European captain Nick Faldo was caught on camera with an important looking piece of paper on Wednesday, but denied it was his plans for the Friday morning foursomes.

The paper had pairings written on it - Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood, then Padraig Harrington and Robert Karlsson.

Underneath were the initials of Justin Rose, Ian Poulter, Graeme McDowell and Paul Casey, then on the next line Oliver Wilson, Soren Hansen and Miguel Angel Jimenez. Henrik Stenson's name was missing.

However, when questioned if this gave an insight into his thinking for the opening foursomes, Faldo revealed it was actually slightly less important information.

"It just had the lunch list," he said. "It had sandwich requests for the guys, just making sure who wants the tuna, who wants the beef, who wants the ham.

"So that's all it was, sandwich list."

When pressed on the matter, though, Faldo came up with a different answer.

"I haven't put numbers next to them yet, have I? We don't know what order they will go out, so some are safe," he contended.

"And that was on the seventh tee. If the photographer was on the 13th or 14th it all changed, so it's all different now."

Then came a question about the missing Stenson.

Faldo said: "He's on the other side of the piece of paper. The Swedes do it the other way around.

"No, it's tomorrow's (Thursday) pairings. Okay, I've been caught - I learned a lesson. You know the pairings and we are going to play foursomes on the front nine."

The Ryder Cup starts with foursomes on Friday morning and both captains must hand in their line-ups at lunchtime on Thursday.