PGA Tour and Presidents Cup officers introduced Tuesday that Jim Furyk has been chosen as captain for the USA on the 2024 Presidents Cup. Furyk can be tasked with taking the U.S. facet on the highway in September 2024 to The Royal Montreal Golf Membership in Montreal because the People hope to keep up their immaculate 12-1-1 report on this competitors towards a world facet captained by Canadian Mike Weir.Â
“Being chosen by my friends to tackle the function as captain of the U.S. Staff for the 2024 Presidents Cup is actually an honor that I’m humbled and excited to just accept,” Furyk mentioned in an announcement. “Over the span of a number of a long time this occasion has developed tremendously into the worldwide showcase it’s as we speak, and I’m thrilled to assist proceed that momentum. So many legendary captains have come earlier than me, so now to be right here because the 2024 U.S. Staff Captain is kind of outstanding.”
Furyk can be no stranger to this management function as he served as an assistant captain in 2015 and 2017 earlier than taking over the top function on the 2018 Ryder Cup. Main the U.S. to a 17.5 to 10.5 defeat by the hands of the Europeans at Le Golf Nationwide outdoors Paris, the soon-to-be 53-year-old will hope for higher ends in Canada.
The previous U.S. Open champion is simply the tenth captain for the American facet in Presidents Cup historical past becoming a member of the likes of Davis Love III, Jack Nicklaus, Steve Stricker, Fred {Couples}, Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods.
Whereas the U.S. is coming off a 17.5 to 12.5 victory this previous fall at Quail Hole Membership, it did endure some sudden turbulence the final time the Presidents Cup was hosted by the Worldwide facet. Led by taking part in captain Woods, the U.S. squeaked by the Internationals 16 to 14 at Royal Melbourne in 2019, practically dropping to the Internationals for under the second time ever and first since 1998.
The following step for Furyk can be to establish his assistant captains — a job he understands the significance of given his previous expertise in each the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup.
“The workers that you simply convey on, the gamers you convey on as vice captains are going to be key for you [the captain] — the eyes, the ears that you’ve on the golf course,” Furyk instructed CBS Sports activities HQ in January. “Being a vice captain within the Ryder Cup, you are intimately concerned with a bunch. You normally have a bunch of fellows, 4 guys you are concerned with, you are out on the golf course following each single shot of a match for each session and you are the captain’s eyes and ears.
“The captain turns into extra just like the CEO; he would not see plenty of golf. It’s important to rely, you need to rely — the parents on TV are watching each shot, or plenty of them. The captain himself sees very, very, little or no golf, mainly par 3s … so you actually need to depend on your workers and the parents you convey on the market.”