{"id":380308,"date":"2026-01-20T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380308\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:01:08","slug":"luke-donald-to-hold-talks-with-ryder-cup-executives-as-he-eyes-third-tilt-at-captaincy-ryder-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380308\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Donald to hold talks with Ryder Cup executives as he eyes third tilt at captaincy | Ryder Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luke Donald will hold talks with senior officials at the European Tour Group this week in Dubai, as the Englishman edges closer to a third stint as Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup captain. While no announcement is imminent, there is a rising sense Donald will seek to make history by leading Europe to three Ryder Cup successes in a row.<\/p>\n

Donald, who is in the field for this weekend\u2019s Dubai Desert Classic, has taken time to consider his position since Europe retained the trophy at Bethpage in September<\/a>. The former world No 1 had already been the captain when Europe prevailed in Rome two years earlier. \u201cI think it\u2019s Luke\u2019s if he wants it,\u201d said Shane Lowry, a key member of the European team. The next Ryder Cup takes place at Adare Manor next year.<\/p>\n

Uppermost in Donald\u2019s thoughts is the commitment required for a third tenure, placed against his family life. There is also an element of golf politics at play. A date is still to be set for Tyrrell Hatton and Jon Rahm to have an appeal heard against sanctions<\/a> implemented by the European Tour Group for their participation in LIV Golf. That scenario has potential to be both messy and extremely relevant in Ryder Cup context, with Rahm in particular believed have no intention of paying fines. Hatton and Rahm would ordinarily be central to a European Ryder Cup defence.<\/p>\n

Justin Rose, who was seen as a contender to succeed Donald, has designs on playing at Adare. The only other viable option is seen as the Italian Francesco Molinari. \u201cDoes he want it or not? I\u2019m not sure,\u201d added Lowry of Donald. \u201cIt\u2019s a big undertaking for him and he\u2019s obviously been very successful. Obviously there\u2019s a huge carrot dangling there to go three in a row and be the only person to do that. But that\u2019s up to him. He\u2019s here this week. I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll have conversations about it this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs there a template there? Probably yes. But I think the last two Ryder Cups and the continuity of it all was amazing and it obviously will be good to have that for Adare Manor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is his decision. It is a big undertaking for him, and it\u2019s also a big undertaking for his family because he will be travelling a lot more. He\u2019ll be in Ireland a lot obviously getting ready for it. When you\u2019re doing a home Ryder Cup, there\u2019s a lot more planning with you and your wife and stuff. I\u2019d certainly love to see him as a captain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowry has shrugged off any sense of controversy attached to Brooks Koepka\u2019s upcoming return to the PGA Tour. Koepka has departed the LIV scene after four seasons. \u201cI think it\u2019s good for him that he wanted to get off LIV and he got back really quickly,\u201d said Lowry. \u201cLike I think it\u2019s good for the PGA Tour as in Brooks is going to play a lot of the smaller events. So that\u2019s going to add to those.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t say I don\u2019t care because that\u2019s a headline. But like I don\u2019t really mind about any of them [coming back]. It doesn\u2019t bother me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Donald will hold talks with senior officials at the European Tour Group this week in Dubai, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-380308","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\/380308","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=380308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}