Luke Donald, on LIV Golf: “The Ryder Cup is pure sport, above all else”

“The Ryder Cup “It’s pure, pure sport, and it always comes first,” English said. Luke Donaldwho replaced Henrik Stenson as European captain after the Swede joined LIV Golfthe controversial and millionaire Super League Arab who has taken the golf world by storm in the past two years.

In sports, Donald on Tuesday highlighted the strength of his players in ‘foursome’ and ‘fourballs’, the first two modalities played.

“It’s just a deep analysis of the team’s statistics. Within our team, we feel like we have some very strong foursome pairings, potential pairings. We feel like we’re a little bit stronger statistically in foursomes. alternating shots with the same ball) and ‘fourballs’ (four players play one ball each on the same hole and the best result of each team scores)”, declared Marco Simone on the course where the tournament will be held.

“In Ryder Cups you want to start fast. You want to lead fast. We decided between the vice-captains that the best way to do it was to open with a foursome, and it’s as simple as that, really,” he revealed.

Donald insisted on statistics as the basis of the European team’s success. “With all the material we’ve collected over the last three years, playing three Italian Opens, we’ve compiled a lot of statistics about what works and what doesn’t work on this golf course. These are an important part of the hope of a successful campaign to regain the Cup,” he said.

In addition, he spoke about the case of the Austrian Josef Straka, whose mother was American. “We are all one this week. Of course, there is no hierarchy and Sepp enjoys the team atmosphere. We saw how well he enjoyed it and he really integrated very well into the team since The Hero Cup tournament,” he said.