Tiger Woods turns down US captaincy at 2025 Ryder Cup

Tiger Woods is believed to have turned down the opportunity to captain USA at next year’s Ryder Cup.

The PGA of America will announce their appointment in New York on Tuesday, with the likes of Stewart Cink, Fred Couples and Davis Love III in the frame for the role.

The 48-year-old raised doubts at the US PGA two months ago that he would succeed Zach Johnson, citing his time-exhaustive involvement in the peace negotiations between the PGA Tour and the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, which bankrolled LIV.

It is understood that Woods was prepared to take on the role if the PGA of America – which oversees the US arm of the biennial dust-up – reduced the normal captaincy commitments ahead of the match. But no deal was evidently reached and with the clock ticking, they were forced to look elsewhere. Europe confirmed that Luke Donald was to serve a second term last December.

Cink, the 2009 Open champion, is the most obvious alternative, but with the match taking place at Bethpage, just 15 minutes from Manhattan, they may have gone elsewhere for what they consider to be a bigger name to harness the support of what us expected to be a raucous home crowd.

More to follow . . .

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