“The fast start helps because then the other team, they have to start to press. Maybe they chase pins. Who knows, maybe make mistakes, maybe start to get aggressive on the greens. Obviously we had them exactly where we wanted them today, but we just kept piling on the pressure.

Preparation the key for Los Angeles Golf Club

L.A.’s secret sauce is not all fun and games. The team, which also includes Sahith Theegala, who was not active Tuesday, spent several hours inside SoFi Center the day before its match against Boston strategizing and trying to figure out the synthetic greens.

In other words, treating this as much as a competition as a fun night out with the boys.

“Like Tommy said, out there early,” Rose said. “Maybe what surprised him is how much we’ve actually treated it like this is exactly what we do. This is how we prepare for any other big tournament that we play in. We are competitive. We want to be prepared.”

Fleetwood’s missed L.A.’s first match with Theegala filling one of the three roster spots.

“I think that’s exactly how we worked as a team out there,” Rose continued. “Even in practice, we were sort of getting the rhythm going … ‘okay, how does the triples feel?’ … ‘how do we read putts?’ … ‘in this scenario, who’s going to call the shot clock?’ … try to give the other player comfort and time. So there was a lot of mini-strategies out there, obviously, and then you have to hit golf shots, which these two lads are pretty awesome at.”