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Why are some ideas? Here's mine:

1. Have a 12 month qualifying period just like the Europeans do. Nothing wrong with imitiating success..

2. Weight our non-majors according to strength of field (i.e world rankings)

3. Give bonus points according to performance in team events like CVS New England Classic (Faxon/Andrade event) and Shark Templeton Shootout. It may not be match play but any team play experiecne is better than none.

I completely disagree with the last reason because those events are just set up for fun. Yu could as easily just ask the guys to practise foursomes and fourballs in their practise rounds leading up to the Ryder Cup.

That is part of my reasoning, so we will learn to have fun and relax.

Who is we?

The guys who played well, were having fun doing it. Cink had fun defeating Garcia. Zach Johnson had fun when he made 8 birdies during that one round of the team event. DiMarco has as much fun as anyone, when he plays well.

It is not about having fun. The US side would of had a lot of fun had they won by 9. But Tiger is never going to have fun when he is making NO birdies.

As for what to do when they get to the event, it is somewhat simple, play better. You can't have the top 3 players in the world walk away with less than 9 points.

There are other factors IMO. I agree the system we use is flawed. 3 guys made the team that did not belong there. Maybe in the future they will become stalwarts but for this event there were a lot of better, more experienced players. Verplank and Cink should of make the team on points. Lehmann should have been able to select Love and Freddie as captains picks. Would of made a huge difference.

The other factore to the blowout was the line-ups but the number one reasons has to be the play of the top US players. They just didn't get it done the way the top Euros did. Monty and Garcia show up and they have a lot of help behind them now in Donald, Casey Howell and Paddy (though he was not on top of his game at the last one) and back those guys up with the experience and success of Clarke, Westwood and mostly Olazabal and you've got one **** of a Ryder Cup team.

After watching the Golf Channel and hearing that the Europeans discuss the Ryder Cup as nice and fun and we discuss it as war and guts, I think that rang a message.

The Eureopeans learned to enjoy it even when they hit a bad shot. We've got to learn to relax when we hit bad shots. I've heard over and over again that our tenseless during the competition certainly doesn't help.

Until we can enjoy the competition, I think we will always continue to shoot ourseleves in the foot.

And, I don't think Freddie and Davis would have helped much more. We may have lost 17-11 instead of 18.5-9.5. Neither player does much inspiring and both are well past their prime.

Fact is, that we are serious underdogs. After the top 3, we simplay don't match up talent wise to Europe.

It's about being competiitve, yet being able to let a bad shot go. Think being effective instead.
The US team tried so hard they stopped being effective. It seemed to me that the US team kept trying to make up lost ground, rather than focusing on the shot on hand.

The US selection system really does need to weight tournaments differently, so that wins when the majors are on elsewhere should not be treated the same as a full field event.

5 from World rsnkings, 5 not otherwise qualified from the US money winners for that season much as we do in Europe may help gain a better in depth field.

We Europeans do have better strength in depth