{"id":101199,"date":"2025-08-27T16:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101199\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:27:07","slug":"ryder-cup-2025-keegan-bradley-doesnt-select-self-names-six-u-s-captains-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101199\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup 2025: Keegan Bradley doesn’t select self, names six U.S. captain’s picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keegan Bradley is keeping his clubs at home.<\/p>\n

Ending a months-long drama about his playing status, Bradley on Wednesday announced that he was not among his six captain\u2019s picks for next month\u2019s Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black.<\/p>\n

Bradley instead chose Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa and Ben Griffin \u2013 Nos. 7-9 in the final points standings, respectively \u2013 as well as Patrick Cantlay, Sam Burns and Cameron Young.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision was made a while ago that I wasn\u2019t playing,\u201d Bradley said. \u201cThere was a point this season that I was playing, but all of these guys stepped up in a major way and played their way onto this team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those six picks join a U.S. roster that already includes automatic qualifiers Scottie Scheffler, J.J. Spaun, Xander Schauffele, Bryson DeChambeau, Russell Henley and Harris English from the two-year points cycle.<\/p>\n

Bradley\u2019s highly scrutinized decision to leave himself off the active roster registers as a mild surprise after the past few months and caps a wild two-year journey. Snubbed for the 2023 Ryder Cup squad, he was stunningly elevated to the captaincy in July 2024 as the leaders of the PGA of America sought to break the mold of its leadership group.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old initially said he\u2019d only be part of the active roster if he were among the six automatic qualifiers, but his stance began to soften in June after he captured the Travelers Championship, a signature event on the PGA Tour. Even though Bradley didn\u2019t sustain that run of form for the last two months of the Tour season, at the Tour Championship \u2013 where he played in the penultimate group in the final round and ultimately tied for seventh \u2013 he maintained that he would operate in the best interest of the American team. He called his 2025 season, amid all the distractions of the captaincy, the \u201cproudest season I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt broke my heart not to play,\u201d Bradley said. \u201cYou work forever to make these teams. But I was chosen to be the captain of this team, and my goal was to be the best captain I could be, and this is the best way I thought I could do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the unique aspects of his job was that Bradley, the player, needed to be evaluated by Bradley, the captain, and the rest of Team USA leadership. And so as he made the calls Monday to those left off the team, Bradley said that he, too, was \u201cbummed out\u201d and \u201cmoping around,\u201d just as the other players were. But his mindset soon shifted.<\/p>\n

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From Scottie Scheffler and the automatic qualifiers to Keegan Bradley\u2019s six captain\u2019s picks, here\u2019s who will represent the U.S. at Bethpage Black.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuickly you realize what a dream it is to be a Ryder Cup captain,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t care how it works out, as long as we win on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas and Morikawa were Nos. 7 and 8, respectively, in points, and though Morikawa has been out of form for the past few months (his best finish over the last three months: T-8), he has a winning record in the Ryder Cup and remains one of the game\u2019s most accurate and precise players, ideal qualities in the foursomes format.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the heartbeat of our team,\u201d Bradley said of Thomas. \u201cThis guy was born to play Ryder Cups, especially at Bethpage Black.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bradley reveals six U.S. Ryder Cup captain’s picks<\/p>\n

United States captain Keegan Bradley names Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Ben Griffin, Patrick Cantlay, Sam Burns and Cameron Young as his captain’s picks for the 2025 Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

Griffin, meanwhile, was one of the breakout stars of the year after a two-win campaign that included 10 top-15s in his last 12 events and now has him up to a career-best No. 7 in Data Golf rankings. Though he lacks any match-play experience, he joined Andrew Novak in April to capture the Tour\u2019s only team event, the Zurich Classic, and boasts one of the most complete games on Tour, ranking seventh in strokes gained: total.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the biggest honor of all time to be on a Ryder Cup team,\u201d Griffin said. \u201cThat phone call would have easily gone either way for me. Keegan voiced to me early on \u2013 there\u2019s good phone calls and bad phone calls, and leave no doubt. I\u2019m proud of how I fought at the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cantlay, who tied for second at East Lake in the season finale, has a 15-6-1 career mark in team match play and was one of the Americans\u2019 strongest players two years ago in a losing effort in Rome. Burns, the top-ranked putter on Tour, has now played on four consecutive U.S. teams while the big-hitting Young, a rookie, has strong course history at Bethpage and has been trending as well as any American over the past month-plus, with his first career victory in the regular season-ending Wyndham Championship and two other top-5s.<\/p>\n

The Americans have won only three of the last 11 Ryder Cups, but their past two home victories (in 2016 and \u201921) have been by an average of eight points.<\/p>\n

Luke Donald, once again leading the Europeans as they look to win on the road for the first time since 2012, will reveal his six captain\u2019s picks on Monday at 9 a.m. EDT on Golf Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keegan Bradley is keeping his clubs at home. Ending a months-long drama about his playing status, Bradley on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-101199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}