

We’re going to learn, obviously, from the past and things that have happened. This team is very much focused on where their feet are. “What’s happened in the past is the past. It’s just a great opportunity,” Johnson said. “That’s exactly the way we’re looking at it. Rome presents a chance to break that trend. routed Europe at home in Whistling Straits two years ago, the Americans haven’t won the Ryder Cup on European soil in three decades. But he broke bones in his right leg and ankle in a February 2021 car crash. Woods was a player on eight Ryder Cup teams and a vice captain in 2018. He wishes he could be here, but it’s just not in the cards for him physically. (We’re) going to utilize his wisdom and he’s passionate about (the Ryder Cup). He is very much in the know as to what we’re trying to do.

“He is, for lack of a better term, on call with us. “Tiger is very much a part of Team USA and has been for years,” Johnson said. There’ll be another unofficial vice captain back home: Tiger Woods. Steve Stricker, Davis Love III, Jim Furyk, Fred Couples and Stewart Cink are Johnson’s five vice captains. So the guys are excited about the competition,” Johnson added. It’s a great test and it’s a really, really good match-play golf course. The putting greens were very good, very true, very nice. That was the other nugget that we talked about a lot. “The common sentiments that I heard on the golf course was they really liked it, which is awesome, and I knew they would because Marco Simone is very, very good,” said Johnson, who saw the course for the first time last year.
