Tiger Woods role at Ryder Cup after deciding | Golf News

It’s claimed Tiger Woods has been offering steering to Team USA captain Keegan Bradley, as preparations intensify for the upcoming battle with Team Europe at Bethpage Black.

Woods was in competition for the captaincy role for the forty fifth Ryder Cup, but his busy schedule resulted in Bradley’s choice last 12 months. Bradley, who loved a stellar 12 months, was also rumored to probably develop into the first captain to compete in the Ryder Cup since Arnold Palmer if he had chosen himself.

Nevertheless, Bradley opted against it and just lately revealed his six captain’s alternatives: Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Ben Griffin, Cameron Young, Patrick Cantlay, and Sam Burns, notably excluding the likes of Brooks Koepka and Jordan Spieth.

These six will staff up with Team USA’s six automated qualifiers, that includes World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, J.J. Spaun, Xander Schauffele, Russell Henley, Harris English, and LIV Golf’s Bryson DeChambeau.

At 39, Bradley also stands as the youngest Ryder Cup captain since Palmer, who was 34 when he served as a taking part in captain back in 1963.

Bradley has been looking for advice from the long-lasting Woods, who believes Bradley is “a brilliant choice” for the place, in advance of the showdown at Bethpage Black in New York.

“He’s [Woods] being consulted [by Bradley],” a US Ryder Cup staff source told Golf.com. “And I know he feels like he’s a part of Keegan’s decisions and how he’s thinking about it, and Keegan has been hugely respectful of that.

“Without giving [Woods] an outsized role, I feel it has been balanced and variety of acceptable. He’s been type of an casual advisor or Dutch uncle.”

Following Bradley’s recent press conference, where he unveiled his captain’s picks, Woods sent a text to a source close to the US team praising the 39-year-old’s handling of the media. The source disclosed: “The gist of the message: ‘Our boy just crushed it. That was an wonderful presser.'”

Bradley also recently admitted that while he was personally gutted not to be competing in the Ryder Cup, he chose not to for the benefit of the team. “It’s a actually unusual factor to variety of ponder,” Bradley said at the recent Tour Championship.

“Making the picks and considering of selecting your self is ridiculous, it would not appear to be actuality sometimes.”

He added: “I grew up wanting to play Ryder Cups. I wished to battle alongside these guys. It broke my coronary heart not to play, it actually did. But I used to be chosen to be the captain of this staff. And my final objective is to be the best captain I might be. This is how I feel I can do that.

“I was always going to do what was best for this team, even if that meant playing. I would have done it. But these guys played incredibly coming down the stretch. And they made my decision easier.”