The USA threw away their home-course benefit.
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That’s what Paul Azinger believes after the previous Ryder Cup captain trashed Bethpage Black, which is able to host the bi-annual occasion this week, in an interview on Trey Wingo’s “Straight Details Homie!” podcast.
Azinger stated it can add an additional problem for American captain Keegan Bradley.
“I really feel like Keegan’s going to should get these guys on a mission and on a mission shortly and single-minded to determine the right way to fall in love with Bethpage Black,” Azinger stated.
“I assure you they don’t like it both. Me and also you don’t like it. They don’t like it. Europe doesn’t care what the course is. Our guys may.”
Azinger’s problem appears to be rooted in his private distaste plus his perception that the gamers should not overly aware of the famed Lengthy Island public course.
Bethpage has hosted three main championships this century — the U.S. Open in 2002 and 2009 and the PGA Championship in 2019.
“Nope, in no way. We don’t know the course,” Azinger stated in feedback transcribed by Golf.com.
“I feel one of many largest errors that the American Ryder Cup workforce at all times appears to make, or the PGA of America, is that they go to programs that we’re not aware of.”
Half of the U.S. Ryder Cup workforce did play within the 2019 PGA Championship with Patrick Cantlay ending in third, Xander Schauffele sixteenth, Justin Thomas twenty third, Sam Burns twenty ninth, J.J. Spaun 54th and Bryson DeChambeau lacking the minimize.
Brooks Koepka, who received in 2019, has largely struggled this season on LIV Golf and within the majors he’s participated in. Koepka was not up for consideration for certainly one of Bradley’s captain selections.
Bradley, who selected to not be a enjoying captain regardless of a powerful season, performed the course typically as he starred for St. John’s golf workforce.
Cameron Younger, a Westchester native, has additionally spoken fondly of the course.
The outspoken Azinger was the captain of the 2008 Ryder Cup workforce that dominated the Europeans 16 1/2-11 1/2 at Valhalla in Louisville.
Azinger missed the minimize on the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage.
“I’m used to enjoying pretty flat programs in my lifetime,” Azinger informed The Submit’s Steve Serby. “Numerous downhill tee pictures, awkward angles after which uphill second pictures. On the (2002) U.S. Open setting, the rain that week was substantial and it actually neutralised us the primary day. I didn’t get pleasure from it, I assumed it was actually too exhausting, and Tiger [Woods] ended up profitable it that yr.
“But it surely’s the identical for all of the gamers. Does it give both workforce a bonus? I don’t know. I feel it’s a golf course the place you must be a reasonably highly effective participant, and I really feel like each groups are bringing some actual sturdy gamers in there. Have a look at Europe, when you take a look at that workforce, they’re bodily only a highly effective workforce, they’re gonna launch it.”
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