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At the start of the year, a little speculation is allowed. Some disguise it as a prediction, a very popular discipline in early January. The colleagues from the renowned US portal The Fried Egg have made a bold claim looking ahead to the upcoming golf year: The PGA of America offers Tiger Woods the role of captain for the Ryder Cup 2027 in Ireland, but the 50-year-old politely declines. He prefers to lead the US team when it’s a home game. The GOAT as skipper in a continental competition on home turf: This would likely explode the fan hype golf has ever seen in the USA.
Anyway, it would be Woods’ second refusal, after already declining for 2025 at Bethpage Black. This famously led to the appointment of Keegan Bradley, who since Medinah 2012’s defeat and exclusion for Rome 2023 carries a third trauma. However, it would be an understandable decision by Tiger. Why give up the home advantage – although statistically it effectively does not exist – and risk tarnishing his sporting reputation in an away command mission whose chances are really slim? Americans last won in Europe in 1993 at The Belfry in England.
Moreover, his opponent at Adare Manor could be Luke Donald, who has outsmarted the US skipper twice masterfully. This again puts PGA of America in a dilemma as hardly anyone else suits the team captain role. Hopefully, Keegan Bradley won’t get another chance – Medinah loser Davis Love III did get a second chance in 2016, and that at home. Well, speculation is allowed… The “Fried Egg” team also thought of this:
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