Why is Brandt Singeker next US captain? We asked him

Chicago – this time a year ago, Brandt Singeker could not have been on the short list. You know, that unclear rankings with considerable resumes, who can one day capture a US team in the presidents Cup or Ryder Cup.

He was struggling with his game, he had zero experience as an auxiliary captain-a prerequisite these days-and he was right in that 43-year-old purgatory range, where your best days are behind you, but your high tournaments are still in the distance.

And then Keegan Bradley happened.

Bradley was Given the Captain of the Ryder Cup of 2025 In early July 2024, a shocking development that began another decision. To learn the cords, Bradley should be a captain’s assistant in the Pre -’24 Cup in Montreal. Then happened Keegan Bradley BACK, Profit of the BMW Championship And playing his way to that team. Suddenly, Americans needed another assistant to take his place.

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Snesis loved everything that Captain Jim Furyk asked him in Montreal – tasks and communication that often move exclusively in the background. During his exit interview, after a prevailing American victory, Sons made clear his Captain’s dreams of PGA Tour’s governing team, which is good and good but does not exclude his renewal from the typical captain’s rating.

Often the captains are players with a multitude of team appearances, double -digit winning, a big championship or perhaps an impact like the world no. 1. SUNDEKER approached … but ultimately there is no any From this. However, he made furk in his corner, who called it a few weeks ago To break the news.

Buddy, you will be the captain of the presidents Cup.

Based on his reaction, those weeks have been a whirlpool. In the immediate minutes after being officially announced in Agoikago on Tuesday morning-from a bar on the roof overlooking Millennium Park and during a delicious press conference featuring host members and many local media I asked a sneeker a less timid question:

Competition among your peers to be an American captain is quite deep. I’m curious if you can self -assess, why did you get the job? Why were you chosen for his position?

A predominantly festive press conference may not have been the right setting, but he took the question in a good breath after the room calmed her laughter.

“There were a lot of bribes involved. You know?” He said, looking for more laughter. “You know, I have no idea. This is a great question. I don’t know how the process went.”

Singeker emphasized his experience serving under the furk in Montreal, but he is not clearly sure why he was chosen. The real answer is in many aspects and at this point it may not matter, but it is not difficult to reason.

The American captain in this era was set to run through Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, but for very different and extremely drastic reasons, they are not even in a place where they can take on the role. Furyk has captured both team events already and is likely not to want to do so again. Among his captains in Montreal was Kevin Kisner, who is at the beginning of a busy broadcast career, and Justin Leonard, who greets a generation that is no longer connected to the tournament on a weekly basis. Steve StrICKER has captured as US teams and Fred couples have fortunately moved to a (strictly) role of the deputy captain, leaving Stewart Cink and Singenker as your main candidates. The first will get the job at one point, but the latter has it now. So a better question for the moment is: Will he be good in it?

Is, of course, very quickly to show. But a large part of the captain is doing exactly what he did this week – appear in Agoikago and fly the flag. Back in September and learn the intimate golf course. Use these opportunities to gather support from locals (who can better visit the soldier’s field during Sunday Singles matches) and get used to listening to questions that you will not really have an excellent answer.

Things like, What kind of advantage does Geoff Ogilvy’s international team have since its course design firm renovated the Golf Course?

Or, Would you choose Keegan Bradley in your team if you were captain this fall?

Or, What specific things have Jim Furyk or other captains do you want to include as a captain?

The latter was one of the first questions I paved his way when we went out on the sunny terrace overlooking Michigan Lake. And throughout our 10-minute convost, Singeker offered more general ideas than everything. He wants to bring a team cook to the country club Medinah so that the team can have dinners on property before going to their hotel. Anything that eliminates stress over a very stressful week, says the Sueker, he will try to do. He hopes to play a gang of PGA Tour events next year and build confidence with anyone who can do his team. In this sense, he is checking the boxes simply well.

But it was not really up to the back and last row that he showed how he really feels about the captain, vice president and the role that veterans players may have in action without shaking a club. SUDEKER mentioned that one of his best experiences as a player came to the 2016 Ryder Cup, where Noth Begy, a tall broadcaster, served as a team assistant that week. He was not an official vice president, but he was a holder of types for the current Vice President Tiger Woods. When he was not closing around Woods or Darius Rucker or Paulina gretzky, Begay was tasked with being close to Sneteber, who went 3-0 that week.

“Just just more to have someone with you crossing the fire, right?” Singeker said. “Talking to you. Keeping you calmly. By letting you know he’s there with you. Just being a friend, indeed, more than anything else.”

We all heard the players say that line before. So I asked her, Why do you need this?

“Because you feel like you are only that week, you know?” He replied.

“Many times you feel there alone. Even though you have a partner, everyone is going through something different, or not? Some boys can play great. Some boys can be fighting. Some boys are probably coming from the best year of their careers. Some boys may try to find it late in the year. Thus, meeting the players where they are and have what they are going.

Pry enough in the sness’s mentality and he seems to have understood that part. The best professors know how to get used to it. The best managers know what it is like to manage. It can be happy and can be simple, but it can also be the most important thing.