1 important reason that elite players need the Ryder Cup

Farmingdale, NY – no matter what they have done as young, no matter what they did as pros, there is a strange thing that most Ryder cups feel during their first team event:

That they do not belong.

The more players you talk to, the more true it looks. Some bad Ryder cup The two-year vacation equation, the individual, her nature of their seasons, great passion and embarrassment-making the biggest players on the planet … a little cute in front of their peers.

“I think the first year for me was a lot of discovery,” Cam Young began, “just in terms of the only admission I go here with wise golf. And that I am meant to be here and that is what I want to do. You know, I am qualified to be in these teams.”

Young is a Ryder Cup novice but was talking about the President’s Cup, which he played all five games in 2022. Less than a year before he was in that team, he had been seeing PGA Tour as a fan, he said.

“You climb me 10, 11 months later in the team’s room, and I’m sitting there a slightly unpleasant kind of just because I don’t know someone really well,” Young said. “There are some guys in the team that I had known from Junior Golf but had a gap – six, seven, eight years – where I had not really seen them.”

Young was a 20 best player in the world, but “I was still getting my feet under me, and I think I was here for longer, I’m much more comfortable.”

He is not alone.

“I learned that I can compete at the high level of golf,” Bob Macintyre said Wednesday. This is the one for Bob, who repeated the thought a moment later. He changed all his devices after that Ryder cup, believing it could reach a new level. And surely, he has found it in the years since then, winning twice and becoming a better player in the world.

He feels different about the presence he holds in the golf world now. It all started in the Ryder Cup.

You can say the same Scottie Scheffler, World no. 1who was the 12th and last man in the 2021 US team. There is nothing offensive to this, Scottie knows it. He had not yet won a PGA Tour event but gained a mass approval by Steve Stricker and his teammates. Just receiving the call made it “very exciting,” he said. Then he defeated Jon Rahm 4 and 3 in a single match and has gained essentially everything else since.

Even Rahm himself was not fully sure that the role he could play during his first Cup Ryder.

“I was high in the world rankings, yes, and I had played excellent golf,” Rahm said. “But the second I went into that locker room, it was a lot, very, very visible to me that I was below when it came to Ryder Cup, just because of how comfortable some players were and how different is the dynamics of the week.

“Did I belong? Yes. But the presence – nowadays, they will say the aura of some players – the second you walked in the closet room in Paris, Sergio (Garcia) and (Ian) Poulter were very large. Just that their presence was visible immediately.”

Rahm called it intimidating and humble. But similar to Scheffler, a few days after he found himself in an important singular match … against Tiger Woods.

If he did not belong yet, he did a few hours later when he won 2 and 1.

“The pride I feel now,” Rahm said that day. “It’S’S’S unspeakable.”