Tiger Woods speaks out on Ryder Cup row that left US locker room ‘fractured’
Tiger Woods has disregarded strategies that the USA Ryder Cup staff was fractured by Patrick Cantlay in Rome after experiences circulated suggesting that the American star was sad at not being paid to participate.
Zach Johnson’s staff had arrived on the Marco Simone Golf & Country Club as favourites to retain the trophy after they trounced the Europeans at Whistling Straits in 2021, however Luke Donald’s aspect had different concepts, producing an exceptional exhibition of staff spirit and sensible golf to regain the silverware with a shocking 16.5-11.5 victory.
Rumours about issues within the US camp began to floor after the primary days’ play with the guests trailing 1.5-6.5. World No. 5 Cantlay had been the one participant to compete with out sporting a staff cap and experiences surfaced suggesting that he was refusing to take action in protest at the truth that the PGA of America was not paying the gamers to characterize America within the occasion.
This was denied by Cantlay, who stated the true motive was just because the staff cap didn’t match his head.
However, the report was seized upon by European followers on the second day, who goaded Cantlay by waving their caps at him as he walked up the fairways and sang songs about his financial institution steadiness.
Woods, who returns to motion on the Hero World Challenge as we speak for the primary time in seven months, didn’t participate on this yr’s Ryder Cup in any capability, however when requested by reporters about this perceived unrest within the US camp in Rome, he was fast to play it down.
Woods stated: “Well, what transpired there, it was media, it was just noise. Obviously the fact that everyone now carries a mobile device and that was able to spread. You’re not on home soil, so any time someone — they’re going to try to get in your head and that’s what they tried to do.
“I completely get it. Emotions. We all wish to win. You have a house aspect and an opposing aspect, you are going to get warmth and that is what occurred.”
As is tradition in the competition, players from the United States are not paid for taking part in the Ryder Cup but are instead rewarded with the honour of representing their country. The same rule also applies to the Europeans.
Woods was part of a group of players at the 1999 event in Brookline that complained about not being paid, but when reporters asked him on Wednesday whether players should paid be to participate in the Ryder Cup, he said: “That wasn’t a problem.”