rsvman2 The Achilles' heel in this theory is that the putt only has meaning if the viewers care about the team aspect they created.
I largely agree, but sometimes that individual facing the putt may be someone I'm (irrationally) rooting for or against or is a member of a team with someone that is. It's terrible that I have personal feelings about people I don't actually know and that don't impact me in any meaningful way.
It's a stretch, but I wonder if during the last event, there might have been some that hate Patrick Reed, but were still rooting for him because it would help out Pat Perez, Taylor Gooch, or Dustin Johnson, or vice-versa?