KEEGAN BRADLEY RYder dilemma may have found easy answers

For the last 14 months, the Ryder Cup has been the present and future of Keegan Bradley as Team USA captain.

Bradley has plunged himself by being captain, impressing world no. 1 Scottie Scheffler and other members of the basic team with his motivational tactics and connecting with the group. As he runs a brain belief hoping to win the Cup again at Bethpage Black in September, Bradley is also playing the best golf of his career, making his job as much harder captain than expected.

When Bradley won the traveler championship In June, it seemed like an inevitable conclusion that he would choose himself to be the first captain to play since Arnold Palmer in 1963. But since that victory in Connecticut, Bradley has gone T41-Cut-T44-T17. That has done his teasing decision – one he will make on Wednesday when he makes all six of his captain’s choices – the most difficult.

“Difficult is difficult because I want to put the team in the best position to win the Ryder Cup,” Bradley said after the third round of Saturday at the 2025 tour championship in East Lake. “So there is an unknown type of” Arnold Palmer did it in 1963, but it’s a completely different tour now. Just just a heavy decision. All choices are difficult. The captain will be judged who they choose. Strange to choose yourself. It is something I have thought of for a long time, and I just want to make sure. “

If Bradley, who has not played on a Ryder Cup team since 2014, is looking for a sign of What to dotwo days past in East lake May have stamped his fate Ryder Cup.

He arrived at Atlanta aened a long list of Ryder Cup tasks, from ticket distribution in Bethpage on Monday to a dinner on Tuesday. The Ryder Cup has been everything he is thinking of as his decision and competition nearby. Bradley did not expect to play well this week in East Lake, and a first first opening did not do much to strengthen the issue to choose yourself for one of the last points in the team. But then came a 64-year-old, Friday, which Bradley supported Saturday with a 63 to put into a quarrel. He will enter the last round of Sunday in fourth place on the 13th, three shots behind Tommy Fleetwood and Patrick Cantlay.

“I have no idea,” Bradley said on Saturday when asked what allowed him to play well this week. “I was very tired, Tuesday, Wednesday.

Bradley admitted that taking the Ryder Cup from his mind has been almost impossible, even when he is inside the ropes trying to win the golf tournament. He thinks of things in the middle of the round and writes them in his backyard book to put on his phone afterwards.

He is the captain, and this is a hat he cannot remove.

“I caught myself in the range today thinking about something I wanted to tell the team in Bethpage, and that happens to me all round,” Bradley said. “I see a guy on the manager’s chart, and I remember who we are thinking of uniting it, and it is good that they are playing well, or I wish they were a little higher, whatever it was a wild year.

“But it’s really difficult,” Bradley said to be captain and playing at a high level. “You talk to the captains of the past, this is when you really start to strengthen it. They are doing the same; they are simply not here competing like me. They went through this alike. It is just another unique experience. One I never expected.”

Six members of the Bradley team are already set in stone.

Scheffler, Xander Schauffle, JJ Spaun, Bryson Dechambeau, Russell Henley and Harrish English were automatically qualified at the point. It seems possible that Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa and Cantlay will also head to New York in September. Ben Griffin has played extraordinary golf throughout the season, and Cameron Young, who has a good history in Bethpage, has come late.

This leaves Bradley, which ranks 13th in the official rankings of the world golf and will have a chance to win the FedEx Cup on Sunday in East Lake to place the final touches in his final statement. On the paper, if Bradley was not the captain, he is likely to be a lock to make the team. That he is the one who has to make the call makes it much harder. It is a dilemma that the PGA of America may have predicted, but one that no one has the answer to solve.

“It’s really a strange thing to think about making the choices and then thinking about choosing yourself,” Bradley said. “Ridy is funny. It doesn’t seem to be a reality sometimes. But we will do the best we can to make the right decision, and it will be controversial to certain people in the same way. I’m prepared for this. I’m sure whatever decision I make is for the team’s improvement, and we’ll see.”

In 24 hours, Bradley could hold the FedEx cup. He would be a winner twice this season and definitely one of the 12 best American players. Should he rip about East Lake, a course he has not played historically well, once more, overcoming Cantlay and Fleetwood while holding an accused scene, would surely be the whole captain Keegan Bradley who should see to make that call, right?

“I don’t know,” Bradley said. “We will discover tomorrow. I will either win or am not, and we will know the choices. We are very confident with the choices we have. One more golf day to complete all this, and I can’t wait.

“I have finished with this whole process. I love it in any way.”

In 18 holes, Captain Keegan Bradley will have his answer. That is to say, if he has not already found it over the last two days in East Lake.