The PGA of America is going back to a loyal soldier to captain the U.S. Ryder Cup team Sept. 17-19, 2027 at Adare Manor in Ireland.
Jacksonville resident Jim Furyk will be named to guide the U.S. team, according to a report on April 24 in Golfweek, a USA Today Co., affiliate. Furyk captained the team in France in 2018, where it lost to Europe 17.5-10.5. He has been a vice-captain four times, in 2016, 2021, 2023 and 2025, and led the U.S. Presidents Cup to victory in 2024 in Montreal.
Attempts to reach Furyk for comment were unsuccessful.
Tiger Woods was considered the front-runner for the 2027 captaincy but is currently in rehabilitation after a car accident and subsequent charges for DUI in March.
As a player, Furyk competed in nine Ryder Cups in a row from 1997 to 2014. He won 17 PGA Tour events, highlighted by the 2003 U.S. Open.
The PGA issued a statement to Golfweek that said, "We will share details regarding the Ryder Cup Captain announcement as soon as we can.”
If Furyk is the selection, he may have to work with European captain Luke Donald to cool emotions that boiled over into the extreme last year at Bethpage State Park, when U.S. fans were verbally abusive to European players and their wives, with one throwing a can of beer at Rory McIlroy’s American-born wife Erica Stoll.
Europe won the Ryder Cup on American soil for the first time since 2012.
The PGA last asked a captain to serve twice in 2016, when Davis Love III of St. Simons Island, Ga., led the U.S. to a 17-11 victory at Hazeltine National in Chaska, Minn. Love was the captain in 2012 at Medinah when Europe rallied to win 15-13.
Tom Watson was the 2014 captain, 21 years after he served in the role in 1993.
Arnold Palmer (1963, 1975) and Sam Snead (1951, 1959) were also two-time captains. Ben Hogan was the captain three times (1947, 1949, 1967) and Walter Hagen holds the record by captaining the U.S. team for the first six Ryder Cups, between 1927 and 1937.
Furyk is the host of the PGA Tour Champions Constellation Furyk & Friends, which moves this year from the Timuquana Country Club to Ocean Hammock in Palm Coast.
Injuries have kept Furyk from competing on the Champions Tour full-time since he won three times in his first two years, including the 2021 U.S. Senior Open.
Furyk also has worked for Golf Channel at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, The Players Championship and the Masters
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Jim Furyk will be 2027 U.S. Ryder Cup captain, according to Golfweek