At the end of the day the US team just looks like a team who hasn't played much golf recently, had a few guys skip a scouting trip one of which was for endorsement stuff, another couple guys fly over separate from the team, all lead by someone who has next to zero leadership qualities but was next in line so he was appointed. It's not really any one of those things that's the problem when they go to Europe. It's just the general treatment of the event by the players and the treatment of the captaincy by the decision makers all mostly because Phil threw a fit when the team played like **** so now there's this closed system to choose the captain from.