{"id":866153,"date":"2026-04-02T02:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/866153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:40:17","slug":"tiger-woods-turns-down-us-ryder-cup-captaincy-in-2027-pga-of-america-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/866153\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods turns down US Ryder Cup captaincy in 2027, PGA of America says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following last week&#8217;s crash, authorities found two white pills in Woods&#8217; pocket, which were identified as hydrocodone &#8211; an opioid used to treat pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers also reported he appeared &#8220;lethargic and slow&#8221; while &#8220;sweating profusely&#8221; with &#8220;extremely dilated&#8221; pupils, and that his &#8220;normal faculties were impaired&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woods has had multiple surgeries following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-56307346\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serious road accident in 2021<\/a> and has played only a limited schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Florida judge on Wednesday approved Woods&#8217; request to leave the United States to seek treatment at a comprehensive inpatient treatment facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woods&#8217; attorney Douglas Duncan said doctors have recommended an &#8220;intensive, highly individualised and medically integrated programme&#8221; for the golfer, away from the media and public scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Duncan said the urgent level of care Woods needs cannot be safely done within the US, &#8220;as his privacy has been repeatedly compromised&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following last week&#8217;s crash, authorities found two white pills in Woods&#8217; pocket, which were identified as hydrocodone &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-866153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116332804467807654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866153","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=866153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}