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For those visiting Bethpage Park (Black) course there is a warning sign on the first tee advising it is an ‘extremely difficult’ golf course. That’s not the only thing that is extremely difficult as newly-appointed double European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald and many of his team heading to New York in late 2025 are already aware. There have been two recent major championships hosted at Bethpage Park (Black) – 2009 US Open and 2019 PGA Championship – and among a few ...

Luke Donald has elected to remain as European Ryder Cup captain by agreeing to lead his side into competition at the 44th hosting of the competition in 2025 at Bethpage Park in New York. There were loud calls of ‘two more years, two more years, from his dozen Rome winning golfing gladiators soon after Europe’s comfortable five-point victory over the visiting Americans. And now, after discussions between his family, fellow players and the European Tour, Donald has agreed to stay on. It ...

Two months ago, Viktor Hovland and Collin Morikawa were Ryder Cup rivals in Rome However for the past two years, the Norwegian and the American have been sharing a house within the exclusive Albany resort in The Bahamas. Their house-sharing the last two years also ended with Hovland being handed the ‘Tiger’ trophy by tournament host, Tiger Woods and winning back-to-back matches also matched the effort by Woods in 2006 and ’07. Though in the 23-year history of the event no-one ...

“That can’t happen again”. Tiger Woods final four words in what is a 4,700 word, 10-page transcript following his pre-Hero World Challenge news conference at the Albany club in the Bahamas. It was Woods’ first formal meet with the golfing media since last April’s Masters, and with Woods being asked some 40 questions, and double the number than the norm, ranging from the following: TIGER’S DEFIANT FOUR LAST WORDS …. TWs @TigerWoods @TWlegion four final words ...

Tiger Woods sat behind the microphone at a PGA Tour sanctioned event for a first occasion since April’s Masters however he wasted little time side-stepping any talk of taking over the captaincy reins of the USA 2025 Ryder Cup team. No sooner had the American side lost convincingly at this year’s 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome and Woods’ name was being strongly suggested as the replacement for the hapless Zach Johnson. Woods served as a vice captain at the 2018 Ryder Cup in Paris and was ...

Tiger Woods tees-up in this week’s Hero World Challenge ending a near seven-month absence from the game, and indicating that given a long history of personal injury that any future playing schedule would amount to one tournament per month. This week’s 20-player and now increased $4.5m field will be only Woods’ third event this year and his first since withdrawing due to injury following making the halfway cut at The Masters. In fact, Woods is also teeing-up in what will be just ...

Tiger Woods admits the immediate future for golf remains ‘murky’ and there is ‘moving parts’ before an agreement is reached with golf’s warring parties. After near seven-month Woods is returning to formal competition at this week’s Hero World Challenge, and in what is virtually a ‘Take 2’ attempt to contest the 20-only event on the Albany course in The Bahamas. A year ago, Woods was due to tee-up but limped into the media centre to advise it would not ...