2012 Ryder Cup: Let the Blame Game Begin

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Published: October 2, 2012

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Whenever an unfortunate event presents itself, our first instinct is always to channel all of the blame towards a single target.

It’s as if we have become so obsessed with obtaining “justice” that in some strange way we feel better about ourselves when we are able to place all of the blame on an individual or group of individuals.

The majority of the time we quickly and often blindly channel all of our blame towards the top.  

A financial meltdown must be blamed solely on the President of the United States.

A football team going 5-11 must be due to an incompetent head coach.  

And the U.S. meltdown at Medinah must fall solely on the shoulders of the team’s captain, Davis Love III.  

But those of us who are interested in evaluating situations rather than blindly throwing the blame towards the top and moving on know all too well that catastrophes are rarely the result of a single person or even a single event. They are most often the result of a series of unfortunate events caused by a number of people which ultimately leads to one catastrophic outcome.

So, if you’re attempting to throw all of the blame onto Love for America’s epic collapse at Medinah, well, the majority of your blame is headed in the wrong direction.

Of course hindsight is 20/20 and you can point to a few very minor gaffes Love may have made, most notably his decision to sit Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley during Saturday afternoon’s four-ball matches after the duo had already captured three points together in dominant fashion. But Mickelson also said that was more his decision than Love’s.



“Keegan and I knew going in that we were not playing in the afternoon, and we said on the first tee, we are going to put everything we have into this one match, because we are not playing the afternoon,” Mickelson said on...
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