said on Trey Wingo\u2019s \u201cStraight Facts Homie!\u201d podcast<\/a>. \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure what format I would start in. I talked to [U.S. captain] Keegan [Bradley] a few weeks prior, and he was adamant about having a pretty veteran-heavy lineup going out in the first match, which was foursomes.\u201d<\/p>\nThere was speculation that the reason for Spaun\u2019s benching was equipment-based (he was the only Team USA member who plays a Srixon ball), but apparently that wasn’t the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, it had nothing to do with how I was playing, had nothing to do with what equipment I played,\u201d Spaun said. \u201cHe wanted to put guys out there first that have been in that arena, and have had success, and have the experience versus getting my feet wet in [fourball], which is probably an easier format, I think, was appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spaun played well in his fourball matches, including winning on Saturday. However, the U.S. ended up getting romped 3\u20131 in both foursome sessions, and Bradley curiously didn\u2019t try and shake the lineups up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what the thought process was for Saturday\u2019s matches,\u201d Spaun said, \u201cbut I think Keegan didn\u2019t want to freak out and start changing things around, just assuming, put the batting lineup out there, and eventually get things turned around. I thought there would be a little bit of a change, whether it was someone else\u2014I think Cam [Young] was the only one who subbed in for the foursomes on Saturday that was different, maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Spaun doesn\u2019t attribute that decision to Team USA\u2019s loss. <\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, though, the European team were playing so good,\u201d the 35-year-old said. \u201cThey were putting amazing. They were shooting 8 under par on alternate shot, which, that\u2019s just so hard to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many watching the first two days of the Ryder Cup were scratching their heads.\u00a0 Why? Because J.J. Spaun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-257131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}