European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie has been given a third wild card for next year's match at Celtic Manor in Wales.
The United States won back the trophy last September after Paul Azinger sought and was granted a further two captain's picks, making four in all.
Montgomerie pushed for an increase on Europe's two when the players' committee met at the County Louth club in Baltray, where The 3 Irish Open begins on Thursday.
The decision to grant him just one extra one, though, shows the importance still placed on trying to get the circuit's stars to play in as many Tour events as possible.
Paul Casey and Ian Poulter were both selected by Nick Faldo last year after deciding to stay in America for the final stretch of the qualifying race.
Poulter in particular was criticised because, with one counting event to go, he could have still qualified automatically, but he stayed away from the Johnnie Walker Championship in Scotland.
Faldo then left out Darren Clarke despite the 2006 cup hero winning two tournaments.
Under the new system five players will still be selected from the European money list and four rather than five from the world ranking points gained in the 12-month qualifying period starting this September.
Montgomerie is expected to give a press conference on Wednesday when the subject will be discussed, but he said a few weeks ago: "Options are good and I would like a little more options than we have right now.
"The 10-2 situation (10 automatic qualifiers and two wild cards) had worked because we were winning, but now we have lost do we go 9-3 or 8-4 like the Americans?"
He once commented that he would be in favour of picking the whole team like a soccer manager, but as a member of the players' committee himself it is thought he was prepared to accept an increase of just one.
"I am one vote, but a more powerful one than I was being the captain," he said. "I will put the case forward."
Committee chairman Thomas Bjorn told PA Sport ahead of the meeting: "We will listen to the captain and the arguments for it, but we are very much a committee that believes that just because we lose one match we don't need to panic.
"It's one of these things that some captains will prefer not to pick anybody and some would like to pick the whole team.
"Monty's certainly not scared of wanting to do what he thinks is right. We will discuss it hard and the fortunate thing is that we have a lot of ex-Ryder Cup players on the committee.
"Monty will want something and if he gets it he will be happy, but if he doesn't he will accept it - I know that for a fact."
If the new system had been in operation last year England's Oliver Wilson would not have qualified.
Montgomerie will be the first European captain to have three wild cards since Bernard Gallacher in 1993.
Gallacher accepted a reduction to two for the following match and with Europe winning that in America his successors Seve Ballesteros, Mark James, Sam Torrance, Bernhard Langer, Ian Woosnam and Faldo all operated with just two.
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