Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup captain's schedules are very alike, Davis Love III says it's no coincidence
Jim Furyk, Davis Love III, Fred Couples, and Steve Stricker were assistants to Jay Haas in 2015 President Cup Captain, when the Americans won by one point in Korea. Since that year, Love, Stricker and Furyk have captained the next three US Ryder Cup teams the other two being vice-captains while Capos was Stricker's vice-captain on Whistling Straits One of the captains. Ryder Cup fans can buy Ryder Cup 2023 Tickets from our website.
Davis Love III has captained the next three US Ryder Cup teams the other two being vice-captains |
“Starting with Raymond
Floyd,” he described, taking us to the Ryder Cup task force's first winter
meeting after the Gleneagles disaster in 2014. “All the way down to Rickie
Fowler, It was a huge group, of young people, we had Tiger, Stricker, Tom
Lehman, Phil, just on the list. We all sat there and said, 'We need to do
something else."
Technically it was a Ryder
Cup conference, but they started looking at things differently. Not the Ryder
Cup or the Presidents Cup, it's just Team America, and Team America goes from
game to game, maybe with different players, but with the same philosophy and in
many cases the same leadership.
“One of the things Phil
really pushes for is consistency and continuity from year to year,” Love said.
"We can use an assistant captain for the President Cup, give him Ryder Cup
experience and let him get the President Cup captain experience. We do that all
year round."
Love thought Tiger should do it again, but Woods called him |
Love pointed to Johnson as a prime example of the new system. In fact, he said it was "embarrassing" to choose who presided over which game and Johnson was initially seeded in Charlotte to captain this year's Presidents Cup. That changed when a spot "opened up" in Italy - likely Woods' crash disqualified him as successor.
Johnson was the obvious
choice for the Ryder Cup, while Love moved to the Charlotte Presidents Cup.
(During discussing the move, Love pointed out that Woods had actually given him
the job. Love thought Tiger should do it again, but Woods called him and said,
"Well, you're from Charlotte.) Captain, this is the right thing to do
right now.")
This new system has
advantages for captains themselves, in particular, that they are well prepared
before being promoted to the top position. But there are also some smaller
system benefits that are less obvious.
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