What’s Missing from Team USA?
The Ryder Cup to me is the most fun, nerve-wracking, enjoyable thing for me to watch in sports. It is my favorite thing and it’s just been so frustrating. What do we need to change? >> I don’t know. I mean, I think it’s, you know, it’s it’s tough and I mean, I’ve lost sleep over this, you know, nights of just like what can we do? what what can and I think I think that’s some of the problem is is maybe there’s there’s quite often some maybe too often changes being made or like looking for I I just I feel like more than anything just more structure and just more you know I I think I think the European team it it’s it’s a it’s a finely tuned machine and it’s it’s a it’s all that they have. I think that, you know, the Europeans, they they have it every two years. They, you know, once this one’s done, they’re looking toward forward to the next one and they’re they’re planning that out, whereas like it’s not that the PGA isn’t. It’s they’re also the PG of America and they’re running a lot of other events and they have a lot of other things going and and we also have the President’s Cup, you know what I mean? It’s like there’s >> Yeah. there there’s a lot of things that go into it that I just think that you know whether I don’t know what it is if it’s behind the scenes if it’s whatever but just something that that is just maybe a little more like I said just concrete or organized in that standpoint but at the end of the day it’s I mean I I’ve I’ve watched it firsthand they they they play better than us all the Rder Cups that we’ve lost they they have just outplayed us and and I fully understand that people that hate the whole thing they just make more putts than us like you can’t just say that. I’m like, “No, >> yes, there there is entire there is way more to that. There is the fact that they did make more putts than us.” Like, that is a stone cold fact that I’m not sure how there’s nothing that anybody could do internally that could change that other than us. Just, you know, it could be us. Are we putting too much pressure on ourselves? Like, that’s obviously nothing that somebody in the PGA of America could fix. like I think there’s there’s a lot of a lot of factors and a lot of things that that maybe we’re just putting too much on ourselves and and we just have to find a way to you know play like we did on Sunday more often of just I think we you know it’s it’s probably a lot of overthinking probably a lot of overanalyzing you know just just dialing in trimming the fat if you will of just realizing what’s important putting focus on that maybe what isn’t important stop putting focus on that it’s kind of like you said right of of be who you are and and don’t, you know, if you’re not somebody, then don’t try to be that person. Like, just stick to what what we know and what we’re good at and do that and and maybe don’t try to over complicate it, which, you know, maybe we have a little bit.
Justin Thomas says he’s “lost sleep over the Ryder Cup,” and you can hear how much it weighs on him. He explains why Europe’s structure, long-term planning, and simplicity keep winning, while Team USA may be overthinking it. Sometimes the answer isn’t more change — it’s clarity. 🏌️♂️🇺🇸🏆
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