Never has a captain (except maybe Mark James in '99) taken so much abuse for a Ryder Cup loss. From what I SAW on TV, Faldo was nothing but positive about the week and seemed to try extra hard to bring his players into the decision-making process. The matches were very close and an extraordinary effort by the Americans and the crowd and a few putts were the difference.
But I couldn't have put my thoughts to "paper" any better than this article on Faldo:
http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,1843575,00.html
I still feel that the captaincy is very overrated. Sure, Azinger showed that a captain can make more difference than usual in some things: picks, attitude, interacting with the fans -- but the players still have to execute. For this Ryder Cup, the Americans executed better than the Europeans.
2010 in Wales should be fun!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment