NEW YORK — Seven stories above the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, U.S. Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin rounded out his team on Tuesday by adding three picks with experience in delivering returns in the toughest climate.

His fourth selection takes on more risk.

Proven veterans Tiger Woods, the world's No. 1 player but winless this season in 11 starts, Zach Johnson and Stewart Cink were named to the team that faces Europe Oct. 1-3 at Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales. Pavin also selected 21-year-old Rickie Fowler, who has yet to win a professional tournament and hasn't had a top-10 since June, but nonetheless is the first PGA Tour rookie to be a captain's pick.

"I am very pleased to add these four to Team USA," Pavin said. "I'm very proud to have Team USA completely assembled now, and I'm looking forward to the matches in three weeks.

"The objective here is to have 12 players that make up Team USA that are going to go out there and have one goal in mind, and that's to try to win the Ryder Cup over in Wales."

The USA has not won on foreign soil since 1993. Pavin's picks join 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.

Fowler's selection was the one most questioned.

"I think obviously he's deserving," Pavin said. "There's a lot of guys deserving to be on the team, a lot of people in the mix. It just came down to feelings. I had a gut feeling about Rickie. He has a good Walker Cup record (7-1). He's a very good player. There's a lot of very good players that I had to look at, but that's the way I went.

"I think he's a very mature young man. He's had experience in international play, very solid player, and he's got a very steady head on his shoulders."

Fowler seemed unfazed by the situation.

"I can bring some youth to the team and hopefully get the guys pumped up a little bit," Fowler said by phone at the news conference. "But as I said, we are all going over there to win so we are all going to be getting each other pumped up and kind of focusing on our main goal."

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.

"Did I ever have any doubt (about Woods)? I didn't think about it very much. I was just waiting and watching," Pavin said. "As I've said before, I was hoping that he would qualify on points. He didn't, and then I just waited to see how he was going to play. I was glad to see he's playing better.

"Tiger is one of 12 guys on the team, and every one of them is just as important as another player."

Pavin called Woods on Monday night and asked if he'd like to be on the team.

"He said, 'Absolutely,' and said, 'Whatever you would like me to do, I will do, just tell me what you would like,' which is exactly what a captain likes to hear from any player on the team," Pavin said. "Obviously I was happy that he was very excited about playing, and he wants to be on a winning team, just like the other 11 guys, as well."

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.

Tiger Woods leads Pavin's picks for U.S. Ryder Cup team