The four-time major victor is the only European Ryder Cup team member in the Tour Championship field and spent a good part of the first two days struggling to find his form.
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Having already selected Rickie Fowler, JB Holmes and Matt Kuchar as his first three captain’s picks, Moore’s addition – announced after the PGA Tour’s season-ending Tour Championship which Moore lost in a playoff to former world No.1 Rory McIlroy – rounds out the 12-man team.
Inevitably, next week’s Ryder Cup came up, and McIlroy was asked about the comments of US captain Davis Love III, who in a radio interview this week said the USA might have assembled the best team ever.
Either way, this is a ratio of experience that US fans can only hope will help pave the way for a much-needed home victory.
This time America captain Davis Love III is employing the services of statisticians at the Scouts Consulting Group which he said provides him with “way more sophisticated” analysis than that on which he relied in 2014.
“You can go with a very volatile stock that has a chance of going bigger or a chance of crashing miserably”. We know how to handle it, how to deal with it.
“We have a plan we’ve been working on for a year and a half … we know what happened in the past but we’re looking to the future now and building”. One thing [the sport psychologist] Bob Rotella told me: if you’re going to base your happiness on winning and losing, golf is not a good sport to be in because you’re going to lose a lot. “They’ve definitely had analytics help in the last couple of years”.
Equating Love’s bodacious claim with something that you’d hear in boxing, Miller was speaking from a massive sense of perspective. Sunday features 12 singles matches.
Europe have won the last three matches and six of the last seven, despite facing United States teams laden with players ranked among the highest in the world.
“I do believe the Euros have got, at least on paper, the worst team they’ve had in many years”. Full coverage of the Masters, Open Championship, US Open, US PGA Championship and the Ryder Cup.
“That is ultimately what it is about and then we spend a lot of time just getting the head in the right place to play”.
“Davis is doing everything he possibly can to get that 20-footer going in on his side”.
Even though the Americans have won only twice in the last 23 years, they will be seen as favorites again when the 41st Ryder Cup starts September 30 at Hazeltine National in Chaska, Minnesota.
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“We want to win so badly that when we have a bad session, or we lose the momentum, we panic a little bit and start playing not to lose rather than playing to win”, he said.
