Speculation around Tiger as captain, Scheffler injury-free, fun with the DP World Tour and the Kordas. The Back Nine.
At the start of the year, some speculation is allowed. Some disguise it as prediction, a very popular discipline in early January. The colleagues from the renowned US site The Fried Egg have boldly hypothesized for the upcoming golf year: The PGA of America offers Tiger Woods the captaincy role for the 2027 Ryder Cup expedition to 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 at the continental contest on home soil: This would likely surpass all previous fan hype in US golf.
In any case, it would be Woods’ second refusal, after already turning down 2025 at Bethpage Black. This led to the appointment of Keegan Bradley, who since has been carrying the trauma of the 2012 Medinah defeat and non-selection for Rome 2023. It would be an understandable decision by Tiger. Why give up home advantage — although statistically almost non-existent — and risk sportingly tainting his record away, when chances are slim? The US last won in Europe in 1993 at The Belfry, England.
Moreover, his counterpart at Adare Manor could be Luke Donald, who has twice thoroughly outplayed the US skipper. This again puts the PGA of America in a dilemma, as hardly anyone else offers for the team captain job. One hopes Keegan Bradley won’t be called again — Medinah loser Davis Love III did get a second chance in 2016, but that was at home. Well, some speculation is allowed… The \”Fried Egg\” team also came up with other ideas:
McIlroy and Keegan: It’s complicated
An unusual setup: Boston Common has won a match in the Tomorrow’s Golf League for the first time, thanks in part to the putting of Michael Thorbjornsen, substitute for Adam Scott and Hideki Matsuyama. However, last Friday at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, there was