Ryder Cup Task Force Expects To Include Azinger

Tim Rosaforte follows up on the PGA of America's Ryder Cup task force plan by talking to PGA President Ted Bishop, the Morgan Freeman to Tom Watson’s Jessica Tandy, and who accepts the PGA of America has to do something different in approaching the biennial event. Again.

From Rosaforte's GolfDigest.com report:

"We wouldn't be responsible stakeholders if we didn't take this approach. After 20 years of futility, we've got to do something different," Bishop said. "It is different for us to reach out and solicit the opinions of the people we're going to do that with, but I think it's a good thing. Losing this Ryder Cup precipitated the changes, not what Phil Mickelson had to say."

But as one person noted anonymously in Jim McCabe's report, a comprehensive review that might include elements of Ryder Cup visionary Paul Azinger's recipe does not happen without Mickelson's public approach.

Meanwhile, as we sift through the wreckage, it's worth watching Cara Robinson's Golfing World look inside the USA Team Crime Scene Room, which I'm guessing won't be a place sought after at Gleneagles considering the negative energy that may haunt the carpet there for decades to come. Hopefully the yellow crime scene tape covering the door has come down by now.

Then agan, as Luke Kerr-Dineen notes, a Wounded Warrior got to hang out there and has now made a magazine cover, so there may be hope for that room yet.