Why Tiger shouldn't have made the Ryder Cup team

I'm as big a fan of Tiger Woods as the next guy, but when I heard this week that Tiger Woods had made the Ryder Cup team as a Captains pick, I have to say, I was a more than a little surprised.
All sport's are "what have you done for me lately" professions: one bad outting by an NFL quarterback, and he is warming the bench in lue of his back up; a goaltender gives up 3 goals in a period, and he is yanked for his back up; a pitcher gives up 4 runs in the first, and out he goes. These may be all team sports, but those positions are fair comparisions to a golfer, who plays alone, and it should be no different in golf, or for Tiger Woods.
The Ryder Cup is golf's equivalent of the World Cup: Europe and the US pick teams of the greatest players of the last 2 years to play in an event that chooses the worlds greatest team of golfers. It is about pride and honor for where you are from, and 2 years worth of bragging rights to the winning team. It is also considered the most important, and unique, event in Golf-by both pro's and fans; as such, I think that only the best at the time, should play in it. 2 years ago, Tiger was still the best in the world, but in the last year he has been nothing more than an, dare I say, average PGA tour pro: he hasn't won a single event in over a year, he failed to even make the final tournament of the Fed Ex Cup-Golf's version of a playoff system, and really only showed up in one major-the Masters, where he finished in the top 5.
Further going against Woods this year, is his historical performance at the Ryder Cup of 10-13-2. Thats not exactly impressive for a player who otherwise dominates in match play of any kind and is struggling through the worst year of his career, and putting him on this years Ryder Cup team is detrimental, in my opinion, to the US repeating as champions of the event...
Tiger may still be the #1 player in the world, but not because of his play in the last year. All that that ranking shows right now is how dominant Woods was for all those years, and, like it or not, "was" doesn't cut it in the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately world of sports.