Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson have been a part of the primary Ryder Cup committee that got here out of the duty drive following the notorious 2014 matches. Woods has been among the many three gamers on the six-member committee ever since as a part of a veteran crew.
Now the committee goes youthful.
Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas have been added to the committee that features PGA of America president Jim Richerson, vice chairman John Lindert and CEO Seth Waugh.
Thomas, who has performed on the previous two groups, mentioned he was shocked to be approached and thought of it an honor.
“I really feel prefer it’s vital to me,” he mentioned. “I hope to be enjoying the Ryder Cup the following 20 years. At the very least if I am not enjoying, which I hope to be, I wish to be a part of it one way or the other to assist us win.”
Spieth has performed each Ryder Cup since Gleneagles in 2014.
“Very excited,” Spieth mentioned. “The job is especially extra serving to to select the captain, discuss in regards to the gamers’ expertise on and off the golf course, how it may be improved, what frees us as much as play our greatest golf. It was good having the final Ryder Cup, being on the aspect of realizing what was profitable. I believe I can present helpful enter having been on 4 groups.”
Spieth mentioned the primary assembly was two weeks in the past through the AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am.
“A whole lot of them have been asking inquiries to me and Justin,” he mentioned. “The cool half about it was the questions they requested of us, and we have been blatantly trustworthy, from garments we have been carrying to ceremonies to what number of dinners we’re doing, what sort of restoration instruments and strategies we had and entry to that. It was a superb begin.”
The PGA Tour may also be listening to some new voices as Webb Simpson and Peter Malnati have been voted co-chairs of the Gamers Advisory Council, which advises and consults the PGA Tour board of administrators on tour points.
They have been elected over Patrick Cantlay and Billy Horschel, and they’ll be a part of the board subsequent yr to serve three-year phrases.
“I really feel like these are vital occasions on the tour and I care rather a lot in regards to the path of the tour,” Malnati mentioned. “We’re making choices which might be affecting the path of the PGA Tour for many years. I wish to have a seat in that room. I used to be thrilled that sufficient of my friends needed me to be there as effectively.”
Info from The Related Press was used on this report.
