After the quality and excitement of the 2023 Ryder Cup, plenty of attention and focus is already being directed towards the 2025 version in the USA. We know the location – Bethpage Black in New York – and it looks like most of the current crop of players will return for another go at each other, but who will lead them?
Given the current landscape of the sport, it is difficult to predict who may lead Europe in particular. The likes of Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood, and Ian Poulter would definitely have been in the conversation before the fall-out involving LIV Golf. Their respective times may still come, though, depending on the details encased in the PGA and DP World Tour’s deal with PIF.
Speaking of LIV, Phil Mickleson should have been given a go at bossing Team USA by now but may be forced to wait even longer or potentially even indefinitely.
But with just a couple of years until the next American showdown takes place, a more stable choice needs to be made in the coming months as the planning begins for both sides.
Let’s take a look at who could be named as captains for the 2025 Ryder Cup.
Brooks Koepka plays a shot on the fourth hole at the 2019 PGA Championship at the Bethpage Black course
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POTENTIAL TEAM USA RYDER CUP CAPTAIN 2025
Tiger Woods
As the GOAT makes his return from injury, a leadership role at the site of his 2002 U.S. Open victory could be the perfect tonic. It would be the one selection that everyone – on both teams – would love to see, too.
Woods was recently seen guiding son Charlie to victory in the 14-15 age division of the Last Chance Regional and would surely revel in the possibility of looking after 12 adopted sons at Bethpage Black.
With a boisterous New York crowd behind them and in tailor-made conditions, it would be tough to look past a Woods-led Team USA in 2025.
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Stewart Cink
One of Zach Johnson’s vice-captains in Rome, the next logical step for the 2009 Open champion would be to assume the high chair on home soil.
Cink is a steady personality who would surely deal well with the extraordinary circumstances of a Ryder Cup, and becoming captain would allow him to exorcise his…
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