Jim Furyk is set to return to captain Team USA for the 2027 Ryder Cup at Adare Manor in Ireland.
The Associated Press reported on Friday that Furyk, 55, will become one of only four US captains to have led the team on multiple occasions since 1979, when continental Europe was established as a team.
Tiger Woods had been the favourite to take over from Keegan Bradley as the US Team’s captain for the 2027 event, but chose to rule himself out of consideration following his decision to take a break from golf after a car crash in March.
Jim Furyk will become one of only four men to have captained Team USA in the modern Ryder Cup era
As the US Team looks to bounce back after back-to-back defeats in Rome and New York, the PGA of America are set to turn to Furyk, who has plenty of experience both playing and serving as a captain at this tournament.
Furyk has been involved in every US Ryder Cup team for the past 30 years, and captained the team at the 2018 Ryder Cup at Le Golf National in Paris, where his side were beaten 17.5 to 10.5 by their European opponents.
Furyk made his playing debut in 1997 and went on to feature in nine consecutive tournaments, up until 2014, which include two winning sides and seven losing teams.
The 2003 US Open champion has also been a vice-captain in 2016, 2021, 2023 and 2025.
Furyk has previously opened up on why he enjoyed attending the Ryder Cup as the US Team’s captain.
“At the end of the day, I liked being the captain and I liked being the vice captain as well because you just got so involved and got to see so much golf,” Furyk told CBS Sports in 2023.
“I was pulling so hard for those two guys [the captain and vice-captain], but ultimately it was my job to go back to the captain and tell him here’s what I am seeing out there, ‘here’s who’s playing well, here’s who’s not, they would be better fit for this format, that format’.
“I just loved that part of it. I think every captain is surprised at how little golf they actually see during the week. I knew it, I was prepared for it and I was still shocked at how little golf I saw at the end of the week in Paris.”
‘The PGA of America has been left with very few options’
Jim Furyk (left) captained Team USA at the 2018 Ryder Cup, but was beaten by Team Europe and their captain Thomas Bjørn (right)
Sky Sports Golf correspondent Jamie Weir:
“Not a particularly surprising choice. But I don’t think it’s a particularly inspiring choice either. At best, he’s kind of a safe pair of hands.
“Look, let’s be clear about this. The PGA of America had one choice and only one choice for captaincy next year, and that was Tiger Woods. They put all their eggs in the ‘Tiger basket’. When it became evident that Tiger couldn’t be captain for next year, for reasons we don’t need to go into now, they were left scrambling.
“They were left with a choice of maybe a first timer like Webb Simpson, Brandt Snedeker or Stewart Cink – none of them particularly inspiring choices either. They’ve gone with Jim Furyk, who has done the job before. He’s been involved in every single Ryder Cup team since 1997. Nine of them in a row from 1997 to 2014, in a playing capacity and as a vice-captain, 2016, 2021, 2023, and last year at Bethpage.
“He was the losing captain in Paris back in 2018. Alongside Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, he was kind of a symbol of that generation of US golf, where they were always going into Ryder Cups as the favourites. But invariably found themselves on the losing side. Like I said, he played in nine and on only two occasions was he on the losing side.
“They’ve really been left with no choice, the PGA of America, or very few options, I should say. I think it shows as opposed to the European Ryder Cup Team, who have a very clear succession plan in place and it’s all joined-up thinking, the PGA of America are just making it up on the hoof.
“They’ve lurched from Keegan Bradley back to Jim Furyk, who will be 57 years of age by the time the tournament starts next year, so he doesn’t really have that much in common with the younger generation of American golfers, so they have very few options after Tiger ruled himself out. So Jim Furyk again it is next year up against Luke Donald, who is going for three in a row.”
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