During the Presidents cup last week, Tiger Woods allegedly expressed interest in becoming an assistant captain at Hazeltine National Golf Club.
As Golf Digest says:
“[Woods] was talking about all the things he thought we needed to do, and he had a lot of ideas …”
Love said the next task for him is naming assistant captains. Woods is a candidate, among many, if he doesn’t qualify for the U.S. team. “But we’re not waiting around for that. We’ve already been doing a lot of planning,” Love said. “And Tiger is just as interested as the rest of us to get going.”
So, to put it simply, in case he doesn’t make the team next year, Tigers wants to be an assistant captain. This is probably a great idea, but according to Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee, not so much.
Chamblee said that Tiger, along with Phil Mickelson, doesn’t ‘deserve’ the role because:
“I don’t really think it’s appropriate to give players leadership roles in an event they didn’t show interest or passion for when they were competitors.”
Given the fact Chamblee generally rips Tiger whenever he can, this is hardly surprising. When it comes to Tiger specifically, he said that Woods doesn’t deserve to be a captain because he “didn’t show interest or passion in the competition earlier in his career. “
We haven’t forgotten Tiger was an integral part of the U.S. team’s historic comeback in 1999, and the fact Woods was idolized by the players he would potentially be a captain to, we say, if Tiger wants the job, Tiger should get the job.
(via USA Today)
