‘Spider’ opts for natives

US captain John “Spider” Miller has four players ranked in the world’s top 10 on his team, and five of his team are native Californians.

Miller came under fire for his captaincy decisions at Lytham when he left top-ranked Bryson Dechambeau out of two fourball series.

However, the US have abandoned their policy of automatic inclusion of two “mid-amateur” players and eight of their 10 players are 21 and under.

The matches are played over two days with four fourballs in morning sessions followed by 10 singles matches in the afternoon.

The US leads the series by a whopping 35 wins to nine, but since GB&I’s first win on US soil in 1989 the score is seven wins each.