Furyk lets Bradley off the hook for Ryder Cup | Golf News

Jim Furyk is gearing up to serve as United States Ryder Cup captain for 2027, and believes that Keegan Bradley was positioned in a tough place in 2025.

“I think I would say — instead of saying something’s not quite right, I think I would say we could definitely be doing a lot better job,” said Furyk, addressing the U.S. Ryder Cup document as they have not received since 2021.

“I’m pulled in in April to captain the team. We don’t have a point system in place right now. I heard Luke earlier say he’ll put something in place like late summer or mid to late summer or early fall.”

Furyk recommended Bradley’s efforts, noting that he had less than a 12 months and a half to put together for golf’s most prestigious biennial event.

“So I just think we could be better at this is a 12-month process each and every year. It’s not something the Ryder Cup is over,” Furyk added. “We decompress. We let it go for six months. And now we hire and we bring in — we brought Keegan in even later than this last year. He had less than 18 months to prepare. And that’s a guy who never even served as vice captain. So he played a lot of catch-up, if that makes sense.”

Furyk competed in 9 Ryder Cups as a participant, contributing to two United States victories, before being chosen as captain at Adare Manor in 2027 following Tiger Woods’ appointment to the function, which Woods finally turned down due to personal difficulties.

“The idea of more continuity, more continuity for future captains,” said Furyk.

“More continuity for the players year in and year out, and that includes the Presidents Cup in my mind as well. We’ve been carrying that knowledge along under some great captains, under the Davis Loves and the Freddie Couples and the Steve Strickers, and then myself kind of working with those guys.

“We’ve been form of passing that data along, but I just actually really feel prefer it might be in a more organized method.

“I think we could have put Keegan in a much better position last year, and part of my role as a vice captain was to kind of help him along with the experience that I had. But I think that “continuity” is probably the best word I could use.”