Davis Love III still has a few days before he announces his six captain’s picks to the 2022 U.S. Presidents Cup team, but he has already made one decision: he’s going to take a page out of the Steve Stricker Ryder Cup playbook and organize a team-bonding reconnaissance mission to Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte ahead of the Presidents Cup, which begins September 22.
“It’s hard to pin 12 PGA Tour pros down, but we’re going to try to play a practice round or two before,” Love said. “We want to get Cam Young and Billy Horschel – the guys who haven’t played a Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup – to see it. I think that really helped us at Whistling Straits (last year’s Ryder Cup site). You get over the grandeur of it. Jack Nicklaus gave us a great speech before the 2016 Ryder Cup. He said he’d go to the Masters and play three or four rounds the week before and keep score and then go home and relax and when he’d come back on Monday he was ready to go. I think that philosophy helps guys get over the shock of it rather than walking out there Monday afternoon and it’s wham.”
