VIRGINIA WATER, England (PA) -- Miguel Angel Jimenez has promised captain Nick Faldo he will give him "120 percent" if he is part of Europe's bid for a fourth successive Ryder Cup victory in September.

The 44-year-old Spaniard is nearly $1.2 million richer after capturing the BMW PGA Championship on Sunday, a victory that swept him to the top of the European Tour Order of Merit and up to third in the European Ryder Cup standings.

"I'm very calm, very experienced. I think Nick Faldo will be very pleased. I told him the other day, 'I hope I can be in your team,' and he said, 'I hope so too'," Jimenez said. "I am a player who can fit with anyone and one thing is guaranteed -- I am going to give it 120 percent."

Eleven years ago, Seve Ballesteros had Jimenez as his assistant at Valderrama. It looked then as though it might be his only involvement in the Ryder Cup, but in 1999 he made his debut in Boston and he played again in Detroit in 2004.

CONSOLATION FOR WILSON: Oliver Wilson reflected on yet another near miss at the BMW PGA Championship, and then discovered he had at least won something -- a place in next month's U.S. Open.

The 27-year-old from England recorded his seventh runner-up finish on the European Tour Sunday when he lost to Jimenez on the second hole of a playoff. There was a difference of almost $400,000 between coming in first and second, but a check for nearly $800,000 was still enough to take Wilson from 11th to second on the European Tour money list and into the field for Torrey Pines.

"It hurts a little bit. I had that chance" to win, he said. "I played great all week and I gave myself a chance, so I'm a little disappointed. But it won't be long. I wanted to compete in this tournament, which is the biggest one we play in apart from the majors, and that's sort of the next progression."

Wilson also has earned himself a spot in the British Open in July by climbing into the world's top 50.

DOUGHERTY ANGERED BY ALLISS: Nick Dougherty has criticized TV commentator Peter Alliss for his remarks about the standard of play during the BMW PGA Championship.

Dougherty, 25, who as one of the early starters in the third round, found himself watching the BBC's coverage as the leaders battled with a swirling wind and bumpy greens at Wentworth.

"I thought it was very sad. In fact, I thought it was disgusting," said Dougherty of Alliss' criticism. "He was talking about us being bad putters. I don't know whether it's because he has been out of the game for so long, but I didn't think it was right and he ought to show us more respect.

"I wish we could take him out there and show him how difficult it was," he added. "In Match Play week (October) the greens are stunning, but the seeding at this time of year makes the putts wobble about."

During Sunday's broadcast Alliss, a former Ryder Cup player who in the 1953 match at Wentworth lost a vital singles, said: "We would be doing our viewers a disservice if we didn't attempt to tell them how it is.

"I have great admiration for those who can play and those who can adapt," he added. "I realize how difficult it is, perhaps more than most. I have played on courses like this and you have to change tack."

Meanwhile, European Tour Chief Executive George O'Grady and Wentworth Managing Director Julian Small said that talks will take place about the club's greens.

"We have never stood back from investing on the course," said Small. "You've always got to look at how you move forward. We don't stand still -- everything about us is about moving forward."

"I've had a couple other greenkeepers here this week who reckon the conditions were particularly difficult when it became very warm after some moisture and the different grasses grew at different speeds," said O'Grady. "I think what we're facing here is something that we all put our best efforts into for a year and really attack this problem. Certainly I don't see we need to consider moving for next year."

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