Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\nFuryk, 55, has plenty of Ryder Cup experience, playing nine times, serving as a vice-captain in four, including for Bradley last year, and his one stint as captain. He\u2019s also a wily veteran of the Presidents Cup and was the winning captain in 2024 in Montreal. Bradley was duly impressed the way Furyk stayed the course despite the U.S. getting swept in all five match on the second day of the Presidents Cup to tie things at 5.<\/p>\n
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“When we lost that day 0-5, it was pretty shocking,” Bradley said. “And he was just the same captain he was the day before. I think that’s what makes Jim great is there’s no ups and downs.”<\/p>\n
The U.S. recovered for an 18\u00bd -11\u00bd\u00a0\u00a0victory.<\/p>\n
Other candidates for the captaincy included Stewart Cink and Justin Leonard. Furyk, who has been either a player, captain or assistant on every Cup since 1997, was a safe pick for a team that hasn\u2019t won on foreign soil since 1993.<\/p>\n
\u201cJim has the respect of the guys and he\u2019s been around all of us. \u2026 he\u2019s been involved in like 15 in a row,\u201d said Bradley. \u201cHe was the captain at the Presidents Cup and he\u2019s been part of the system and I think he brings a lot of experience, learned a lot over the years and, in fact, somebody that we all really look up to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bradley used the word \u201csteady\u201d to describe what he liked about Furyk\u2019s style as captain at the 2024 Presidents Cup, where Furyk made him a captain’s pick.<\/p>\n
“He’s not gonna get up and give you speeches getting the guys fired up and all that,\u201d Bradley said. \u201cJim, he’s himself. And I think that I really liked that.”<\/p>\n
Bradley was quick to point out that he was never seriously under consideration for the job this time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that having somebody that was close to making the team isn\u2019t really what the position is about,\u201d said Bradley, who threatened to earn his way on the team, including winning the Travelers Championship in June. \u201cI don\u2019t know if they totally expected me to be where I sat. I was pretty high ranking in the world [he reached as high as No. 6 in the Official World Ranking]. I don\u2019t know if they wanted to go through that again. But I think more, they\u2019re willing to go back to the more traditional world.\u201d<\/p>\n
It had been a practice of the U.S. team since the fallout of the U.S. team\u2019s loss in 2014 and the formation of the Task Force for the most recent captain to stay on as a vice captain and help his successor. Bradley, who has yet to be an vice captain, said he would be open to doing just that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
And what about being captain again down the road?<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to have another chance because it\u2019s part of my soul that\u2019s torn out, and I would love to get a chance to revenge that, and I\u2019m happy Jim\u2019s got that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated April 29, 2026, 6:22 p.m. ET DORAL, Fla. \u2013 Keegan Bradley said it\u2019s time for the U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[552,58,59,1643,1644,65,68,69,67,62],"class_list":["post-29107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ryder-cup","tag-ryder-cup","tag-accessfree","tag-sourcegolfweek","tag-sstssportsgolfryder-cup","tag-sstsnthe-ryder-cup","tag-taggolf","tag-taginternational-sports-competitions","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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