It was a system of hire and fire and trial and error, players bought and played a couple of times and never seen again.
In his book "Tennis: Winning the Mental Game," Allen Fox describes the steady, low-error player as "risk-averse" and "basically conservative," whereas the aggressive player tends to be more happy-go-lucky, a gambler.
Constant errors, including players serving into the net, featured in the match which the Chinese top seeds lost.
But the result wasn't decided by the opposition it was decided by individual errors by players.
In the immediate aftermath of the first leg, Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend pointed to the number of errors his players had made.
"I know it's hard to say that, but I actually played well and I just made a lot of little mental errors". Seven players ended two-under, including Brandt Snedeker, who has twice played in Sunday's final group at Augusta, and Kevin Stadler, who was making history alongside dad Craig as the first father and son to play in the same Masters.
"But Djokovic will get too many balls back, put him in too many uncomfortable positions and Stan will make too many errors". The players are going through the final stages of their warm-up, just a minute or so until the match gets under way.
"We currently have 22 match officials on the Fifa list and while they are as susceptible to human error as players and managers, I reiterate my support to the match officials at all levels in this country," the chief executive explained.
However, much of its design revolves around trial and error, so players can quickly diagnose what worked and what didn't in their creations.
