United States Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger has swapped the playing format for the opening session of this year's matches in an attempt to stem the flow of defeats for his nation.
The opening sessions at Louisville, Kentucky have been switched from four-balls to foursomes for the first time since the last US victory in Brookline, 1999.
"I've decided to change that back," said Azinger. "I hope it's the right decision. We're switching, we're going back to alternate shot in the morning and we'll just see how it plays out.
"I felt like the Americans had an edge in alternate shot and I think it's partly responsible for why Europe have gotten off to a pretty good start."
This isn't the first radical change the 48-year-old has made to his approach to the matches, which will be played at Valhalla Golf Club from September 19-21. He announced a revamped selection process which will give him the most in-form players for the matches.
Instead of getting just the two wildcard picks he will hold four for this year's encounter with eight automatic places in his 12-man team going to the top eight money winners leading up to the matches.
"We made the change in the selection process and I really believe that's going to help us," he added. "I think that Europe has had a better selection process. It's party the reason why they've played so much better than us in the last few Ryder Cups.
"They've won five of the last six and I'm hoping that the selection process we put in place is going to get the best American players on this team."