The Americans had been beaten up in the Friday foursomes, and the Friday fourballs, and then again in the Saturday foursomes. By midday, they were in desperate straits. So Keegan Bradley threw his Hail Mary: Bryson DeChambeau and Scottie Scheffler, two alphas of the modern game, paired together in the Saturday fourballs.
Bradley is not a numbers guy and in that respect he is different to Luke Donald, whose every decision is put through the statistical analysis of his data guru Edoardo Molinari. Bradley prefers gut feel which can be the only reason why he paired Harris English, a Ryder cup rookie, with Collin Morikawa, who has long since abandoned his major-winning form of yesteryear. Harris and Morikawa were ranked the 132nd most effective pairing out of 132 combinations by Data Golf.
