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Tiger Woods. Image Credit: AP

Jeju: Justin Thomas said a fit Tiger Woods should be on the US Presidents Cup team “100 times out of 100” as the debate about who should get a wildcard heats up.

The PGA Tour has decamped to Asia for this week’s CJ Cup in South Korea and next week’s Zozo Championship in Japan, where Masters champion Woods will make his comeback from arthroscopic knee surgery.

A week later after the WGC-HSBC in Shanghai, Woods will announce his four captain’s picks to face Ernie Els’s International team at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in December.

The consensus is that if Woods is fit, then he should make himself the first playing captain since Hale Irwin at the inaugural Presidents Cup in 1994.

“I think if he’s healthy and playing well, I mean, I’ll take him, you know, 100 times out of 100,” world No. 5 Thomas said. “I think he knows his body and knows himself well enough to make that decision.”