Tiger Woods turns down chance to captain Team USA in 2025, breaks silence on Ryder Cup snob comments
Tiger Woods says he turned down the opportunity to captain Team USA at the 2025 Ryder Cup because he didn’t have the time.
But the 15-time major champion insists he’s ready for the role in the future. Kigan Bradley was called the American captain this week in the 2025 game in New York.
According to the press release, as part of my new features on tours and temporary duty, I thought I could not spend the time of the American team and the necessary players as a captain. “That doesn’t mean I don’t want to captain the team in the future. When I feel like the time is right I will throw my hat in the ring for this committee to make a decision.”
Bradley, the shock captaincy selection was announced on Tuesday. The world number 19 said he told Woods he could play as many matches as he wanted next year.
But Bradley insisted he had not yet spoken to the 48-year-old about becoming vice-captain, as the U.S. seeks revenge for last year’s loss in Rome.
Woods has played in eight Ryder Cups, with his debut coming back in 1997. He last appeared as a player in 2018. The 48-year-old was a vice captain at Hazeltine in 2016 and Woods had held talks with the PGA of America about succeeding Zach Johnson next September.
He previously captained the United States to victory in the 2019 Presidents Cup but failed to reach a deal over next year\’s showdown with Europe at Bethpage Black. Europe announced last November that Luke Donald, who led Rory McIlroy and teammates to a 16.5-11.5 victory in Rome, would return as captain.
Woods expressed doubts about his willingness to return to the role in May, citing his involvement in negotiations between the PGA Tour and the Saudi PIF. Europe confirmed in December that Luke Donald would return to the second phase.
The 48 -year -old football player was in the center in a growing negotiations, but stated the night before the PGA championship in May: If you can’t do this, I don’t want to play the role of the captain. \ ‘
He added as follows: “Team USA and American PGA, players, and fans need to feel that he can give a suitable time.”
At that time, the Committee of PGA Seth in the United States said that the committee respected other obligations.
\ ‘We had a conversation for several months -he revealed. “We’ve also had conversations with the Ryder Cup committee, conversations about potential captains and a list of potential captains. Tiger, that was pretty clear. We all know that it can be very concentrated, and this is one of many superpower -this ability to solve this ability.
And he doesn’t do anything completely committed, and we respect it completely. And he’s got a lot of work to do right now. He’s obviously been very active with PGA Tour stuff.
