Luke Donald has not ruled out serving a third term as European Ryder Cup captain.<\/p>\n
A clamour is already growing for the 47-year-old to stay on after masterminding a second successive triumph over the United States.<\/p>\n
The latest win arrived in dramatic circumstances at Bethpage Black on Sunday as Donald’s side held off a stunning fightback from the hosts to prevail 15-13.<\/p>\n
It was Europe’s first success in the US since 2012 and, coming after their comprehensive triumph in Rome two years ago, assured Donald of a place among the competition’s greats.<\/p>\n
As after the Italian win, the calls for Donald stay on for another term began almost immediately with celebrating players chanting “two more years” towards their inspirational leader.<\/p>\n
The next contest is at Adare Manor in Co Limerick in 2027.<\/p>\n
Donald told BBC Sport: “A lot of people questioned why I would do it a second time after doing it so well in Rome, but home and away is a different challenge and I’ve ticked both those boxes.<\/p>\n
“Whether I do it again is something I’ll have to think about.”<\/p>\n
He added: “I’m very humbled and grateful that some of the players and the fans were chanting two years again. I’ll never rule (it) out.<\/p>\n
“I’m not going to rush into a decision like this today. I just want to enjoy this one.”<\/p>\n
Donald left nothing to chance in his preparations for the event and his tactical decisions almost all came off.<\/p>\n
Jon Rahm, who helped deliver three points, was one player to heap praise on the captain.<\/p>\n
“There’s so many things that Luke has done outstandingly professionally, so perfect,” said the Spaniard.<\/p>\n
“He is the captain of this ship, and he’s led us better than I can see anybody leading us. He’s set the bar extremely high for the future captains.”<\/p>\n
Donald gave some insight into the level of detail he had gone into during the team’s post-event press conference.<\/p>\n
Much was made of the virtual reality headsets he used in an attempt to prepare the team for the hostile reception they duly encountered.<\/p>\n
Yet his planning went much deeper, with even bed coverings and the scent of shampoo being considered.<\/p>\n
He said: “My job is literally to give these guys a better chance to win. It can be as simple as some very small things.<\/p>\n
“I’ll give you an example. The doors to our hotel rooms had a big crack that let in light. We brought things that covered the light.<\/p>\n
“We put different shampoos that had a better smell. We changed the bedding because the beds weren’t very good.<\/p>\n
“We created much nicer beds so guys could sleep, they could have more energy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Donald has not ruled out serving a third term as European Ryder Cup captain. A clamour is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-180650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}