Jawn Dough said:bagger05 said:
When Luke Donald talked about swapping out the bedding at the hotel and blocking the sliver of light that came in under the door it was pretty clear to me that they're doing the "aggregation of marginal gains" that they talk about in the book Atomic Habits.
https://jamesclear.com/marginal-gains
The same thing goes with the golf stat stuff. When they talk about course setup and all that, they're looking for anything that will give them a 1% improvement. No one thing makes much difference but add up a thousand little things and it makes a big difference.
Comes down to culture and leadership. US just doesn't have a system and they do.
Maybe it's just a bit of arrogance thinking that we don't need to do all these things that seem inconsequential because we believe we can beat them on talent alone.
In the words of Herb Brooks, we don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.