{"id":283899,"date":"2025-07-23T01:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/283899\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T01:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:04:13","slug":"he-wont-be-able-to-talk-tiger-woods-was-stunned-by-unheralded-italian-when-ryder-cup-last-visited-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/283899\/","title":{"rendered":"‘He won’t be able to talk’ – Tiger Woods was stunned by unheralded Italian when Ryder Cup last visited Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiger Woods suffered his first Ryder Cup singles defeat the last time Spain hosted the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The tournament will return to the country for only the second time in 2031.<\/p>\n

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Woods was handed his first Ryder Cup singles defeat at Valderrama in 1997Credit: Getty\"Italian<\/a><\/p>\n

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Italian ace Costantino Rocca stunned the then-Masters champion the last time Spain hostedCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

It comes after the Camiral Resort in Girona was confirmed as the host of the 48th edition of the Ryder Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Woods was a member of Team USA the only previous time the tournament was held in Spain.<\/p>\n

On that occasion, Valderrama played host for the 1997 Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

However, Woods<\/a> suffered a Sunday to forget on his debut appearance despite being the world number two at the time.<\/p>\n

Fresh from winning his first major at the Masters earlier in the year, he ended the event with a 1-3-1 record.<\/p>\n

Of those defeats, one came against Costantino Rocca in the singles.<\/p>\n

The five-time European Tour event winner had been making his third Ryder Cup appearance.<\/p>\n

Despite having a career high world ranking of 18th, Rocca had pedigree at the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

He famously produced only the third hole-in-one in its history two years earlier in 1995.<\/p>\n

Rocca produced more heroics in front of Team Europe captain Seve Ballasteros as he wrapped up a 4&2 win over Woods.<\/p>\n

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Rocca is best known for forcing a dramatic play-off at The Open in 1995Credit: Getty – Contributor\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

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The five-time European Tour event winner achieved a career-high ranking of 18thCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

His victory was sealed on the 16th green after the American conceded the hole and the match.<\/p>\n

The result left Europe on the brink of a second consecutive Ryder Cup, which they would ultimately secure 14 \u00bd-13 \u00bd.<\/p>\n

Reacting to Rocca’s stunning triumph, the commentator exclaimed: “What a day for Costantino Rocca.<\/p>\n

“He will never forget the day he tamed the Tiger.”<\/p>\n

As the Italian was approached for an interview, he added: “The interviews start although it will be sometime before he can probably talk.”<\/p>\n

Prior to beating Woods, Rocca was best known for his agonising play-off loss at The Open<\/a> in 1995.<\/p>\n

Upcoming Ryder Cup host venues<\/p>\n

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2025 – Bethpage Black, USA<\/p>\n

2027 – Adare Manor, Ireland<\/p>\n

2029 – Hazeltine, USA<\/p>\n

2031 – Camiral Resort, Spain<\/p>\n

2033 – Olympic Club, USA<\/p>\n

2035 – TBA, Europe<\/p>\n

2037 – Congressional, USA<\/p>\n

He had forced an extra four holes by sinking a remarkable 64-foot putt on the 72nd hole of the week at St. Andrew’s to draw level with John Daly.<\/p>\n

However, Rocca missed out by four strokes in the play-off after a triple bogey on the 17th.<\/p>\n

That would be the closest he would come to winning a major championship in his career.<\/p>\n

Now aged 68, Rocca is a regular on the European Seniors Tour.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Woods has gone on to appear at eight separate Ryder Cups, with the USA winning on just one of those occasions.<\/p>\n

As injuries continue to keep Woods off the course, he is out of contention for this year’s event<\/a> after turning down the chance to serve as captain.<\/p>\n

Golf caddie reveals how he once saved Tiger Woods from a toilet nightmare during the Ryder Cup<\/p>\n

Instead, Keegan Bradley will lead Team USA<\/a> at Bethpage Black in September.<\/p>\n

He will be aiming to regain the Ryder Cup following Europe’s triumph at Marco Simone in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods suffered his first Ryder Cup singles defeat the last time Spain hosted the event. The tournament…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[106441,2826,4321,79,54202,13088,4320,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-283899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-costantino-rocca","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-ryder-cup","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-team-europe","13":"tag-team-usa","14":"tag-tiger-woods","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}