Swing of the Day: Tiger Woods Ready to Win Ryder Cup Title
Tiger Woods is still deciding whether to accept the USA Ryder Cup captaincy for 2027, a role he declined for 2025.
The 2027 Ryder Cup in Ireland is still 18 months away, but the build-up has already started, and Luke Donald’s reappointment as European skipper last week got the ball rolling. For the USA, meanwhile, it’s something of a waiting game as Tiger Woods hums and haws over the job offer. Procrastination is the thief of time, Tiger m’lad.
A decade ago, Tiger became vice captain It’s been 10 years since Woods first played a very different role in the Ryder Cup. Having made his debut as a competitor in 1997, Tiger was a non-playing vice-captain at Hazeltine in 2016. This most individual of individuals relished a more subservient position, too.
Greats like Hogan, Palmer and Nicklaus never performed the assisting job, but this other golfing great embraced it with gusto. “Tiger, can you take those turkey sandwiches out to the boys on the 10th, please? ” It was certainly not a chore you would’ve envisaged him doing in his pomp.
But those were the kind of myriad tasks that were part and parcel of being a vice-captain. From informant to confidant, cheerleader to deliverer of packed lunches, Woods was doing everything that week apart from hitting shots as he reinvented himself as a mentor to many of the younger American players. Woods was always going to be the U.