Americans need short memory in the Ryder Cup

“It all starts with the captain”, Mickelson told reporters at Hazeltine National, site of this year’s Ryder Cup.

Rookie Ryan Moore, added to the Ryder Cup squad as US captain Davis Love III’s last wild card pick after taking Rory McIlroy to a playoff at the Tour Championship on Sunday, said he was nervous during his first practice at Hazeltine.

CHASKA, Minnesota Twice major victor Zach Johnson has built a career record that most of his peers would envy but it gnaws at him that he has yet to taste Ryder Cup success after playing for the United States on four teams.

One key to winning the Ryder Cup?

“On the US team, a lot of their players have had multiple experiences of losing Ryder Cups”.

Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson will hit the first tee shots for Europe when they go up against Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed.

Format: Four matches of fourballs (better ball) and foursomes (alternate shot) on Friday and Saturday, 12 singles matches Sunday.

Europe is seeking an unprecedented fourth win in a row over the Americans in what would also be the seventh victory in eight outings. Mickelson has criticized nearly every captain he has ever had, which led to the infamous “task force” to examine Team USA.

“Danny is fine”, Europe captain Darren Clarke said. “He doesn’t actually like them as much as you would think”, said Colsaerts.

“So we’ll see how that goes”.

Masters champion Danny Willett came under scrutiny when his brother wrote a column for a British outlet bashing the American fans.

Furthermore, the hosts have enlisted a star-studded backroom team behind captain Davis Love III.

After months of anticipation, the 2016 Ryder Cup is finally here. A vocal heckler walked the walk after talking the talk during the practice round on Thursday. Meanwhile, Rory just won the Tour Championship, and though Sullivan has been more workmanlike than spectacular, he’s no worse than Fowler.

No problem: David Johnson reacts after sinking the putt. They square off against two European veterans in Rose and Stenson.

After wisecracking that the putter he was handed was too short, Johnson muttered, “home soil, right?”

Bernhard Langer had five rookies on his team in 2004, and two of them sat out the entire first day – Paul Casey and Ian Poulter.

Pete Willett, blogger, stirred the Ryder Cup Wednesday with his online comments. McIlroy tweeted while linking the video. Six of Darren Clarke’s team will make their Ryder Cup debuts this week and will hope to show they can lead the continent into a new era in Minnesota.

“Our most fired-up guy (Reed) is going to be in front of the most fired-up crowd maybe in the history of golf”, Love said.

He added: “Do you think I had anything to do with how poorly he played that way?” But he says he can still find his way around a board.

“These are the guys I’ve looked up to since I was young, looking for autographs when I’ve been to tournaments as a fan”, Fitzpatrick said. “I used an extreme example the way decisions can affect play and I never should have done that because it affected Hal”.

Stenson, who won his first major this year at Royal Troon with a 72-hole major record 264, could be matched up against Mickelson, who battled him throughout the final round last July.

Despite having one victory in the last seven matches, the United States are the favourites to reclaim team golf’s greatest prize. I wasn’t thinking. I was trying to convey the importance of the captain and so forth and use a specific example.

Sutton was bemused that Mickelson would bring that up now. “Both are very strong players. they were always going to be my choice for leading Europe off in this match”.

He said Sutton was with the USA team on Tuesday night and “it was an inspiration to see him”.