For several years, the popular game of the 19th Hall of 19- Name it captain! – It was hot red when the topic addressed the US team captain for that Ryder cup THEir Bethpage Black.
For the longest time, Phil was the leader at the club. The contestants withdrew from the fateful charm of Leftander, cumulatively acquired by four Second place of the US Open ends in Greater New York, plus all of Fried-Hillc and Garden State’s love that came on his way winning the PGA championship in Balloon. But then Phil went liv and all bets were out.
Then then it had to be a tiger, right? Woods, the king of kings, did not receive the ’23 captain of Rome, so he would probably get his work in Bethpage, where he won his second US second. Or not? He certainly did not need a test as an auxiliary captain. By no means. Not after masterful work in the 2019 Presidents Cup, a road game in Royal. As a captain there, he stubbornly (and brilliantly) stuck his play plan, and even for Patrick Reed, despite a four -point deficit in the middle of the 3rd day (from 4). His performance on the course was even better, playing collision golf and run as a jewel thief. Americans won and Woods became the last statement what it means to be a captain playing. Talk about allowing the legend to grow.
But when the US team is presented at the scheduled opening ceremonies in Bethpage on Wednesday afternoon, it will certainly not be Tiger Woods on the podium, calling Ben Griffin’s name, plus the other 11 players and five US aid captains. Will not be Phil Mickelson in friend. It will not be Zach Johnson, who could have been given a second blow after Kapitency had his team to win in Italy two years ago. (Luke Donald Captain his way to this year’s European team winning in Rome.) Of course it will be Keegan Bradley. Practically no one plays Name it captain! saw up THAT Comes, and then it happened. Three days in this weekly and professionally managed week, Keegan is her star. The real action begins on Friday morning.
So while we are here, let’s play a quick round of Name that captain, ’27! In two years, the Ryder Cup will be in Adare Manor at County Limerick in Ireland.
Brandel Chamblee, in a casual aside on Golf Channel, said he expects Tiger to be the American captain in Ireland.
You can see it. Tiger likes Ireland. He likes JP McMmanus, the owner of Adare Manor. He likes the people of Ireland, fishing there, books. He liked the challenge of trying to win abroad in Royal Melbourne.
Everyone will become clearer until Sunday at night. If SH.BA wins this week my assumption is that KEEGAN BRADLEY Will get a second team in Ireland. Even a narrow loss of call could take it a second knot. For one thing, his name is Keegan Bradley – while the names go, that’s pretty Irish. He grew up in Boston Celtics. As American sports teams go, this is as Irish as he gets. He has a new team, so there is no reason to think that there will be a sea change on the American list in two years. As Johnny Wood, American team managersaid another day, “Professional players love sustainability. They don’t like change.” On Sunday evening, we will know much more about the ’27 captain. So the Ryder ’29 Cup in Hazeline for Tiger? The sparks are not flying.
Woods can never catch a team Ryder Cup. It’s weird to think, right? And it’s weird to think that Phil Mickelson can never capture a Ryder Cup team. so strange. The two most decorated players, celebrated famous American of the last 30 years NO Following the footsteps, they left different rooms of the team from Byron Nelson, Sam Snead, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson.
According to tradition, Golf Elite Professional appreciates his traditions more than his payment. But when Phil Mickelson went liv, he turned his back on that tradition and is likely to take his place in that parade of the Hogan-Arnold-Nicklaus Ryder Cup.
But Tiger Woods also did. No, of course, going liv. Woods has done the opposite. He had doubled and tripled in PGA Tour. But when he said, in connection with this 2025 Ryder Cup team, that he could not make the work he sought in time, he was probably telling the truth, but not the whole truth. Because he was also saying, implying, I don’t want to make time for it. He did not say that this former exhibition of goodwill for the rights of boasting had become a prevailing international sports extravagant, in which the captain is a st.
If you are Tiger Woods, there is no upside to be the captain of Ryder Cup. For Keegan Bradley there. Ditto for Luke Donald. But if you are the only alive player with 82 PGA Tour’s winning and 15 main titles, winning a Ryder cup as the captain does nothing for your legend inheritance. The loss hurts it. You don’t have to hit a stroke, and the requirements are too high. Woods would never say that, but when you think about it, it’s clear: it’s more trouble than it’s worth it.
If Woods does not have a heart change.
Play Name it captain! There has never been a lid again. Not like this, anyway.
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