Ernest T. Vol
It's me...Ernest T.
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I think spieth cared .. whether about individual performance or for the cup who knows. Finau post round interview today was awesome tooI said it earlier....but I would love to hear (never going to happen) an honest answer to the question of how much each US player really cares if they win or not.
I don't know how many rounds the Euros have played on this course versus the Americans, but I assume it's more. Both Euros and Americans play on courses in the US, and Americans don't really play on their courses.Disagree with lots of the above. I don't think very many of the Euros are playing this course regularly, and there's no question the drive to win the Ryder Cup the Americans have. It's blatantly evident by just watching.
You can still have an inferiority complex and not actually be inferior to anyone. I think the Europeans feel like underdogs going into each of these Ryder Cups even though they actually aren't especially the ones held in Europe.Maybe in the past. Not today. World wide travel and Tournaments with the best players in the world all together as it is now, the Euros and players from anywhere don't feel inferior to anyone.
See your point......Not as much $ on their tours, players aren't coddled like they are over here, and courses as a whole aren't as "perfect" as they are here. I see that. Good point.You can still have an inferiority complex and not actually be inferior to anyone. I think the Europeans feel like underdogs going into each of these Ryder Cups even though they actually aren't especially the ones held in Europe.
Athletes do this all the time. People who have coached and played with Aaron Rodgers say he appears to be driven every single day by a desire to prove that he shouldn't have slipped in the draft and should have been more highly recruited out of high school. They say he wants to prove people wrong and that those things still bother him. To say the least, he's proven people wrong, but he still tries to. That's a form of an inferiority complex, IMO. Similar things have been said about Brady.
Oh I totally agree with you - they are not inferior, especially when playing in Europe. I do think that more often than not the US team looks better on paper, but that very well could be because I am more familiar with the US players and they are more recognizable to me. The Euros are recognizable too, but you just don't hear about them as much in the US.See your point......Not as much $ on their tours, players aren't coddled like they are over here, and courses as a whole aren't as "perfect" as they are here. I see that. Good point.
They "play" that role well, But, I don't think they believe they are inferior.