This myth that Europe are great in the Ryder Cup and America are rubbish in the Ryder Cup is wrong. The reality is that both teams are great playing at home and both teams are poor on the road.

We've lost three of the last four away matches by an average of seven points. We just haven't gone away from home and lost, we've got beaten comprehensively in three of our last four outings, so we're doing things differently.

The first roll of the dice was to take back a captain who'd been there before. We felt it was a mistake going on the road with captains who haven't done it before and are trying to learn the job, as well as dealing with the difficult challenge of playing away.

The second was data showing us that rookies don't really perform away from home. It's very difficult to play your f

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