In the Ryder Cup, home team advantage doesn’t just mean the crowd is in your side. It means setting up the course so it plays in your favor—and punishes your opponents. Is this an unfair form of gamesmanship? Or simply smart strategy? In this episode of The Game Plan, Golf Digest’s Luke Kerr-Dineen breaks it down, and looks ahead to the 2023 Ryder Cup at Marco Simone
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20 Comments
First comment here, just saying 🙂
Would love to see a random player draw done before each match for the pairings, throw all the names in a hat,
Players should not have influence on how the course is set up.
I think it’s really cool
Fair game in my books. Coaches can pick players with outlier stats to combat these strategies. Players like Bryson…
Quick delete this video before the Yanks see it 😅
Because they cant beat the Americans straight out.
USA: "2025 Bethpage Black"
EU: "Ouch! Rory is the only one qualified."
Too bad the heart of the winning euros ain’t there anymore
The Indian’s have been doing this to their cricket pitches for ages!
I don’t think minor course setup can really make or break the cup. Course architecture could but they’re not rebuilding an entire course. End of the day these guys are crazy good playing anywhere and any elite golfer will tell you it comes down to sinking putts
what?!? people being people?!? say it is NOT so!!! 🙁
In every Teamsport you focus on your strengthes and the opponents weaknesses in every way the rule book gives you that freedom. Why should it be different in Golf?
It is not like the Americans have to play a different course.
Higher roughs and narrow the fairways
If only they’d done this for WWII they wouldn’t have needed us.
This is fascinating. I had no idea this was allowed.
This is why it’s a big deal to win on foreign soil.
Tigod: "pick my pals or else I'll crash into your family high on pills"
ZJ: "yes master"
The way US teams have played internationally in any sport lately doesn’t make me feel great 🤣
Changing a course during the event would be cheating in my book.