KEEGAN BRADLEY DIRECTION IS ANYTHING, BUT The invisible advantage falls

Since Keegan Bradley was appointed captain of Ryder Cup, whether or not he or not He would choose himself Being in the team in Bethpage Black are shaken. When Bradley won the traveler championship In June, it seemed like an inevitable conclusion that he would be the first captain to play Since Arnold Palmer in 1963.

Bradley’s dilemma It was at the forefront of the conversation this week in the 2025 BMW Championshp at the Valley Golf Club Caves in Owings Mills, MD.

Patrick Cantlay, who is likely to be one of the six choices of the Bradley captain, gave the knot to choose himself. Rickie Fowler, which will surely be no choice, did the same. Scottie Scheffler pushed the captain’s question. Rory Mcilroy, who will seek to support his pledge that Europe will win on American soil, said there is no doubt that Bradley is “one of the 12 best Americans”. This is potentially part of the games from the great winner five times, who would like to see Team USA deal with the sail of a captain playing, but it is also true. Bradley is currently ranked 12th in the World Golf and 20th Golf Data. He is one of the 12 best Americans on each list.

While Bradley’s quarrel was the conversation of pre-Turneut events at Caves Valley, something more important was distinguished among the promotion of Ryder Cup’s questions by being thrown into potential participants.

When the US team fought, mainly on European soil, it has led to criticism of the captain – to be in Jim Furyk or Tom Watson or Zach Johnson – and how they have treated a team full of stars that are accustomed to doing their things, how they want to do it and never put themselves out of their bubble. While the European team has found cohesion thanks to the captains that have created a culture that has tied the team together, Americans have often appeared sprinkled or scattered as rumors of irritation with meetings, dinners and clothing that follow them at home after losses in Europe.

Bradley, 39, was a unique choice for captain Team USA. He is still a very competitive player, not an old lion, whose winning days are in the past. He does not only play a small portion of the exception events to recognize possible choices, but is in the week of the tour inside and the week outside. He is around the pillars of his team every week.

There is a possible advantage after Bradley craft his team.

For Scheffler, having a captain in Bradley who is one of them has been refreshing, and his leadership style and motivation tactics have left an impression in world no. 1. Feeling, according to Scheffler, is different with Bradley at the top than with others in previous years.

“The intensity he has brought as captain – I mean, he has finally exceeded my expectations of the captain. He has done a great job,” Scheffler said on Wednesday. “He is passionate about the Ryder Cup. He cares a lot for us as players. It has been a lot of fun to see him develop in this role, and we are excited to start the Ryder Cup.

“He leaves some messages in our closet every time, a lot of text messages,” Scheffler said when asked how Bradley raised the ribbon as captain. “I just feel like, since Keegan is out of here a lot of some of the other captains we have had in the past – not that they have done a bad job. It is different having it here weeks and weeks out. that at dinner.

Bradley, who has not been on a Ryder Cup team since 2014, admitted Wednesday that he had been “closed” earlier in his career. He has enjoyed the recognition of boys in the tournament better in recent years, which has benefited him, both player and captain.

While he has plunged himself into his role as captain, Bradley has sought advice from coaches in other sports as well as Golf. He pointed out that he talked to Tiger Woods, who was a captain playing in the President’s Cup, but he also talked to coaches who had had to collect All-Stars teams and make them quickly gather and play for a common purpose.

“I really have been most relying on the national team coaches, where these teams gather quickly and they are superstar athletes and they are accustomed to being high dogs wherever they go,” Bradley said. “I really think it’s a little more applicable than – we don’t have any player role in our team. There is no guy there just getting dancing or just playing protection. Guydo guy on our team is one of the best players in the world competing to win diplomas and try to win the tournament every week. Role.”

In 2025 US Open, Bradley posted a photo in the closet of each future player with a photo of the US Ryder Cup with the player name in it and a message reading: “Bring your ego.” This was a trick that Bradley learned from the former New England patriot coach Bill Belichick, and it helped to push JJ Spaun in a US Open victory that helped him close a place in the team.

All this is evidence of another type of captain for Team USA. One focused on understanding what makes each team member mark, how to benefit the best of them and, most importantly, how to make them quickly gather as a team.

What Bradley has done in his year of the year, as the captain has been diverted in a way that has become commonplace for European leaders who have created a community culture that has extended generations. Where Europe Europe has often been larger than the sum of its parts, the American team loaded with stars has often been seen as 12 individuals riding high roads at home but breaks down across the Atlantic.

While Americans will benefit from playing this Ryder Cup in Long Island, Bradley’s understanding and connection with his team can end up being invaluable when the pressure grows in late September.

“To me, I’m treating the Ryder Cup as a real team,” Bradley said. “We won’t go outside the Ryder cups or what they did. I’m trying to act like this is a team that plays all year.

“I think an advantage I have had as captain is around the boys. I am around the boys in practical rounds, in the closet rooms, waiting in rain delays. I saw jj spaun open in this rain delay, and I am seeing it, and I like it – it didn’t seem to win the US.

Bradley has a big decision to make about his Ryder cup playing the future. But as a captain, he has so far “exceeded the expectations”, and is an advantage that can be essential for Americans as they try to keep serving before what he promises to be a rabid and startling home in New York.