If Brandt Snedeker is auditioning for a future Ryder Cup role, putting yourself on the back foot is not a great way to start.Snedeker leads Team USA into the Presidents Cup on Thursday and admitted his early plans had been thrown into chaos in his press conference.Brandt Snedeker has assembled a brains trust of past and future USA captainsGettySnedeker is leading a USA team expected to win on home soilGettySnedeker has already faced criticism for overlooking 2025 US Open champion JJ Spaun, including from the player himself, but on this occasion the blame is slightly out of his control.With home advantage at Medinah Country Club, Snedeker had cooked up a plan to try and ensure the course was set up to benefit his team.However almost two weeks of torrential rain in the area have softened the course setup at Medinah No 3.“You can have a great plan in front of you, but Mother Nature throws a wrench in it, and there’s other factors you have to deal with,” Snedeker said.“You try to do everything you can to stack the odds in your favor, but at the end of the day, the guys have got to go out there and do it.”Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley suffered a similar fate at the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black last year, when the weather and his decision to cut back the rough played into European hands.Europe led 5.5-2.5 after the first day and extended that lead to seven points by the end of Saturday’s play.With the action at the Presidents Cup underway on Thursday it remains to be seen what effect the weather takes on Snedeker’s setup, but its far from ideal.“As a home captain, that’s one of the advantages. You get to set parameters with how the golf course should be set up,” he added.“I was very clear with our Tour staff of how we wanted this place to try to get to, kind of eerily similar to what happened at Bethpage, has not gone according to plan.”Only one previous American captain has lost the Presidents CupGettyScottie Scheffler and Sam Burns have been paired together despite failing to win a match as a teamGettyHow many times have USA won Presidents Cup?Team USA are overwhelming favorites to win an 11th successive Presidents Cup and 14th overall when they take on the Geoff Ogilvy’s International crew just outside Chicago.Snedeker announced his selections on Wednesday for Thursday’s five fourball matches and as expected world No.1 Scottie Scheffler was alongside Sam Burns, despite the pair’s poor record together.They will take on Min Woo Lee and Sungjae Im in front of an opening tee that is expected to be packed to it’s 15,000 capacity.Jackson Koivun (r) will make his President’s Cup debut alongside Justin Thomas (c)GettyWorld No 3 Cameron Young teams up with two-time major champion Xander Schauffele to face Japanese pair Hideki Matsuyama and Ryo Hisatsune in match two.Rookie Jackson Koivun has been practising with veteran Presidents and Ryder Cup player Justin Thomas all week, and they’ will team up in match three against Corey Conners and Nico Echavarria.Australian duo Adam Scott and Ryan Fox, the reigning Open champion will take on reigning US Open champion Wyndham Clark and Collin Morikawa.And in the final match of the opening day, the USA have paired Chris Gotterup and Patrick Cantlay against the International tried and trusted pairing of Tom Kim and Si Woo Kim.Russell Henly and Jacob Bridgeman miss out for the USA, while South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Canada’s Nick Taylor will watch on for the Internationals.