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June 25, 2025

Captain of the US Ryder Cup team Keegan Bradley is in form and may decide to play at the tournament in September. The speculation has ignited a furious debate.

- Jack Rathborn

To play or not to play...

From the crushing disappointment of Tommy Fleetwood to the euphoria spilling out from Keegan Bradley's winning putt on the 18th green at TPC River Highlands in Connecticut. The Travelers Championship provided a glimpse of the bedlam that awaits at Bethpage Black in September's Ryder Cup.

As Fleetwood stumbled, Bradley, Team USA's captain, ruthlessly seized glory and ripped up the initial plans for this year's hosts in the process. Bradley was a shock pick to lead the United States in pursuit of revenge in New York this autumn, following an emphatic defeat at the hands of Europe in Rome two years ago.

The subject of one of the most iconic scenes in Netflix series Full Swing, Bradley was gently told over the phone he would not be joining the stars and stripes as one of skipper Zach Johnson's wildcard picks in Italy.

"There's no easy way to say this, my friend," Bradley was told by a clearly uncomfortable Johnson, who would eventually oversee one of the more farcical defeats in the event's history, with the star-studded Americans imploding amid rumours swirling around pay demands and a bizarre hat protest.

The raw footage in the show showed a "devastated" Bradley, then No 18 in the world, consoled by his wife and son. By that point, the documentary had made it clear his desperation to play in another Ryder Cup nine years after his last, revealing that he still hadn't unpacked his suitcase from that 2014 contest due to the agony of defeat in Scotland and the sense of unfinished business.

Luke Donald would go on to mastermind a 16.5-11.5 beatdown of the US team, which included the game's most dominant player, Scottie Scheffler, who was left in tears after the Texan and fivetime major winner Brooks Koepka suffered a record 9 and 7 thrashing to Viktor Hovland and Ludvig Aberg.

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