Former American Captain explodes Ryder Cup course: ‘Don’t like Bethpage’

The famous New York Bethpage Black The course is decorated and ready for 2025 Ryder Cup. But a former Kaponin, Paul Azinger, thinks that the PGA of America chose the wrong course to wait for the event.

But Azinger went beyond that with his criticism in a recent appearance in TREY Wingo “Straight Facts Homie!” podcastsaying he “couldn’t stay” Bethpage Black and claiming that the US Ryder Cup players “don’t love” and “don’t know” Dear Municipal Course at Long Island.

Paul Azinger rips Bethpage Black, host of 2025 Ryder Cup

Azinger has won the right to speak his mind for the US Ryder Cup team. Above all, he was a star player in his prime minister and later captured the US team for winning the 2008 Ryder in Valhalla.

And in Wingo’s podcast, speak his mind he made. Among the hotly the former Captain offered was a poor criticism of this year’s host course, the black course at Bethpage State Park.

Designed by the legend of the AW Tilinghast Court Architecture, Bethpage Black ranks 34th 100 Main Golf Courses on US List and 60th in 100 main courses on the world list.

But Azinger has no love for the famous course, in which he lost the cut during the US Open 2002.

“This golf course, I’m like you. I couldn’t bear it,” Azinger Wingo told. “I played my practice rounds, I did my two rounds and I think I was 18 years old for two days in Sh.BA Open. The media loved it because it was a public course. What would you do if they play US Open every five years? I think I’ll get every fifth year.”

It continued by criticizing specific design aspects that for some represent the strategic genius of the course. But Azinger has no love for them.

“I really don’t like Beethpage Black. There are many difficult views, shots in the tutelage on straight streets singing away, uphill shooting where you can’t see the landing area,” Azinger said. “Jew is just hard and you can’t crash your way there.”

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Azinger claims that Ryder Cup team doesn’t know Bethpage Black

The 2008 Ryder Cup captain did not limit his criticism to his personal feelings for Bethpage Black. He also claimed to be a “mistake” that gave the Ryder Cup because American players “are not known the course. In that way, Azinger argued, the US team does not benefit from playing the Ryder Cup there.

“No, at all. We don’t know the course,” Azinger said. “I think one of the biggest mistakes that American team Ryder Cup always seems to do, or America’s PGA is that they go to courses with which we are not known.”

Many of the players know the course and have played a big championship there. Bethpage Black for the first time waited for US Open in 2002 and again in 2009. While those tours were before many current players’ careers began, black recently hosted the PGA 2019 championship.

She also hosted the Barclays PGA Tour event in 2012 and 2014. But the team’s recognition of the course goes beyond that.

American captain KEEGAN BRADLEY played the course regularly in collegeAnd team member Cameron Young, a New York locals, won the New York State 2017 in the black course.

Earlier this summer at the tour championship, Young claimed his love for the course.

“I’ve just always loved him. Just just a direct golf course with a big guy. There are just many friends about it. Greens are not crazy, the right roads are not really, really tight. It is’ long, but it’s not the longest place in the world,” Young said in East Lake. “But it’s just straight and forward, it’s hard. That’s the kind of golf I like.”

But Azinger argued that the opposite, claiming he could “guarantee” that American players do not love Bethpage Black.

“I feel like Keegan will have to take these guys into a mission and on a mission quickly and with single mind to understand how to fall in love with Bethpage Black. I guarantee you don’t want it. I and you don’t want it. They don’t want it,” Azinger said. “Europe doesn’t care what the course is. Our boys can be.”

Later in Podcast’s appearance, Azinger offered another reason the US has no advantage in the black course claiming that Captain Bradley has no control over the course configuration.

“I know that no team has a course control now, supposedly,” Azinger claimed. “Europe always controlled the course over us. I am the only American captain ever – it was the first captain to want to control the course in some capacities and so I don’t know if they have lost that ability now to do it, but I see no advantage.”

He also echoed a recent conversation point from European captain Luke Donald about New York fans. Azinger believes if the US plays badly, the crowd could return to the US team.

“Even the crowd. I feel if SH.BA will start at a bad start, and the crowd can be unstable there,” Azinger said. “That’s why I told Keegan immediately from the gate, Buddy, you have to win the crowd.”

Azinger says we have to prepare Europe

Despite all his criticism of the 2025 host course, Azinger also expressed confidence in the US captain and the preparation of the team, opposing it with the lack of preparation in the 2023 Ryder Cup.

“We were prepared outside the last time and I don’t think we’ll be prepared this time,” Azinger said. “Our boys are playing coming, they didn’t play five weeks in a row going to Ryder Cup in Italy, which was a disaster.”

He went on: “They just destroyed us in that Ryder cup. There is no shortcut for success, you will not hope for it or want it. We have the 12 best Americans, and they just have to prepare Europeans, in short.”

At the end of the interview, Azinger repeated that he thinks Captain Bradley has everything “crushed”. But he offered a recent advice to the US Captain 2025.

“I wouldn’t play videos of people like Michael Jordan wishing them luck and the president wishing them luck, it just makes you want to jump,” Azinger said. “That doesn’t help me. I already know they want us to win. He never helped me, I hated it. That made me more nervous.”

The first matches of the 2025 Ryder Cup begin Friday morning, September 26.