KEEGAN BRADLEY SHOULD THE FIRST RYDER CUP

Bethpage Black is one of the most challenging, fraudulent golf courses in the United States, that’s exactly why it has it Famous sign that warns players of the dizzying task ahead.

But this week, for the 45th Cup Ryder? It was nothing as the terrible natives know.

The greens were soft and host (and they were never told after it rained at the end of the week). Tees moved upwards. And it gnarly harsh – one of the most famous characteristics of the course – was not a barrier at all.

So what happened?

“We tried to put the course to help our team,” Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley said Sunday night. “Of course it wasn’t the right decision.”

Bradley US team lost 15-13 to EuropeansA competition that was a laugh until the Americans attacked Sunday in bachelors and turned it into a last competitive day.

But one of the reasons why it is so difficult to win a Ryder Road Cup – which Europe made Sunday for the first time in a decade – is not just because of the hostile crowd at home, but because the host team and captain get to set the course at their wish. This may mean fierce fragmentation or allowing it to grow. Or move the teat for players to hit certain distances in the greens. Anyone for captains to think they can give their team an advantage.

Bradley decided to draw some of the teeth from Bethpage would fit his team well. The problem is, the European Captain and Statistics Guru, Edoardo Molinari, had told people that the organization would play exactly in favor of the Europeans, and it was not the way he expected the US to create the course.

“I think every time you are the leader of a team or captain or coach, or whatever – we talked about this last night – you will get the tuning and you have to blame when things don’t go well. I definitely made a mistake in the course configuration,” Bradley said. “I should have heard a little more about my intuition. For whatever reason, it was not the right way to set the course. The green were so soft as I have ever seen the greens without rain. Especially here, it could become strong enough, and they never strengthened.”

He was then asked if the data said to cut roughly.

“We sat down, or I did and looked at a lot of information. We thought this was the best way to set the golf course to win,” he said. “You look at the past ryder cups, and that’s the kind of way you go. You know, sometimes, you need to make a decision on what to do, and you know if I could come back, I would surely have changed it.

“But Europeans played just extraordinary golf. It doesn’t matter how you put the course when you play well.”

Europe done Play well, holding a commanding lead 11.5-4.5 after two days and four sessions. And Sunday was all created to be a European parade of victory, but after Europe took control of a handful of matches, it was the US that beat a ton of them. The Americans won the first three points of the day and then had to win the four remaining matches on the course to steal the cup stunningly, though they only turned out to be short (a win, three links).

In the last question of the US press conference on Sunday at night, Bradley was asked if he was captured by Luke Donald, who has now won two consecutive Ryder Cups leading Europeans. Justin Thomas replied first.

“We needed to make more strokes,” he said. “This is what he needed for Keegan; he needed us to make more strokes. That’s what he had to do.”

“I think in many ways when you are a captain away there are far fewer decisions,” Bradley said. “When you are the captain of the house, you have to put the course. I wish I could have some of those decisions again. I definitely feel I have made some mistakes there, but it’s hard to say it will rain in front of the Ryder Cup. It is difficult to show the kind of way it will be when we are here.

“I have to take responsibility for this result for sure.”