adminMINNESOTA. — Tiger Woods will be a “huge advantage” to the USA Ryder Cup golf team at this week’s event in Minnesota, according to fellow vice captain Tom Lehman.
The 14-time major winner has won just one of his six Ryder Cups as a player.
But Lehman said: “There is no peer when it comes to breaking down and attacking a course. He has a level of strategic analysis that nobody else can match.”
Europe vice-captain Padraig Harrington said some of their players could find the presence of Woods “off putting”.
However, Harrington, who was on the winning side in four of his six appearances as a player in the biennial competition, said that the impact of Woods at Hazeltine could go both ways.
“I don’t think we’d be sending our own team out, especially the rookies, and not making it clear in their head that Tiger could be stood there watching the tee shots,” he said. — BBC Sport.
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