The PGA has gone completely off the beaten path and chosen 63-year-old Tom Watson to captain the 2014 USA Ryder Cup Team.  Watson will be 65 when the matches are to be played making him the oldest Ryder Cup captain ever.

Watson won eight major titles over his career including five British Open Championships.  He is beloved in Scotland and throughout Europe.  It will be difficult for the Euros to root against “Tom Terrific” and his band of merry Ryder Cuppers when they invade Gleneagles.

He played on four Ryder Cup teams during his career with an overall record of 10-4-1.  He missed out on a fifth appearance in the Ryder Cup to stay home for the birth of one of his children.

Most importantly Watson was USA team captain in 1993 the last time that the American team won a Ryder Cup on foreign soil.  The U.S. is 2-7 for the last nine Ryder Cups.  Both of those wins came in the U.S.  In 1999 Ben Crenshaw "had a feeling" at Brookline and in 2008 Paul Azinger used the “Pod Theory” to eke out wins over the Euros.

Watson will not be a touchy feely, manage by committee type of captain.  The young golfers of today that will make up the 2014 Ryder Cup team should expect a slightly different reception from their legendary captain.  He has been there….done that and he will expect his team to be serious in their efforts to retake the cup from the dastardly Euros.

I don’t think you will see a Michael Jordan hanging around or foosball and ping pong tables in the team room.  Watson will want his team focused on the task at hand.

The PGA has gone old school with their selection of Watson.  The recent Ryder Cup record speaks for itself.  Something needed to be done.  To continue to operate as normal was just not acceptable.

New PGA President Ted Bishop made a bold management decision in his choice for Ryder Cup Captain .

If it will work is yet to be seen.