replaced his twin brother Nicolai<\/a> in the only change to Europe’s team, also has to wait.<\/p>\n“It’s two years ago, Rome, players evolve, players change, their profiles change and you’re looking at personality match-ups,” said Donald.<\/p>\n
“We have so many options that it’s really quite fun as a captain. <\/p>\n
“But we know the US are going to be strong. They’re strong in foursomes. They have some amazing partnerships there and we wanted to bring our best as well and this is what we feel is our best.”<\/p>\n
Both Donald and Bradley know success in the foursomes format has been a reliable indicator of overall outcomes in recent Ryder Cups.<\/p>\n
At Whistling Straits four years ago the US took the opening foursomes 3-1 en route to a record 19-9 victory. In 2016 they won the Friday foursomes session 4-0 at Hazeltine and Europe never truly recovered.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been preparing for 21 months for this,” added Donald.<\/p>\n
“We understand the task in hand, we understand how difficult it is to win away, but we have done it – we’ve won four times since 1987 to the US’ one win away.<\/p>\n
“So it has been done, and we will certainly draw on those experiences.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Continuity has been the key for the European team as they look to buck the trend of dominant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-169998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}