Surprise Decision by Ryder Cup Task Force: Maybe All We Need Is Love

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Published: February 18, 2015

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The not-quite-official announcement of Davis Love III as the next US Ryder Cup captain was a little reminiscent of the Monty Python skit: "You never expect the Spanish Inquisition!!"  

We never expected Davis Love.

That is nothing against Love, who is one of the game's stand-up guys, one of the people who takes the time to sit on PGA Tour policy boards and make considered decisions about the future of the entire PGA Tour.

Love is well-liked among fans, among Tour players, at the PGA of America, among executives at the PGA Tour, among sponsors, even among members of the hard-to-please media. And maybe that's the reason he ended up with the job. However, it would have been a lot better if he hadn't been on the committee, from the standpoint of the optics of the situation.  

In the end, Love was the guy the committee could agree on as captain.  He is the guy everybody liked, the guy they trusted. However, it left questions about the two who were thought most likely, the two most often mentioned by several committee members: Paul Azinger and Fred Couples.

That means there were obviously doubts on the part of committee members or divergent views about Azinger or Couples, for whatever reasons. We will never know what was said behind closed doors.

We thought Mickelson dangled a couple breadcrumb clues at the Farmer's Insurance Open when he still endorsed both of them.

"When you look at the next captain, you got to have somebody that's strong enough with, confident enough in who they are, to withstand the scrutiny that's going to come their way," he said, joking with the reporters about where the criticism would originate, mainly in the media. "And you also have to have the ability to let your ego down and let a system that has worked in the past—that allows us to be more prepared, like the Zinger system in 2008—get a lot of the credit."

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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