Tiger Woods has confirmed he has been asked to captain the USA team at the Ryder Cup next year. Woods, who has not played competitively since the 2024 Open Championship, has also somewhat remarkably left the door open to teeing up in the Masters this\u00a0year.<\/p>\n
With the USA still reeling from defeat by Europe at Bethpage in September<\/a>, thoughts have turned towards attempts to reclaim the Ryder Cup in Ireland. Woods is the PGA of America\u2019s first choice as captain. The 50-year-old will determine whether he believes he can commit sufficiently to the role.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have asked me for my input on it and I haven\u2019t made my \u00addecision yet,\u201d Woods said. \u201cI\u2019m \u00adtrying to \u00adfigure out what we\u2019re trying to do with our [PGA] tour. That\u2019s been driving me hours upon hours every day and \u00adtrying to figure out if I\u00a0can actually do\u00a0\u2026 our Team USA and our \u00adplayers and everyone that\u2019s going to be involved in the Ryder Cup<\/a>, if I can do it justice with my time.<\/p>\n \u201cServing on two boards and what I\u2019m doing for the PGA Tour, I\u2019m \u00adtrying to figure out if I can actually do this and serve the people that are involved and serve them at an honourable level.\u201d<\/p>\n Tiger Woods played for the US at eight Ryder Cups and could captain their attempt to reclaim the trophy in 2027. Photograph: Matt Dunham\/AP<\/p>\n Woods has a longtime alliance with JP McManus, the owner of the Ryder Cup venue at Adare Manor. Europe are still to confirm captaincy plans for 2027 but the expectation is that Luke\u00a0Donald will remain in position for a third Ryder Cup in succession. Needless to say, the PGA Tour will want to avoid any Woods decision\u2011making process turning into a saga.<\/p>\n The 15-time major winner is part of a PGA Tour committee which will soon reshape the tournament \u00adschedule. \u201cI thought I spent a lot of hours practising in my prime,\u201d Woods said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t even compare to what we\u2019ve done in the boardroom. It\u2019s been challenging. We\u2019re trying to do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Woods was \u00adspeaking in Los\u00a0\u00adAngeles, where he is the tournament host at the \u00adGenesis Invitational. He underwent disc replacement surgery on his back last October. It was a surprise, then, to hear his answer when asked whether Augusta National and a Masters appearance in less than two months\u2019 time is off the table. \u201cNo,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cMy body has been through a lot. It\u2019s just one of those things where it\u2019s each and every day, I keep trying, I keep progressing, I keep working on it, trying to get stronger, trying to get more endurance in this body and \u00adtrying to get it at a level at which I can play at the highest level again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods has confirmed he has been asked to captain the USA team at the Ryder Cup next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-475842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}