The PGA of America is the governing body for the United States Ryder Cup team.
The PGA of America oversees all operations when the Ryder Cup is played on American soil, including team selections, and commercial rights for the matches.
The next instalment of the Ryder Cup will be at Adare Manor in Ireland in 2027, with the Europeans looking to make it three wins on the bounce.
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Then the competition will head back to the United States two years later, with Hazeltine set to host the 47th edition of the competition.
Team USA will be desperate to stop the rot and bring the Ryder Cup trophy back to U.S. soil in 2027.
However, if they are unable to do that, winning at Hazeltine in 2029 will become an absolute necessity.
And now the PGA of America have inadvertently given themselves the masterplan to help the American team win the Ryder Cup, after the way in which they set up the golf course at Aronimink for the PGA Championship.
PGA of America has a blueprint for Ryder Cup success after Aronimink setup
Many of the best golfers in the world really struggled to get to grips with the challenge presented at Aronimink last week.
The golf course was setup to a point where even-par was a very good score on pretty much every day of the tournament.
And the PGA of America absolutely must take last week as a green light to make winning at Hazeltine in 2029 a far more realistic prospect for the American team.
If anything, the week at Aronimink proved that the best way forward for the Americans is to create a course whereby marginal gains are taken away from the players.
While Hazeltine doesn’t have the green complexes that Aronimink does, the PGA of America will still be able to trick up the pin positions.
While that will make things equally as hard for the American players as it will be for the Europeans, it should even out the playing field.
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The field was incredibly bunched at the PGA Championship last week because nobody was given the chance to really separate themselves due to challenging pin locations and the firm and fast fairways and greens.
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Of course, Aaron Rai pulled away and won by three strokes in the end but that was only down to a spell of truly sensational, once-in-a-lifetime golf.
Team Europe is well-known for being incredibly thorough with data analysis and statistics. Their approach to the behind the scenes work is what has given them the edge over the Americans in recent times.
However, that would all be taken away if a more challenging setup was laid out by the PGA of America at the Ryder Cup in 2029.
It would make luck more of a factor and perhaps that’s exactly what the United States need right now in order for the pendulum to swing back in their favor.
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