Buick Open winner Perry taking regular-guy route

01/07/2008 00:17. “Greg Johnson | The Grand Rapids Press AP PhotoTwo-time Buick Open champion Kenny Perry has his eyes set on making the US Ryder Cup team.” // MLive.com

30/06/2008 23:04. GRAND BLANC -- Kenny Perry, by all accounts a nice man and the happy winner of his second Buick Open title, isn't defiant by nature or design.

Perry, a deacon in the Franklin, Ky., Church of Christ, just doesn't treat golf's major championships as the holy grail or the means to measure a career. He isn't concerned that he is 18 major championship wins behind Jack Nicklaus, or 14 behind Tiger Woods.

He's taking the regular-event, regular-guy route, in this case the Buick Open route, building up points with top finishes on the PGA Tour with one goal in mind -- to make the U.S. Ryder Cup team.

He started the year wanting to wear the U.S. colors in his home state of Kentucky in the worst way. The Ryder Cup is at Valhalla near Louisville this fall, and Perry said it would be icing on... // The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com