the last time the united states won the ryder cup was 2016.
when's the last time the united states won the ryder cup?
2016
following the european victory in the 2014 ryder cup, the pga of america created a "ryder cup task force". the task force consisted of three pga officials and eight players with ryder cup experience. there were three previous ryder cup captains: raymond floyd, tom lehman and davis love iii together with rickie fowler, jim furyk, phil mickelson, steve stricker and tiger woods. the task force considered a number of issues including the selection of the ryder cup captain and vice-captains and the team selection process.
2016 ryder cup
despite his outstanding success on the pga tour, woods had little success in the ryder cup early in his career. in his first ryder cup in 1997, he earned only 1½ points competing in every match and partnering mostly with mark o'meara. costantino rocca defeated woods in his singles match. in 1999, he earned 2 points over every match with a variety of partners. in 2002, he lost both friday matches, but, partnered with davis love iii for both of saturday's matches, won two points for the americans, and was slated to anchor the americans for the singles matches, both squads going into sunday with 8 points. however, after the europeans took an early lead, his match with jesper parnevik was rendered unimportant and they halved the match. in 2004, he was paired with phil mickelson on friday but lost both matches, and only earned one point on saturday. with the americans facing a 5–11 deficit, he won the first singles match, but the team was not able to rally. in 2006, he was paired with jim furyk for all of the pairs matches, and they won two of their four matches. woods won his singles match, one of only three americans to do so that day. woods missed the 2008 ryder cup competition altogether, as he was recovering from reconstructive surgery on his left knee. despite woods' absence, the united states team posted its largest margin of victory in the event since 1981. in 2010, woods had a successful ryder cup going 3–1–0. he played all team matches with steve stricker and defeated francesco molinari 4&3 in his singles match where he made 9 birdies. however, europe won in a very close match, 14.5 to 13.5. in 2012, paired again with stricker, both players struggled going 0–3–0 together for the week. for the first time in his career, woods would sit out a session in the ryder cup. himself and stricker were the only americans who did not have a point going into the sunday singles. in his singles match against francesco molinari, woods was 1 up on the 18th fairway. after seeing martin kaymer clinch the ryder cup for europe, woods conceded the hole after missing his par putt. he would halve the match giving europe the outright victory, and finish his week at 0–3–1. in 2018, woods was initially named a vice-captain by jim furyk. despite only playing half as many events as his peers, woods still finished 11th in the final standings and was subsequently chosen as a captain's pick. paired with patrick reed for the two four-ball sessions, they lost each time to tommy fleetwood and francesco molinari, who went 4–0 together for team europe, with molinari going 5–0 at the event. in his saturday afternoon foursome match, he again lost to the european duo, paired this time with bryson dechambeau. woods would also go on to lose his singles match to jon rahm 2&1 to mark the first time in his career that he lost every match he played in one ryder cup tournament. europe would defeat united states by a score of 17.5 to 10.5. in the 8 ryder cups that woods competed in from 1997 to 2018, he won 14.5 points from a possible 37.
professional golf career of tiger woods