Furyk Says It Would Be 'Great' if Reed Makes His Ryder Cup Team, Eight Years After the Paris Fallout

The captain Patrick Reed publicly blamed for the worst week of his Ryder Cup life has just invited him back. Jim Furyk, leading the United States again at Adare Manor in 2027, said on Tuesday that it would be great if Reed is among his 12 players next September, eight years after Reed used a New York Times interview to attack Furyk’s captaincy in Paris, the Associated Press reports. No active feud in golf has waited longer for a first move.

What did Furyk actually say at Adare Manor?

Speaking alongside European captain Luke Donald at the one-year-out launch, Furyk said the United States will put its best 12 players on the team, that if Reed is one of them that is great, and that it has been a long time since Reed was in the US team room, the Associated Press reports. He also conceded the unfinished business directly: the two men still have to talk, and that conversation is still to come, talkSPORT reports.

It is a carefully limited offer. Furyk promised Reed nothing except a fair race, but a fair race is precisely what Reed has not had since 2018. Fans planning to be there can check Ryder Cup 2027 tickets and prices while they wait to see whether he makes it.

Why was Reed frozen out for eight years?

Because Paris ended in public. After Europe’s 17.5-10.5 win at Le Golf National, Reed told The New York Times he should have been paired with Jordan Spieth, his successful 2016 partner, and that benching him twice was not smart for a player with his Ryder Cup record, the Associated Press reports. Furyk had sat him for both foursomes sessions and paired him with Tiger Woods in the fourballs, which they lost twice.

Successors kept the freeze. Stricker left Reed out in 2021, and he was not seriously considered in 2023 or 2025 despite top-five Masters finishes in both years. His last US team room was the 2019 Presidents Cup, where he was heckled a week after a penalty for improving his lie in the Bahamas, the Associated Press reports. Reed’s career record still sits high on the list of most Ryder Cup points scorers relative to his appearances, which is exactly why the exile always looked personal as much as golfing.

What has changed to make Reed pickable again?

His address. Reed was among LIV Golf’s first defectors in 2022, but he chose not to renew his contract this year, leads the European tour points list, and has assured himself a PGA Tour return in 2027, the Associated Press reports. He is ranked No. 29 in the world, close enough to the top 30 to reach signature events. He is, in other words, travelling the same road back that Joaquin Niemann has been weighing publicly, except Reed has already taken it, while the league he left fights for its future in the LIV bankruptcy case.

Furyk has also rebuilt the doorway. Qualifying points do not start until the 2027 season, so Reed’s European tour form this year counts for nothing except momentum: he has to earn his place in the same window as everyone else, through six automatic spots or one of six captain’s picks for the September 17-19 matches, the Associated Press reports.

Why would Furyk want the headache?

Because his real problem is bigger than Reed. The Americans have been outscored 26-8 in foursomes across the last two Ryder Cups and Presidents Cups, 13-3 by Europe in the Ryder Cup alone, and blanked in three sessions, the Associated Press reports. Furyk promised changes to pairings and preparation, including getting prospective players to Adare Manor next summer around the Scottish and British Opens.

A captain staring at numbers like that cannot afford to blacklist one of the few Americans with a winning match-play temperament, however difficult the history. Donald, bidding to become the first captain to win three Ryder Cups, said he has zero complacency about US strength, the Associated Press reports.

What has to happen next for Reed to actually make it?

Three things, in order. The conversation with Furyk has to happen, and Furyk has put it on the record that it will. Reed then has to hold his world ranking near the top 30 into 2027 to reach the signature events where points are richest. And he has to convert a season of European tour form into points once the US qualifying window opens, against a deeper American pool than the one he faced in 2018. The door, for the first time in eight years, is open. Walking through it is still entirely Reed’s problem.

Europe has its own returning-name story this week: Sergio Garcia has told Luke Donald he will do everything to make the 2027 team, as a player if he can regain his DP World Tour membership, or as a vice-captain if he cannot.