{"id":19905,"date":"2025-06-27T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19905\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:54:09","slug":"padraig-harrington-says-whether-keegan-bradley-can-be-team-usas-playing-captain-as-he-sends-warning-to-team-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19905\/","title":{"rendered":"Padraig Harrington says whether Keegan Bradley can be Team USA’s playing captain as he sends warning to Team Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There\u2019s plenty of debate raging about Keegan Bradley\u2019s Ryder Cup captaincy right now and former European skipper Padraig Harrington has now weighed in on the matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harrington has experience of being captain himself having captained Team Europe in what proved to be a disastrous outing at Whistling Straits in 2021.<\/p>\n

The Irishman was still praised for his role as team head though and through that experience, he\u2019s perfectly qualified to speak on Keegan Bradley\u2019s<\/a> issue.<\/p>\n

Right now, Bradley is one of the best players in the world. After winning The Travelers, the US skipper is now faced with the very realistic possibilty of either being a playing captain, or stepping down.<\/p>\n

And according to Harrington, there is only one possible outcome.<\/p>\n

\"TravelersPhoto by Ben Jared\/PGA TOUR via Getty ImagesPadraig Harrington says whether Keegan Bradley should be Team USA captain <\/p>\n

Harrington has been speaking this week on the Sirius XM PGA Tour radio show and got onto the subject of Bradley being a playing captain.<\/p>\n

And while Harrington warned Europe they\u2019ll not want to play against him, he suggested the American simply cannot do both roles.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeegan is a player that the Europeans don\u2019t want to play against. Everything about him, he\u2019s a really tough competitor,\u201d Harrington said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven his mannerisms, it\u2019s not easy to play against. But even the shot he hit on 18, he\u2019s very ballsy and he hits the shots at the end of the day, so there\u2019s a lot of players you could tee it up against and you wouldn\u2019t choose Keegan as one of them. He\u2019s going to get it done.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously the competition for the US now is he\u2019s captain and should he step down from captain and play. He\u2019s definitely in the best 12 players, without doubt. I don\u2019t think he can be captain and play.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe captaincy of the Ryder Cup is such a big deal. Particularly when you think about Tiger at the Presidents Cup, they\u2019re not the same though. The timings, the pressure, the speed, it\u2019s a much quicker event. I do not think in any way shape or form, a captain can be a player.\u201d<\/p>\n

What other players are saying about Keegan Bradley being a playing captain <\/p>\n

There is going to need to be a decision quickly on this from the USA. It cannot be hanging over them for too long, with the tournament just months away.<\/p>\n

Bryson DeChambeau has said he wants Bradley<\/a> as part of the team but refrained from saying whether the dual role would suit.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Kevin Kisner has spoken of Bradley<\/a> and suggested that in the end, it might come down to personal choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt also comes down to his decision. If he feels he wants a spot on the team then he has to make that call. If he can juggle both roles it\u2019s only up to him so we will see what he thinks, we still have a long way to go and a lot of points at the British Open,\u201d Kisner said recently.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Bradley knows there is a big decision looming here and if he gets it wrong, it could be his lasting legacy as a Team USA player.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s plenty of debate raging about Keegan Bradley\u2019s Ryder Cup captaincy right now and former European skipper Padraig…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,1509,18637,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-19905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-keegan-bradley","10":"tag-padraig-harrington","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114757085774385603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}