This former Cardi is Mr. Fix-It of the Ryder Cup team (he has been very busy)

The Ryder Cup Team only counts people in uniforms, which are bigger than you think. There are 12 players and 12 players, and the caddie has a captain (veteran Loopet Scott Weill), so that’s 25 years old. The captain and his five assistants can get you to 31. But you absolutely have to count Johnny Wood. Wood was Caddie turned BroadCaster, the United States manager, the first manager of all time. In terms of job opportunities and other aspects, the Ryder Cup is a growth industry. The Ryder Cup yelled in this year’s huge cup, a giant.

On Wednesday night, Wood boarded a nightly JetBlue flight from Sacramento where he lives and arrived at Kennedy International Airport early Thursday morning. He drank a cold coffee, collected his suitcase, and put on Uber the Team Black, the gate officer at Team Room. In his excitement, he tore a series of tapes without a knife. A spell has been running through his mind all the time, a subject he picked from Captain America, Keegan Bradley.

You never know the last time you did something, so do it every second.

John Wood held the twelve Ryder Cups on site, dating back to 2002 as a caddie or broadcaster. Now he has this new show. Will he be at the 2027 Ryder Cup in Ireland? Who can say it? But he would never be happier again after he was at Bethpage Black in the home team’s locker room in the calm before the storm. “There are a lot of great things in golf,” Wood tells you. “Nothing is like the Ryder Cup.”

Wood is one of golf Interesting characters. Before becoming a PGA Tour caddy, he started with a long-term job for Kevin Sutherland, a former manager of Tower Books in Sacramento. He is a forced study man. He and Davis Love sometimes compare notes on the life and times of writer Hunter S. Thompson. Golf may not be more aware of the 1919 black sock gambling scandal than Wood, who visits Buck Weaver’s cemetery whenever Wood is in Chicago, the infamous Chicago White Sox shortstop. Weaver is played by John Cusack in the movie Eight people went out. Great movie, but Wood’s book of the same name has some problems. When they are more like theory, some of these facts are reported as facts.

Wood spent two days hiking and camping in the Sierra Mountains before flying in JetBlue Redeye. It was just wood, alone with a 30-pound backpack (nothing for the former caddies), tents, some REI food and novels Jamesby Percival Everett, a modern representation of Huckleberry Finn, who is Wood’s favorite literary character. His second favorite literary character is Calvin, from the late Calvin and Hobbes cartoon award. A little blonde boy often reads books or says witty words. from Rye’s Catcherforever tired of the “Phonies” in the middle of him. Holden escaped from one of his schools because he was “surrounded by Phonies”.

Before his brief camping trip, Wood was with most of the U.S. Ryder Cup teams in Napa, California. Bradley made his mountaineering comments at a leisure team dinner in a private residence that week. The simple view is that this is Scottie Scheffler’s team, because the team in Tiger’s Prime is Tiger Woods’ team. But Bradley was irritated and excited, and half of the New Yorker was the biggest personality on the American team. Few people disagree.

Seth Waugh, former CEO of the U.S. PGA, was the first to see Bradley as the unlikely captain of the team. But before he even floated Bradley’s name, Waugh asked Wood to be team manager. That was last May, when expecting Tiger Woods would be Captain America for Bespatch, where he won his first U.S. Open. Woods has a relaxing rapport with wood, and their shared interest in baseball is part of it. (Tiger’s father was a college catcher at Kansas State University.) Once, at the 2017 Presidents Cup, Wood asked Wood to take photos of Barack Obama with Caddy. Woods has an obligation – Obama did it, too. Wood has a casual way, but there are also ways that make him easy to fit in caddy yards, TV compounds, and in 20 or so team rooms over the years.

John Wood’s First Order The business upon arrival at Bethpage Black is to check the team room, lockers, lounge chairs, dinner table and the rest. He tore a series of boxes without a knife. (Today, Wood is strong.) He checked in and signed into the team hotel where he would have 11 nights stay.

The player and the caddie are on the same ground. Wood imagines an elevator bank on the team floor where there are two mannequins, playing a kind of sentinel there. One will wear the player uniform of that day, and the caddie uniform of the other day. Yes, there were problems in the past. No, John Wood has no praise for this important innovation. The idea comes from Kelly Ford Cameron, the daughter of longtime Oakmont pro Bob Ford, who worked for Ralph Lauren, the official unified supplier of the 2025 Ryder Cup.

Wood has produced a special little book for every American caddy that reprints the exact language of the Golf Rules 22 Rules, which covers alternative shooters, while Rule 23 covers the best balls. Both forms are used in the first two days of the game. Kerry Haig, who competed in the US PGA at the Ryder Cup, saw Wood’s “cliff” style rulebook Thursday and said, “I did the same for the rules officials.” Great thoughts, etc.

Many of Bethpage’s Wood work will involve logistics and already have it. If the player needs additional umbrellas, shoelaces, tickets, the wood will be there, holding the item in his hand. After arriving in the team locker room on Thursday, Wood was amazed at what he hoped for, its appearance, because of a large public room where everyone was face to face and no one was alone. Wood said that’s really the whole story of the Ryder Cup experience. Win or lose, you wear a uniform. You are on the list.

“Everyone on these teams plays golf or college golf,” Wood said in a phone interview. “Then, you turn to a professional player and you probably won’t play golf again. That’s really what makes these Ryder Cups so special. All of these guys are pulling the same rope.”

Pull the same rope. Physics, tug of war, phrases from sea novels. Now Ryder Cup Golf.

The 2025 Ryder Cup starts on Friday, September 26, shortly after 7:10 a.m. It is a three-day match. Team manager John Wood, the team manager of the United States, got there early.

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