team mentality

With the ryder cup nearly with us I played a texas scramble at the weekend and afterwards was wondering how the players change their mentality form what is fundamentally a lone sport in to a team game. I found this difficult playing my first team event especially when putting when a partner had already got close to the hole and instead of just going for it when already guarenteed a par or birdie i was tentative with the stroke and always seemed to come up short.

"18 holes you would be a physical wreak" WRECK, tut tut Santo