"Badass" Tiger Woods will play Ryder Cup, says Brandel Chamblee
Woods has an "80% chance" of playing in the 2018 US Ryder Cup team - would you agree?
Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee believes Tiger Woods has an 80% chance of playing in Jim Furyk's United States Ryder Cup side from September 28-30 at Le Golf National, Paris.
Woods, who was recently picked as one of Furyk's vice-captains for the biennial clash against Europe, performed admirably at the Honda Classic last week en route to a solo 12th position on level-par at PGA National.
The 42-year-old American's seemingly radical improvements on the course and new bill of health have transformed the opinions of many critics, especially that of Chamblee who now believes Woods will pull double as a player and vice-captain at the Ryder Cup.
-- Brandel Chamblee
After some discussion about other emerging leaders in the US team room and the strength of the new-look European side, Chamblee was prodded to provide the percentage chance that Woods does wind up playing in Paris...
If the Ryder Cup were played next week, he’d get picked based upon what he did at the Honda, based upon who he is and what he did at – if he had yucked it around like he did at Farmers at Honda and finished [23rd like he did at Torrey], he wouldn’t have got picked.
But he looked... he looked like a badass at Honda. He looked like 'Tiger Woods: Badass.' And with the exception of Sam Burns, nobody really played particularly well when they were playing with him.
So I think he’d get picked. There’s only eight that are going to make the team. They’re going to have four picks. There is nobody that is going to say, ‘Hey, let’s not pick Tiger Woods.’
And the only reason [I didn’t say 100 percent] is because there’s a 20 percent chance that something happens to him physically, I would say. Who knows? There were times where he looked a little fragile to me, bending over to tee a ball up. He didn’t look 22 years old when he was teeing his golf ball up. Now, he looked 22 years old when he was swinging at it. But he didn’t look 22 years old when he was teeing the ball up.
Listen to the rest of the Golf Channel podcast with Chamblee here...
