Keegan Bradley is known for some of his nervous, almost anxious demeanor on the golf course. So how does that translate to how he is in the week before a golf tournament?
According to his caddy, Scott Vailit means a little bit of everything.
“Like sometimes he’ll be so amped up. He’s like, ‘Scott, I didn’t sleep a wink.’ And then he wants to go to dinner at 4:30 on Monday and Tuesday,” Vail told co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz on this week’s episode of GOLF Subpar.
“But once Tuesday night is over, it’s DoorDash, it’s Uber Eats. He doesn’t leave that hotel room. I say, ‘You’re a piece of shit.’
Leading up to the tour, Vail says everyone gives Bradley a hard time about how often he wants to go to dinner early and then retire for the evening before most people have dinner.
Then, as Stoltz noted from Last month’s Presidents CupBradley’s energy level is so high that he can barely keep food in his stomach.
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But it wasn’t just that he had high energy, Vail said Sunday at the Presidents Cup. When Bradley beat Si Woo Kim, who was the hottest player on the International during the games, he barely said a word until the final goal.
“Keegan came to that course on Sunday and I could feel him on the range, he didn’t say a word to me and I was like, ‘Oh, this guy, he’s going to bring it today,'” Vail said. “I’m totally fine with that. I’d rather he not say a word than I talk him off the cliff.”
This is even more impressive given that Bradley and Kim have a great relationship with Bradley, Vail and Kim’s man Manny Villegas getting along very well as well.
Vail said his level of focus on Sundays is just different.
“When you were alone, it’s just you and your friend, it was a different atmosphere,” he said. “It was a little more serious. And he was more focused on the task at hand. And he did a great job with that.”
For more from Vail, including how he found out that Bradley would be the Ryder Cup captainwatch the full episode of GOLF Subpar below.
