Nassau, Bahamas …

Tiger Woods has ruled accepting the role of USA Ryder Cup Captain by stating:  “Until my career is almost done’.

If that is the case, and if Woods remains healthy, it would seem we won’t see lead a USA Team at the earliest until 2022 in Rome when Woods would be aged 46 or maybe more appropriately in 2024 when the event will be staged at Bethpage Park on Long Island.

“I would love to honoured being selected as a Ryder Cup captain but I know it won’t be for a while as in 2018 I am targeting being a playing assistant captain,” he said ahead of this week’s Hero Challenge.

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“I was hoping for that role this year but it didn’t quite work out that way.

“So yes, ultimately I would love to become a Ryder Cup Captain but I am conscious of the one piece of advice I have gotten from every captain I have spoken to, and that’s don’t become captain until to your career is almost done or is done.

“It’s two years of sacrifice of your life and you have so many obligations and that takes away from you competing and you game is certain to take a dip.

“So everyone I have spoken to has said to me wait as long as you can before you do it, and make sure you’re done playing.

“But we will just have to wait and see as I don’t know what my back is going to be doing but would I like to play a full schedule for the next decade plus?  Yes, I would as that would be great.

“Can I?  I don’t know and we’ll see.

“The thing is that this is fun for me to do. I miss the camaraderie and what some still don’t understand I love to compete, I love to playing against these guys and I love being out here.”