Woods on Ryder Cup task force: Hopefully, we only do this once

The path to future American Ryder Cup dominance starts getting paved next week, when the PGA of America-commissioned, 11-man Ryder Cup task force meets for the first time.

Golf Channel reports the kickoff meeting was originally planned for this week at the Tiger Woods-hosted Hero World Challenge. Instead, it’ll begin with a conference call in the days after the Isleworth event ends.

Woods is among the 11 on the committee that has been tasked with auditing everything the PGA of America does in the Ryder Cup process, from the selection of a captain, to wild-card picks, to how the team travels and works together the week of the biennial event. He was asked in a Tuesday news conference about the task force, and Woods succinctly established its true mission statement.

“If we do our job correctly, we are only going to have this once,” Woods said.

Woods is in the unique position of being a likely player for the ’16 squad at Hazeltine that didn’t experience Tom Watson’s largely panned captaincy firsthand, particularly the leaked team meetings that seemed to show a disgruntled, unappreciative captain souring on his charges before the final verdict had been reached.

However, when asked for his reaction to what he heard second-hand unfolded in the Gleneagles team room, Woods showed support for Phil Mickelson and his view on how it happened.

“I was getting it secondary. I wasn’t there to experience it, and see it, feel it,” Woods said. “But a lot of the guys just weren’t happy with it.”

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