KEEGAN BRADLEY will capture US Ryder Cup team in Bethpage Black next month but, As we learned WednesdayHe will not hit any shots.
Bradley surprised the Golf world when he announced his six captain’s elections to round out his 12th team and His name was not one of them. Bradley was the 11th in the ranking and it was widely believed that he would be The first chapter of the game since Arnold Palmer in 1963. But instead he chose to go with Six other options.
“I grew up wanting to fight with these boys,” Bradley said Wednesday at the US PGA headquarters in Frisco, Texas. “This broke my heart not to play. Really happened. You work forever to make these teams, but in the end best for this team.
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– Dylan dethier (@dylan_Dethier) 27 August 2025
But was that the right decision? The most open analyst of the sport thinks so.
Brandel Chamblee said five of the captain’s election were not surprising to him, and essentially descended if Bradley would choose himself, which was likely to leave Maverick McNealy or Sam Burns. But when Bradley was withdrawing from his choices on LIVE TV on Wednesday and overlooked himself in the rankings to reach the other player, it was a clear hint that he was not calling his number.
“I think he may have won Ryder Cup in making this decision,” Chamblee told Golf Channel after the elections were taken. “When you start watching a captain or in a team, it’s never anything that does a great player or a great captain, but it’s an assembly of many small things like a mosaic.
“And in the same way you took the sense when Luke Donald, in the opening of ceremonies in 2023, got up and spoke Italian for two or three minutes, you thought, This cup of ryder is over“He continued.” Because if he passed and thought about it in that kind of detail how to open the ceremony, what would the rest of the week be and how complete he thought about things? So Keegan Bradley simply thinking about the decision to choose himself, this is what makes a leader, make a personal sacrifice for the collective good of a team. The kind of thing a leader would make that would make his team run through a wall for him. Imagine the rest of that week; He will look at them and be like, I drew aside to focus on every little detail to help you guysAnd how empowers this should be for his team. “
Bradley admitted on Wednesday there was a time earlier this summer when he was waiting to be in the team. Only recently he began to support the next direction and said he had his mind composed for a while now.
“I think this is just how he is a kind of approaching this captain is that he wants to do everything that is the best for the team,” said Justin Thomas, who was one of the captain’s choices. “He wants to communicate everything, as well as the one he can. I know he is brave, and I think we are all brave for him, but at the same time, I would say he will lead us to a victory will be cooler than any experience he may have as a player, and this is probably what he feels best for us.
Chamblee, who added the Bradley press conference Wednesday was one of the best he saw an American captain, said he has heard some people discredit the difficulty of being a captain playing, but he disagrees with it.
“He is the team leader, the team captain,” Chamblee said. “Having cross goals that week and try simultaneously preparing to play golf and while trying to get the rest of the team in the right frame of mind, captain, I have heard some people try to rest it (and say) is not so difficult or is not so complicated, and I cannot disagree more.”
He also thinks that Bradley’s decision will move forward in the motivation of the American team, which lost its previous Ryder Cup 16.5-11.5 in Rome.
“There are only so many moving pieces,” he said. “Dynamics group is an interesting philosophy. And that’s what he is called to navigate that week – and it’s harder than playing.”
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