Pat Bradley, the Lpga Fammer Hall, has it self Hall of Fame – Pat Bradley House – which debuted earlier this summer at the Golf Association of Massachusetts in Norton, about 30 miles south of Boston and 65 miles south of the Bradley hometown of Westford. Elegant space with the formation of the crown on the ceiling and the natural light that is poured although large windows accommodate all six main bradyley trophies along with about 180 other photos, tiles, tiles and different memoranda of Pb, including a bowling bag and cabbage baby.
When the room opened on July 1, more than 100 guests came to celebrate the case, among them the 39-year-old nephew Pat Keegan, whose participation, in what was an extremely busy year for him, satisfied his aunt. “You made everyone’s day,” She later tackled it, “but you made my day especially.”
KEEGAN, probably you are aware, is the catch of 2025 US Ryder Cup teamwhich one month from now will be shared with its European counterpart at Bethpage Black in Long Island. There are many prominent elements for the Keyegan Captain – his relatively young age; His ancestry (he has played in only two Ryder cups and none since 2014); His lonely wolf status (when he was appointed captain, he was with his acceptance a little of an external tour that mainly kept himself in the tour).
But the wildest wrinkle may be that the aunt had filled the equivalent role in the women’s play when she captured the US 2000 Solheim Cup team – Serendipity who did not lose in Keegan. After accepting his post of Ryder Cup last summer, Keegan called his aunt and said, “Pat, we have made history. We got a captain of Ryder Cup and Solheim Cup in the same family.”
KEEGAN has not consulted with Pat on the captain’s tactical tips, she said on Thursday In an interview With my colleague, Claire Rogers. But Pat said that the decision the golf world has fixed for the best of the last four months – whether Keegan would do or MUST Spend one of his captain’s choices on himself – “weighed on him”. Pat said that Keegan looked internal as he deceived the matter, but also relied on his father Mark, who is a pro -club, and five Keegan’s auxiliary captains. The sole adviser was: “At that decision you make, honor, will be the right decision.”
That decision, We learned on WednesdayIt was that Keegan would focus exclusively on the direction of his team and not play in it.
Was Pat surprised?
“Not really,” she said, adding, “I would have wanted him to play, and he disown have played if the curveball of a captain would not have come. “
Pat knows the weight of a team’s leadership, and no matter how plan, and the unexpected will happen. At the 2000 Solheim Cup at Loch Lomond in Scotland, the weather was terrible: rain, wind, slope, delays. The conditions were as bad as the tournament organizers, concerned that the event could not end at the appointed time, asked each captain to put one of their respective players in an envelope if the need for a sudden Play of sudden saturation arises to determine a winner.
No such drastic action was necessary-the feelings ended on Sunday with Europe navigating a three-point win-but another impossible scenario demanded Bradley’s attention, as European star Annika Sorenstam housed a 25-meter chip in a Sunday match in the morning. After the ball fell, one of Sorenstam’s opponents, Kelly Robbins, noted that Sorenstam had played outside. According to Rule 10-1C, Americans may require Sorenstam to reproduce the shooting or let it stand. Bradley demanded that Sorenstam reproduce it, which some observers thought was incorrect. “We played within the rules of the game,” Bradley said later. “When the rules of the game are supported, the spirit of the game is supported.”
What lessons did you get from her captain? “You have to be flexible,” she said on Thursday. “And you have to be true about your process.”
Pat and Keyan both want to tell a story about the 1999 Ryder Cup in the country in Brookline, Mass; This was the year Justin Leonard HOLD a strong blow to seal a rush of stimulating return to Americans. Keegan, then 13, was there that week and Greenside as Leonard of his size. Keegan could not see much, so his father raised his shoulders to testify Leonard doing what would become one of the most indelible blows in the history of the game. As Pat says it, at that moment Keygan told his father, “Dad, I want to be in a Ryder cup one day.”
“And from that moment,” said Pat, “It wasn’t just a dream – it was a mission.”
Keegan has said that he and Pat are very much in terms of their competitive intensity and perseverance. Pat’s Drive, she said, came in part from growing up as the only sister among the five brothers and constantly felt like she had to prove herself. Keegan came from growing up in Vermont, where he passed so much that Golf played, and Massachusetts and later attended St. John’s University in Queens, New York – an impossible route for a new golf player with PGA Tour’s dreams.
Because of his ancestry, Keegan, as Pat, also found himself to feel like he had to prove to belong. His talent helped in that front. So did his work ethic. But so did another quality. “He was a leader with his cousins,” Pat said. “He was a leader on ski slopes. He was a leader in college.” For his role of Ryder Cup, he added, “He was done for the moment.”
Pat will be there in Bethpage next month when her nephew enters the electric colosseum that will be the first tee on Friday morning. She knows that her nerves will dance, just like them when she herself took the first first as a player. But she also knows that another emotion will quickly consume her anxiety.
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