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At the beginning of the year, a little speculation is allowed. Some disguise it as a prediction, a popular discipline in early January. The colleagues from the renowned US portal The Fried Egg recently made a bold claim looking ahead to the golf year: The PGA of America offered Tiger Woods the captaincy for the 2027 Ryder Cup expedition to Ireland, but the 50-year-old politely declined. He prefers to lead the US team when it’s a home game. The GOAT as skipper in a continental competition on home soil would likely break all records of fan hype in US golf.
Either way, it would be Woods’ second refusal, after already declining the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, which led to the appointment of the unfortunate Keegan Bradley, who since then has carried the trauma of the 2012 Medinah defeat and being overlooked for Rome 2023. This is understandable. Why give up home advantage — statistically almost nonexistent — and risk blemishing his sporting record in an away command venture with slim chances? The Americans last won in Europe in 1993 at The Belfry in England. Moreover, his opponent at Adare Manor could be Luke Donald, who has expertly outplayed the US captain twice before. This leaves the PGA of America with a dilemma since hardly anyone else is suitable for the captaincy. Let’s hope Keegan Bradley won’t have to step in again — Davis Love III, who lost at Medinah, was given a second chance, but that was in 2016 and at home. Well, speculation is allowed… The Fried Egg team also noted: