Donald gives opinion on McIlroy serving as Ryder | Golf News

European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald is recent off a triumph at Bethpage Black in New York and understands more than just the fact that Rory McIlroy “loves the Ryder Cup.”

Donald and his squad delivered an excellent efficiency during the opening 4 classes at the Ryder Cup, heading off a U.S. rally on Sunday that got here up just short as Europe claimed the trophy, 15-13, for consecutive titles. Speaking at the DP World India Championship, Donald was questioned about his views on what McIlroy may convey as a potential future captain.

“Well, just the fact that he loves the Ryder Cup more than anything. He made it quite evident that winning an away Ryder Cup would really be the icing on an amazing year that he had this year,” Donald said.

“Yeah, he loves what it represents. You’ve seen the emotion from losing to winning. Anyone that has that passion for a Ryder Cup I think would make a good captain,” said Donald.

McIlroy’s devotion to Europe and the biennial competitors was on full show in New York. He confronted fixed heckling from spectators and fired back at them, initially with phrases and later by jetting back across the Atlantic with the silverware.

During a pre-tournament media session in August, Rory revealed he is already ‘declined’ future probabilities to serve as captain.

“No, I’ve been asked to do that, and I’ve turned it down … The idea of me being a playing captain sometime soon has come up, and I’ve shot it down straight away,” McIlroy said about his aspirations to be a taking part in captain at some point.

But why?

“Because I don’t think you can do it,” McIlroy said.

“I just think the commitments that a captain has the week of – you think about the extra media that a captain has to do, you think about the extra meetings that the captains have to do with the vice captains, with the PGA of America, in Keegan’s case, preparing your speech for the opening ceremony.

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“Just there’s a lot of issues that people do not see that the captain does the week of the Ryder Cup, particularly now that the Ryder Cup has change into so big.

“If you’d have said it 20 years ago, I’d say, yeah, it was probably possible to do, but how big of a spectacle and everything that’s on the line in a Ryder Cup now, I just think it would be a very difficult position to be in. So I just think for those reasons.

“Then the captain is not going to be on the course all day, so actually the captain’s only going to give you the chance to play one session on Friday, one session on Saturday. Would you quite not have a participant that has the flexibleness to go twice if he is taking part in nicely? There’s a lot of different issues that go into it, and that’s why I feel – look, it is just my opinion, but I feel it will just be very troublesome to do.”