As you may have heard, the U.S. kind of stunk in this year\u2019s Ryder Cup, the biannual competition between the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re not into golf, it might not really register, but in the golf world, it\u2019s a very big deal, and the American side is frustrated because the U.S. hasn\u2019t won since 2021.<\/p>\n
Phil Mickelson, aka Lefty, has an interesting proposal to solve the losing:<\/p>\n
\u201dHere is why looking outside of golf to a Coach K or Lou Holtz is worth exploring. Golf is an individual sport that doesn\u2019t have team work, support system, partnership, team analytics, personality traits, and more. The Europeans have a template that teaches and prepares their captains for these skills.<\/p>\n
\u201cU.S. has a new template every two years with little continuity. If a Coach K or Lou Holtz or someone similar took over, would it be built upon or would it be scrapped and start over again afterwards? If that\u2019s the case, it would be a waste of time and effort and not worth doing to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a fascinating idea, but he points to the main problem, at least for Krzyzewski and Holtz: Coach K is now 78 and Holtz, a passionate golfer, is a decade older at 88.<\/p>\n
We have no doubt that Krzyzewski would approach it as he would any competition: logically, systematically and intensely focused on winning, all while reprogramming the competitors.<\/p>\n
Realistically though, he has plenty of commitments and we can\u2019t imagine him taking on another sport at nearly 80.<\/p>\n
We like the idea though. Perhaps there is a figure from another sport who might be able to do it, like, say Nick Saban or Geno Auriemma, someone who has mastered psychology and how to approach winning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As you may have heard, the U.S. kind of stunk in this year\u2019s Ryder Cup, the biannual competition…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":297647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,2575,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-297646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-main","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115362023002156838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}