CHARLOTTE — On Tuesday, the PGA Tour named Davis Love III captain of the American team for the Presidents Cup in 2022. Quail Hollow Club is the tournament site next year, starting Sept. 22 and ending Sept. 25.
The Presidents Cup is a biennial match play team competition. The top American players face off against the best international players, with the exceptions of Europe and the United Kingdom. Players from Europe and the U.K. compete against the U.S. in alternating years as part of the Ryder Cup, a century-old competition that inspired the creation of the Presidents Cup in 1994.
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The PGA Tour owns the Presidents Cup while a separate sanctioning body, the PGA of America, runs the Ryder Cup. The latter will be played this fall in Wisconsin. When the PGA Tour selected Charlotte in 2015 as a future site, it was for 2021. Covid-19 forced the cancellation of the Ryder Cup last year and the sanctioning bodies agreed in July 2020 to push back their playing dates to 2021 and 2022, respectively.
Love, 56, boasts a résumé laden with individual and team accomplishments. He turned pro in 1985 and, since then, has piled up 21 PGA Tour victories with career earnings of $45.5 million. Love’s wins include the 1997 PGA Championship.
In team play, he has been captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup twice, in 2012 and 2016, as well as an assistant captain for three Presidents Cup teams. He has played in the Presidents Cup six times. What makes him an ideal fit as captain in Charlotte — which has never hosted a Presidents Cup — is that he was born here and played in college at UNC Chapel Hill.
Plus, he lives nearby, at St. Simons Island, Georgia, where he has hosted a PGA Tour event since 2010. Last week, Love spoke to the CBJ in anticipation of the announcement that he will lead the Americans at Quail Hollow.
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