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During the event, reports emerged that there was
dissension in the U.S. team room.
Sources said the split
was led by Patrick Cantlay, who was allegedly not wearing
a hat to protest players not being paid to play in the Ryder
Cup. U.S. team members and captains vehemently denied
the report.
However, Lucas Glover, who wasn’t in Italy but was a
strong candidate for a U.S. captain’s pick after rattling off
back-to-back wins in August, gathered some intel about
Team USA’s rift and was heartbroken about what he
heard.
“It broke my heart the week after to hear about how
splintered the room was and things about money and
different things,” Glover told SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio
this week. “That’s not at all what the Ryder Cup stands for.
And I’m not just going on what I’ve read and been told, I’ve
talked to some people who were there in the fight, and it
breaks my heart to hear that because that’s not what it’s
about, that’s not what it stands for and it’s not why I want
to play on that team.”
Glover, the 2009 U.S. Open champion, has never played
in a Ryder Cup. But many thought the 43-year-old was
deserving of that honor this year after he alleviated his
decade-long putting yips and won the Wyndham
Championship and FedEx St. Jude Championship
consecutively.
When U.S. captain Zach Johnson announced his six wild-
card picks in late August, he said his respect and
admiration is “thick when it comes to Lucas and his
family.” Ultimately, Glover received a call from Johnson
before the selections were made, but the news on the
other end wasn’t what Glover wanted to hear.
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“I could tell by [Johnson’s] tone at first that I didn’t make it,”
Glover said, “and I didn’t want to put him through any more
than he was already going through calling guys, so I just
kept it short and told him I understood — even though I
was probably lying.”
Glover added
that making a Ryder Cup team is “the only
thing I haven’t done and I still want to.” Maybe if he was in
Italy, the end result — and chemistry amongst the U.S.
team — would have been different.
“It’s easy to say three weeks after, two weeks after, and
unfortunately they lost, but yeah I would have liked to have
been there,” Glover said. “I think I could have brought
some different things to the table.”
However, the goal for Glover now shifts to making the U.S.
squad in 2025 at Bethpage Black in New York — the site
of his U.S. Open triumph.
