US Ryder Cup teamSimply counting the personnel in uniform is greater than you can imagine. There are 12 players and their 12 cadets, and the velvet have a captain (veteran Looper Scott Vail), so he is 25 years old. team captain And his five assistants take you to 31 years old. You can count women and girlfriends, though they are not usually in the team room, or inside the ropes. But you definitely have to count Johnny Wood. Wood, Broadcaster turned by Caddie, is American team managerthe first sometimes. In terms of employment opportunities and in any other way, Ryder Cup is a growth industry. A Ryder cup in the shouting of Empire State Building’s distance, such as this year, is a colossus.
On Wednesday evening, Wood rode on an inadequate flight overnight by Sacramento, Calif, where he lives, and arrived at JFK early on Thursday morning. He got a coffee created by the cold, gathered his suitcase and pulled up for Bethpage BlackFirst team official through team room doors. In his excited state, he opened a series of tapped boxes without the benefit of a knife. All the time, a kind of mantra ran through his head, a theme from which he had chosen KEEGAN BRADLEYThe US captain.
You never know when you are doing something for the last time, so do every second number.
John Wood has been on stage for a dozen Gota Ryder, going back to 2002, like a caddy or a broadcaster. Now he has this new concert. Will he be in the 2027 Ryder Cup in Ireland? Who can say? But there it was, on Thursday at Bethpage Black, in the local team’s closet room, in the calm before the storm, and he could not be happier. “There are a lot of great things in Golf,” will tell you Wood. “There is nothing like Ryder Cup.”
Wood is one of the golf Interesting characters. Before becoming a Caddy PGA Tour, starting with a long blow working for Kevin Sutherland, he was the Tower Book Bookstore manager in Sacramento. He is a compulsory book reader; He and Davis Love will sometimes compare notes on the life and time of writer Hunter S. Thompson. It is likely that no one in the Golf who knows more about the 1919 sox’s black gambling scandal than the wood, and whenever the wood is in Agoikago he visits the buck Weaver tombs, the short step in that infamous Chicago White Sox team. Weaver was played by John Cusack in the movie Eight men out. Excellent film but Wood has some problems with the book of the same name. Some issues are reported as a fact when they are more like theory.
Before going out on that flight JetBlue Redeye, Wood had spent two days walks and camps in the Sierra Mountains. It was just wood, with just a pack of 30 pounds (nothing for an former-cadet), a tent, some rei food and novel studFrom Percival Everett, a modern taking on Huckleberry Fin, who is Wood’s favorite literary character. His second favorite literary character is Calvin, from the late, excellent cartoon bar “Calvin and Hobbes”. Little blonde child, often reading a book or saying something wise. The wood is drawn to Holden Caufield, from Tractionforever tired of “phonies” among him. Holden escapes from one of his schools because he was “surrounded by phoning”.
Before his short trip to the camp, Wood, along with much of the US Ryder Cup team, was in Napa, Calif., At a PGA Tour event. At a team’s casual dinner that week in a private home, Bradley offered his climbing remarks. The easy getting that is, the quotation, the team of Scottie Scheffler, as the teams in the Tiger Prime Minister were quotes, Tiger Woods teams. But Bradley, Fidgety and Happy and Half Yorker, is the biggest personality in this American team. Few would not agree with this.
Seth Waugh, the former PGA of America, was the first person to think of Bradley as an impossible captain for this team. But before he even sailed Bradley’s name, Waugh asked Wood to be the team manager. This was in May last year, at a time when the reception was that Tiger Woods would be the American captain in Bethpage, where he won his first US first. Woods and Wood have a slight ratio, and their mutual interest in baseball is part of it. (Tiger’s father was a college attraction in Kansas State.) Once, at the 2017 Presidents Cup, Wood asked Woods to take a photo of Barack Obama with Caddy. Woods forced him – and Obama also did. Wood has a casual but also current type, which has made it a slight fit in Caddy yards, TV compounds and in 20 or more team rooms over the years.
Wood by calling the action in Ryder 2023 Cup.
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John Wood’s first order The business, upon arriving at Bethpage Black, was to check the team’s room, closets, lounge chairs, dinner desks and the rest. He tore a long series of boxes without the benefit of a knife. (The wood is strong and strong, these days.) He controlled and controlled, the team hotel, where he will have an 11-night stay.
The players and cadets are all on the same floor. Wood imagined the place, from the elevator bank to the team floor, where two mannequins will act as shipments of a kind. One will be dressed in the player’s uniform of that day, the other the uniform of Kadia of the day. Yes, there have been issues in the past. No, John Wood does not get credit for this important innovation. The idea came from Kelly Ford Cameron, a long -term daughter Oakmont Pro Bob Ford, who works for Ralph Lauren, official suppliers of the 2025 Ryder team uniform.
Wood made a small book special for each of the American cadah that reprints the exact language of the rules of golf rules for regulation 22, which covers the alternative game, and regulation 23, which covers the best ball game. Both forms are used during the first two days of play. Kerry Haigwho runs Ryder Cup as a competition for America’s PGA, without the rule of Wood’s “Cliffsnotes” on Thursday and said, “I did the same for the rules officials.” Excellent minds, etc.
A lot of Wood’s work in Bethpage will include logistics, and there are already. If a player needs an extra umbrella, shoelace, ticket, wood will be there, the article in hand. Upon arriving in the team’s closet room on Thursday, Wood wondered how he looked exactly as he had hoped that he would, like a large municipal room, everyone faced outside, no one is silent. This, Wood said, is really all about Ryder Cup’s experience. Win or lose, you are in a uniform. You’re on a list.
“Everyone in these teams played high school golf or college Golf,” Wood said in a telephone interview. “Then you turn the pros, and you can never play Golf Team again. And that is really what makes these ryder cups so special. All these people, pulling on the same rope.”
Pulling the same rope. A phrase of physics, withdrawal of war, naval novels. And now Golf Ryder Cup.
The 2025 Ryder Cup begins on Friday, September 26, the first ball in the air shortly after 7:10 in the morning is a three-day event. John Wood, team manager for the US team, arrived there early.
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