Chin Diesel
Power of Love
- Joined
- Aug 24, 2011
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And now it's on to 2025 and Bethpage.
There are always lessons to be learned moving forward and failures which can be discarded.
Americans can set up the course however they like. The Captain's picks need to reflect the course being played. This was on of Johnson's biggest failures. He used his captain's picks and used them on some of the worst drivers of the ball off the tee. He did so knowing the course would penalize poor tee shots and that is a killer in Foursomes. This is where someone like Lucas Glover would have paid dividends. Just get the ball in play off the tee.
Same for picking partners. Please, for the love all good and holy, kill the bro club stuff. If Scheffler is truly the #1 player in the world he should be able to play with someone other than Sam Burns. They have plenty of time to play fun rounds together on their time. Same for Spieth and Thomas. I have no problem having them go out on Friday, but if they're sputtering, no need to put them back out Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.
It was good to see Homa play well and play with passion. He's a helluva player but has struggled mightily in majors. Seeing him play well in a high visibility, high pressure environment is good going forward. Harman played well too and lived up to his reputation of being a persistent pesk that doesn't go away. He may only have one more appearance left in him, so it's less critical how he played.
Cantlay is a turd and curmudgeon, but he plays well enough and he's going to be around.
Koepka killed any good will with his comments about Rahm. Just play your damn game. If he doesn't play again, I'm fine with it. I was perfectly fine with him playing this year, but he didn't earn any good willing going forward.
Fowler reverted to his previous six years and seemed to lose all the momentum he had during 2023.
If another captain ever tries to tell a player/caddy what club to hit off a tee, I'm okay if the player punches the captain. That will go down as one of Zach's most public and obvious gaffs.
JT's biggest accomplishment was not looking out of place in the US lineup. I'm not sure if that's a compliment.
Spieth, Schauffele and Morikawa were duds.
Clark is intriguing. He held his own, 1-1-1, and he is somewhere in his prime, so we can expect more of him, but ideally he's bench strength and not top of lineup strength.
Hopefully there are a couple of young up and comers in the US ranks who can get ready by 2027 when they go to Ireland. Adare Manor is a biggish resort course away from the coastline of Ireland.
There are always lessons to be learned moving forward and failures which can be discarded.
Americans can set up the course however they like. The Captain's picks need to reflect the course being played. This was on of Johnson's biggest failures. He used his captain's picks and used them on some of the worst drivers of the ball off the tee. He did so knowing the course would penalize poor tee shots and that is a killer in Foursomes. This is where someone like Lucas Glover would have paid dividends. Just get the ball in play off the tee.
Same for picking partners. Please, for the love all good and holy, kill the bro club stuff. If Scheffler is truly the #1 player in the world he should be able to play with someone other than Sam Burns. They have plenty of time to play fun rounds together on their time. Same for Spieth and Thomas. I have no problem having them go out on Friday, but if they're sputtering, no need to put them back out Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.
It was good to see Homa play well and play with passion. He's a helluva player but has struggled mightily in majors. Seeing him play well in a high visibility, high pressure environment is good going forward. Harman played well too and lived up to his reputation of being a persistent pesk that doesn't go away. He may only have one more appearance left in him, so it's less critical how he played.
Cantlay is a turd and curmudgeon, but he plays well enough and he's going to be around.
Koepka killed any good will with his comments about Rahm. Just play your damn game. If he doesn't play again, I'm fine with it. I was perfectly fine with him playing this year, but he didn't earn any good willing going forward.
Fowler reverted to his previous six years and seemed to lose all the momentum he had during 2023.
If another captain ever tries to tell a player/caddy what club to hit off a tee, I'm okay if the player punches the captain. That will go down as one of Zach's most public and obvious gaffs.
JT's biggest accomplishment was not looking out of place in the US lineup. I'm not sure if that's a compliment.
Spieth, Schauffele and Morikawa were duds.
Clark is intriguing. He held his own, 1-1-1, and he is somewhere in his prime, so we can expect more of him, but ideally he's bench strength and not top of lineup strength.
Hopefully there are a couple of young up and comers in the US ranks who can get ready by 2027 when they go to Ireland. Adare Manor is a biggish resort course away from the coastline of Ireland.
