Ryder Cup US Team Announces New Captain Structure

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Published: February 24, 2015

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Davis Love III was officially named the 2016 Team USA Ryder Cup captain on Tuesday. With the news came word of the adjustments Love and the U.S. task force are making to try to level the playing field with Europe.

Golf Central has the details of some of the tweaks being made, with Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and other officials forming a think tank of sorts to tackle the USA's Ryder Cup travails:







Love named Tom Lehman as an assistant captain, a potentially savvy move to provide a native Minnesotan perspective on the venue, Hazeltine National Golf Club:



Also featured in Tuesday's press conference was Mickelson's thoughts about the revamped USA approach:



Stephanie Wei weighed in on what she took away from the gathering of golf minds:



James Corrigan of The Daily Telegraph couldn't help but be a bit skeptical at the latest U.S. tactics:





But as that questionably authentic ancient Italian maxim goes, "He who is resistant to change is destined to perish."

The Americans have to do something to get out of their perpetual Ryder Cup funk, which abated only in 2008 amid an anomalous triumph at Valhalla with Paul Azinger as captain.

Likable, swagger-filled players such as the AWOL Anthony Kim, who made such a profound impact on that 2008 squad, are lacking on the U.S. side as of late. Reigning FedEx Cup champion Billy Horschel fits the bill, but he didn't make the 2014 Ryder Cup cut.

Todd Lewis of Golf Channel analyzed one of the fresh changes in that context:



Camaraderie, an absence of controversy and uncrushable confidence have allowed Team Europe to dominate. Save for the spell of 2008, it has held the Ryder Cup since 2002.

Love even alluded to how Europe appears to be in great shape with Darren Clarke at the helm in 2016, via Golf...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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