{"id":295888,"date":"2025-12-03T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/295888\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:27:11","slug":"no-ones-asked-me-about-us-captaincy-for-2027-ryder-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/295888\/","title":{"rendered":"No one\u2019s asked me about US captaincy for 2027 Ryder Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiger Woods<\/a> has returned to the spotlight with what might be termed a lack-of-progress report. His rehab from a seventh back operation is not going as smoothly as he had hoped, and he has not been approached about becoming the USA\u2019s captain for the next Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

He did offer more fuel to talk about a streamlined PGA Tour<\/a>, which he said could result in \u201ca financial windfall for everyone\u201d, and said the Future Competition Committee (FCC), on which he sits, is trying to create \u201cglobal opportunities for our players\u201d.<\/p>\n

Details were lacking on some issues, but there was one hard fact when asked if Ryder Cup<\/a> captain was a role he wanted for 2027 at Adare Manor in Ireland. \u201cNo one has asked me about it,\u201d Woods said before his Hero World Challenge knees-up in the Bahamas. When the inquisitor said he was asking, Woods repeated: \u201cNo one\u2019s asked me about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woods turned down the role for the USA\u2019s defeat at Bethpage Black in September<\/a>, citing too many other commitments. His friendship with JP McManus, the owner of Adare Manor, means many have had him down as the captain-in-waiting, but you might have expected some contact from the PGA of America. Perhaps this was an unsubtle hint.<\/p>\n

\"Tiger<\/p>\n

Woods is undergoing rehabilitation from back surgery and will miss the pre-Christmas PNC Championship<\/p>\n

TIM HEITMAN\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n

Woods, who turns 50 this month, was on surer, more familiar ground when attention turned to his fitness. He has not played since missing the cut at last year\u2019s Open Championship, and has completed only one event \u2014 finishing 60th at the Masters \u2014 in two years. <\/p>\n

The world No2,454 had disc replacement surgery in October and said: \u201cIt\u2019s six weeks last Friday and it\u2019s been slow \u2014 I can\u2019t really do much. Now we\u2019ve got the OK to start cranking up a little bit in the gym, I\u2019ve started strengthening and doing a little bit more of the rotational component that I haven\u2019t been able to do. I just got cleared last week to chip and putt.\u201d<\/p>\n

That means he will not be playing with his 16-year-old son, Charlie, at the pre-Christmas PNC Championship, as he has previously, and will miss at least the first chunk of his TGL indoor league. \u201cA disc replacement takes time. It\u2019s not as long as a fusion, thank God, but it\u2019s going to take time,\u201d Woods added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to come back to just playing golf again. I haven\u2019t played golf in a long time. It\u2019s been a tough year. I\u2019ve had a lot of things happen on and off the golf course.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Tiger<\/p>\n

Woods is expected to miss the start of his TGL indoor league, which begins on December 28<\/p>\n

CARMEN MANDATO\/TGL\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n

It is hard to think there is much left in Tiger\u2019s tank, but 15 majors mean people will keep asking. Turning 50 means he will be eligible for the PGA Champions Tour, but Woods said he had not looked at the seniors\u2019 tour schedule in any depth. \u201cI need time to figure this out with my back and with my body,\u201d he said. \u201cAs I start to get more explosive and start to rotate and see what I\u2019ve got, then I can find out or assess what tournaments I could play in.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has seemed obvious for some time that Woods\u2019s most significant role is now off the course. He said the FCC had so far held three meetings, with a new, leaner schedule likely to be rolled out in 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe start talking to the players, what would they like to see, how can players have the promotion-relegation, how can we have more player equity involvement,\u201d he said. \u201cThese are all things that we\u2019re trying to include and all the things that we\u2019re trying to change. <\/p>\n

\u201cYes, there\u2019s going to be some eggs that are spilt and crushed and broken, but I think that in the end, we\u2019re going to have a product that is far better than what we have now for everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

A truncated 20-event schedule, plus majors, would no doubt go down well with the DP World Tour. \u201cScarcity\u201d has become a PGA Tour buzzword in recent times, led by the new chief executive, Brian Rolapp. Effectively, less is more, and Woods underlined the theory. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have scarcity at a certain level, it will be better because it will drive more eyes because there will be less time,\u201d he said. \u201cBut don\u2019t forget the golfing year is long so there\u2019s other places around the world. There\u2019s a scarcity side of it that\u2019s not as scary as people might think.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods has returned to the spotlight with what might be termed a lack-of-progress report. His rehab from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-295888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}