BOCA RATON, Fla. — The golfers are not the only ones endorsing Luke Donald to return as captain of the European Ryder Cup team.
Four former European Ryder Cup captains were in the field at the TimberTech Championship on the Old Course at Broken Sound, one of them, Irishman Padraig Harrington, winning the event.
And all four share the same sentiments of the players who started chanting “two more years” after soundly defeating the United States in Rome, 16½-11½, five weeks ago.
The Europeans were expressing their desire for Donald to return for a second run as captain in 2025, when the Ryder Cup moves back to the U.S. and will be played at Bethpage Black in New York. Donald is showing interest in returning. The decision now is in the hands of the European Ryder Cup committee.
Here is what those who have walked in Donald’s shoes have to say about the 45-year-old returning. Like the Europeans in Rome, the U.S. will have a distinct advantage playing on home soil and in front of what should be an energized crowd.
