JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Two days after the 44th Ryder Cup was concluded in Rome, details for another international match-play event were unveiled at a news conference on Tuesday at the Timuquana Country Club, the site of this week’s PGA Tour Champions Constellation Furyk & Friends.
World Golf Hall of Fame member Ernie Els called the new event, “a different animal.”
That it is — just not the 800-pound gorilla that is the Ryder Cup.
The World Champions Cup, combining international, U.S. and European teams, will be Dec. 7-10 at The Concession in Bradenton, Florida — a course that was co-designed by Jack Nicklaus and Tony Jacklin and named for Nicklaus’ gesture to Jacklin in conceding a putt at the 1969 Ryder Cup that resulted in the first-ever tie in the competition.
The players on the six-man teams will be drawn from the PGA Tour Champions, which is co-sanctioning the event.
Jim Furyk, the 2018 Ryder Cup and 2024 U.S. Presidents Cup captain, will lead Team America, Els, the World Golf Hall of Fame member from South Africa will captain Team International and Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland, the 2016 European Ryder Cup captain, will lead Team Europe.
Stricker, Singh among those added
All will be playing captains and two other members have been named to each team: Defending Furyk & Friends champion Steve Stricker and David Toms for the U.S.; Els’ fellow World Golf Hall of Fame members Vijay Singh and Retief Goosen; and two other Hall of Fame members for Europe, Bernhard Langer and Colin Montgomerie.
Three more players will be picked on each team, one each from the final Charles Schwab Cup points list and two chairman’s selections by seven-time PGA Tour winner and TV golf analyst Peter Jacobsen.
TV coverage will be on ESPN and ABC. The tournament is managed by the Chicago-based Intersport, which also runs the PGA Tour’s Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit, along with a dozen other televised sports properties such as the Under Armour High School All-American football game and the College Slam Dunk and Three-Point Contest.
Jason Langwell, executive vice-president of Intersport and the World Champions Cup executive director, took note of the fact that every captain and eight of the nine players selected so far are major champions, with five members of the Hall of Fame.
“Our ambitious vision … being to become the fourth global team major in golf, joining the Presidents Cup, the Ryder Cup and the Solheim Cup as a legacy event in the game…
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