{"id":378507,"date":"2025-08-27T20:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378507\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T20:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:25:11","slug":"the-hosts-are-much-stronger-without-that-headache-steve-palmers-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378507\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The hosts are much stronger without that headache&#8217; \u2013 Steve Palmer&#8217;s view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"Text__0__GlideArticleBody\">Keegan Bradley resisted the temptation to pick himself as a Ryder Cup wildcard, opting for six others in a Wednesday media conference and fully committing to the role of American captain.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__1__GlideArticleBody\">Speculation had been rife for months that Bradley was going to select himself for a third Ryder Cup appearance as a player, with that theory strengthened when he won the Travelers Championship on the PGA Tour at the end of June.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__2__GlideArticleBody\">Bradley, though, explained to assembled reporters at the PGA of America&#8217;s headquarters in Frisco, Texas, that the form showed by others in recent weeks forced his hand. Instead of ending an 11-year wait for another Ryder Cup as a player, Bradley abandoned the idea of combining roles, picking Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Ben Griffin, Cameron Young, Patrick Cantlay and Sam Burns as wildcards.<\/p>\n<p>Access premium tipping<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb0b4133-2 cgVXXE\">View daily premium tips from the Racing Post\u2019s foremost experts, including the likes of Tom Segal, Paul Kealy and more<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to unlock<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sc-eb0b4133-5 hJkQDn\">\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Racing Post digital newspaper (worth over \u00a3100 per month)<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Award-winning journalism from the best writers in racing<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Expert tips from the likes of Tom Segal and Paul Kealy<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Replays and results analysis from all UK and Irish racecourses<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Form study tools including the Pro Card and Horse Tracker<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Extensive archive of statistics covering horses, trainers, jockeys, owners, pedigree and sales data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/subscriptions\/\" data-testid=\"Link__Subscribe\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-7 yLNHi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__Login\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-8 gRoJBC\">Already a subscriber?<a data-testid=\"Link__Login\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/api\/auth\/login\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__PublishedDate\" data-article-publish-date-string=\"Published on 27 August 2025\" data-article-publish-date=\"27 August 2025\" class=\"sc-baabe586-8 isYWMR\">Published on 27 August 2025in<a data-testid=\"Link__PrimaryTaxonomy\" data-article-primary-taxonomy=\"Ryder Cup\" class=\"sc-baabe586-10 fCsTLE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/sport\/golf-tips\/ryder-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryder Cup<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__UpdatedDate\" data-article-update-date-string=\"Last updated 17:41, 27 August 2025\" data-article-update-date=\"17:41, 27 August 2025\" class=\"sc-baabe586-8 isYWMR\">Last updated 17:41, 27 August 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keegan Bradley resisted the temptation to pick himself as a Ryder Cup wildcard, opting for six others in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-378507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115102608686547085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}