{"id":46303,"date":"2025-07-07T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46303\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:35:09","slug":"keegan-bradley-said-to-have-made-a-startling-admission-ahead-of-the-ryder-cup-i-found-that-extraordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46303\/","title":{"rendered":"Keegan Bradley said to have made a ‘startling’ admission ahead of the Ryder Cup, ‘I found that extraordinary’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Keegan Bradley has a very real chance of qualifying for the U.S. Ryder Cup team.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bradley<\/a> was named as the Ryder Cup<\/a> captain last year, but his exceptional form on the PGA Tour<\/a> this season has meant that it looks like he will be playing on his own team.<\/p>\n

Many top American players have already suggested that Bradley should definitely play at the Ryder Cup<\/a>, despite the fact that he will be captaining the team.<\/p>\n

And numerous American golf fans believe the recent appointment of Gary Woodland<\/a> as a vice-captain was a hint from Bradley that he will be acting as a playing captain at the Ryder Cup<\/a> later this year at Bethpage Black<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The upcoming Ryder Cup has the potential to be one of the most exciting yet, if not the most exciting.<\/p>\n

\"KeeganPhoto by Ben Jared\/PGA TOUR via Getty Images<\/p>\n

However, will Bradley really serve the roles of both player AND captain?<\/p>\n

Many believe that could be an impossible task for the 39-year-old from Vermont.<\/p>\n

Keegan Bradley said to have made \u2018startling\u2019 Ryder Cup admission<\/p>\n

Bradley is now ranked inside the top 10 on the U.S. Ryder Cup points list.<\/p>\n

If he finishes the season strongly, he will definitely be playing for Team USA at Bethpage Black later this year.<\/p>\n

Will that be a good thing, or a bad thing though?<\/p>\n

Jamie Weir of Sky Sports in the UK was a guest on the Rex and Lav podcast, and joined in the discussion about Bradley\u2019s current situation.<\/p>\n

Weir was asked whether it is possible to act as a playing captain at the Ryder Cup in this day and age.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not believe he can in this day and age, no. I am sure he would tell you differently.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found it startling that after the Travelers, he came out at that press conference and revealed the fact that Seth Waugh called him up and said we want you to do both.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the first time I had heard him admit that and I was like really why? I just don\u2019t think in this day and age it is possible to do both.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there are so many demands as a captain and so many things you need to A) have in place beforehand, which you can still do I suppose. But B) you need to be thinking of the hoof.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf plan A is not working you need to have a plan B, C and D ready to go and the captain needs to make calls and the captain might be out on the golf course playing Rory McIlroy at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it is very difficult in this day and age. In fact, I think it\u2019s impossible. But he is clearly one of the 12 best American golfers, that is unquestionable.<\/p>\n

\"ThePhoto by Gary Kellner\/PGA of America via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether he still will be come September, who knows. I think he is in a situation now where his duty as a captain is to assemble the best 12 players, so he is letting his team down if he does not pick himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very confusing situation. I don\u2019t really know how they have got into this situation but the one man who will be smiling from ear to ear is the man who has been in his role for three years straight and has all his ducks in a row and has his backroom team assembled, and is probably going to have a very similar looking team to what he did in Rome, and that\u2019s Luke Donald.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo perhaps it\u2019s just what the US need, conversely. Perhaps having this left field choice and having this captain who is such a talismanic figure who pumps his chest and wears that red, white and blue and who it means so much to is exactly what they need on the course.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fascinating to see how this whole thing plays out but I was quite astounded when he admitted in that press conference after the Travelers that this was actually the plan all along. This is what Seth and the PGA of America wanted. I found that extraordinary.\u201c<\/p>\n

Weir does have a point here. If it was indeed the plan all along to have Bradley act as a playing captain, the PGA of America have some serious questions to answer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Keegan Bradley\u2019s PGA Tour results in 2025<\/p>\n

Bradley has been an incredibly consistent performer this season.<\/p>\n

His results on the PGA Tour this season have been hugely impressive:<\/p>\n\nResults<\/td>\nBradley\u2019s finishes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEvents played<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nWins<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nTop-5s<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nTop-10s<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nTop-25s<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCuts made<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

The reality of the situation now is that there are not 12 American players who are better than Bradley, with the Ryder Cup around two-and-a-half months away.<\/p>\n

It would be a real shock now if he wasn\u2019t a playing member of the team at Bethpage Black come September.<\/p>\n

If Bradley does play at the Ryder Cup, it will be fascinating to watch everything unfold and see how the dynamic works.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keegan Bradley has a very real chance of qualifying for the U.S. Ryder Cup team. Bradley was named…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,1509,8656,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-46303","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-ryder-cup","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114812690368815584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46303","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=46303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}