{"id":471353,"date":"2023-11-29T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=471353"},"modified":"2023-11-29T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:22:13","slug":"luke-to-return-as-european-captain-for-ryder-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/luke-to-return-as-european-captain-for-ryder-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke to return as European captain for Ryder Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After leading Europe to a conclusive triumph at the Ryder Cup outside Rome in the past month, Luke Donald will return as captain at Bethpage Black in the Big Apple in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He will be the 1<sup>st<\/sup> repeat captain of Europe since Bernard Gallacher did so in 3 consecutive games from 1991 to 1995.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Two more years, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be an honour to lead this amazing team once again in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s go <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamEurope?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TeamEurope<\/a> \ud83d\udc99<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yBBJHlGfYk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yBBJHlGfYk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Luke Donald (@LukeDonald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LukeDonald\/status\/1729847164480725162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Great chances don&#8217;t come along a lot of times in life, and I&#8217;m a great believer that an opportunity presents itself, you must grab them with both hands &#8212; this is 1 of these moments,&#8221; Donald shared after the news of his captaincy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been lucky as a golfer to have had many fantastic times in the Ryder Cup during the editions, and so to add being a triumphing captain to that, to form bonds with the 12 golfers as we did in Rome and to win the tournament, was an unforgettable experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After leading Europe to a conclusive triumph at the Ryder Cup outside Rome in the past month, Luke Donald will return as captain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":471354,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18544,16770],"news_category":[16713,14084],"gn_keywords":[22210,19663,7308],"acf":{"announce":"Donald will lead the European team in 2025.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471357,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471353\/revisions\/471357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471353"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=471353"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=471353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}