ROME - After Keegan Bradley learned he wasn’t selected as a captain’s pick for the U.S. Ryder Cup team, he poured his heart out to Golf Channel’s Tom Lewis. “I’ve always been an outsider in the sport but I have tried to get closer to the guys I ...
ROME – After Keegan Bradley learned he wasn’t selected as a captain’s pick for the U.S. Ryder Cup team, he poured his heart out to Golf Channel’s Tom Lewis.
Bradley isn’t the only one who feels as if the U.S. Ryder Cup has become a little “too clubby,” a bit “too clickish,” too much of a “boys’ club.” Stewart Cink is the only new blood to this year’s back room for U.S. Captain Zach Johnson, but even he isn’t sure whether he would have been invited to be in the cool club if Phil Mickelson hadn’t been banished from the U.S. Ryder Cup’s inner circle for the things he said before leaving for LIV.
It goes back to the 2014 Ryder Cup when the U.S. side was blown out in Scotland, its sixth loss in seven playings of the biennial event, and Phil Mickelson publicly threw U.S. Captain Tom Watson under the bus during the post-match press conference. The result was the formation of a Task Force, which empowered the players and was designed to create continuity in the team leadership.
“In my case, there’s a lot of guys that were captains and assistant captains and it was kind of a cycle of the same – once that Ryder Cup Task Force started, it kind of became like the same guys, just it was a merry go round,” Cink rightly noted. Love thought he had his final go-round last fall as U.S. Presidents Cup captain, his third stint in that role overall, but he and Johnson are tight and so he agreed to do one more tour of duty.
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