{"id":242137,"date":"2025-09-20T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242137\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:23:09","slug":"inside-keegan-bradleys-journey-from-13-year-old-fan-to-us-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242137\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Keegan Bradley\u2019s journey from 13-year-old fan to US captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, the stars align exactly as they were supposed to all along.<\/p>\n<p>Take Keegan Bradley, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/12\/sports\/us-ryder-cup-players-able-to-shake-off-rust-thanks-to-captain-keegan-bradleys-bonding-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the U.S. Ryder Cup captain<\/a>, as the perfect example. He leads the American team against Europe in the 45th edition of the matches this week at Bethpage Black.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been in Keegan\u2019s soul since he was a little boy,\u201d Bradley\u2019s aunt Pat Bradley \u2014 who won 31 times on the LPGA Tour, including six majors \u2014 told The Post. \u201cKeegan was born for this. He has been on this journey since he was a little boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The defining moment on the journey took place in 1999 at the Country Club in Brookline, where the U.S. Ryder Cup team made the greatest comeback in the event\u2019s history to overtake Europe. Keegan was a 13-year-old propped up on his father Mark\u2019s shoulders, so he could see the golf over the massive crowds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes, the stars align exactly as they were supposed to all along. Take Keegan Bradley, the U.S. Ryder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[29108,1430,1509,8656,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-242137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bethpage-black","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-keegan-bradley","11":"tag-ryder-cup","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-plus","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115238260312130214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242137","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=242137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}