re: Solutions for Team USA heading to Adare Manor?

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Good luck telling your wife she's not invited to this place

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I hear ya, but that's what it's going to take to win.
They can stay down the road somewhere if need be.

Alternate shot, or foursomes, is a format almost never played by Americans in any setting whether it’s casual, competitive events, country club settings, etc. the pros play it maybe once a year at the Zurich…for those that play. And there’s 8 points per Ryder cup dedicated to it and you technically only need 8 golfers to play it as they are on separate days. The Europeans have a much much more sophisticated data driven approach well in advance of picking teams for both the foursomes and fourballs. So they pick players based on the data, pair them based on the data, and then they prepare like crazy. I’ve heard their players on average played the course 8 times in the weeks leading up to the event, and then also had games focused on making them perform better…stuff like 3 hole matches where the pressure is on the early holes to get a lead or not fall behind. They can then switch partners a lot and get a feel for each other. It all sounds so smart and not very difficult to accomplish. I’ve heard Brandt snedeker, the next presidents cup captain, is very data driven and so we will see his approach and if we can learn from it.

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Looks like a course where local knowledge is paramoun

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It’s a Robert Trent Jones course that wasn’t designed until 1995 and redesigned by Fazio. So Americans should be extremely familiar to the layout, honestly maybe moreso than the euros