Ryder Cup: Stephen Gallacher says he needs more time in gym ahead of attempting to qualify for 2016

Stephen Gallacher says he will need to spend more time in the gym ahead of attempting to qualify for the 2016 Ryder Cup in the United States.

Ahead of this week's Alfred Duhill Links Championship the Scot, who lost both of his matches at Gleneagles in Europe's comfortable victory last week, revealed he was as determined as ever to make the visiting team at Hazeltine.

"I don't know how you can replicate the level of intensity or excitement," said Gallacher, who lives just 35 miles from the Perthshire course.

"Especially standing on the first tee playing against Phil Mickelson on Sunday was something that will live with me forever.

"I think the Ryder Cup is one of these things; you just cannot wait to get back in to play it again. I think going forward it's going to help my game as well. I learned so much from it that I can take on board."

Gallacher, a wildcard pick by captain Paul McGinley, will be joined on the Scottish links by his skipper, as well as Ryder Cup team-mates and world No 1 Rory McIlroy, US Open champion and 2010 winner Martin Kaymer and France's Victor Dubuisson.

The Ryder Cup rookie, who won the links event in 2004, added: "We are already putting plans in place to try to qualify for the next one. There's a few mistakes I made this year so I'm going to try to peak at better times.

"By the time I got to Firestone and the US PGA, I was absolutely running on empty."

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