{"id":160827,"date":"2025-09-26T04:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160827\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T04:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:07:11","slug":"keegan-bradleys-hilarious-attempt-to-whip-up-ryder-cup-crowd-on-eve-of-bethpage-black-clash-against-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160827\/","title":{"rendered":"Keegan Bradley&#8217;s hilarious attempt to whip up Ryder Cup crowd on eve of Bethpage Black clash against Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By DANIEL MATTHEWS IN NEW YORK <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  16:41 EDT, 25 September 2025   |  Updated:  16:41 EDT, 25 September 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">USA captain Keegan Bradley did his best to stoke up patriotic fervor on the eve of the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/ryder_cup\/index.html\" id=\"mol-d80403f0-9a48-11f0-b472-e5c739ae00b5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ryder Cup<\/a> by running up the 18th hole of Bethpage Black carrying the Stars and Stripes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On the eve of the match, Bradley whipped up a home crowd who are expected to create a hostile atmosphere for their their European visitors this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 45th Ryder Cup kicks off on Friday morning and players from both teams went through their final preparations on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Bradley was among those to take a last wander around Bethpage Black and his focus turned to ratcheting up the volume when he reached the 18th hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The USA captain grabbed a US flag &#8211; reportedly off a fan &#8211; and set off toward the giant grandstand behind the green. He could be seen waving the flag and urging the crowd to make more noise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After Bradley reached the green, he posed for pictures with his father, a young fan and several of his players.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f6bcb9d5f05f355f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/102459275-15134871-image-a-1_1758831039184.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\" alt=\"USA captain Keegan Bradley carried the Stars and Stripes up the 18th fairway on Thursday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">USA captain Keegan Bradley carried the Stars and Stripes up the 18th fairway on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f122ba631e9f0c6b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/102459279-15134871-image-m-3_1758831055901.jpg\" height=\"783\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Bradley did his best to whip up the crowd ahead of the start of the Ryder Cup on Friday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Bradley did his best to whip up the crowd ahead of the start of the Ryder Cup on Friday<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-47a8bf6346999c95\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/102459271-15134871-image-a-4_1758831079780.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Team USA will be cheered on by a fervent home crowd over the weekend at Bethpage Black\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Team USA will be cheered on by a fervent home crowd over the weekend at Bethpage Black<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-ea4ebeb83694c5e0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/102459269-15134871-image-a-5_1758831085780.jpg\" height=\"432\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The USA captain, who played the course while at college, is pictured with his father\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The USA captain, who played the course while at college, is pictured with his father<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The USA will take on Team Europe &#8211; led by Luke Donald &#8211; over three highly-anticipated days at Bethpage Black.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On Wednesday, US star <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/article-15130825\/Collin-Morikawa-Ryder-Cup-2025.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Collin Morikawa called on the New York crowds to cause \u2018absolute chaos\u2019 <\/a>at the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/ryder_cup\/index.html\" id=\"mol-0916b120-9979-11f0-b8eb-77b4901460cc\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ryder Cup<\/a> \u2013 and urged one of his teammates to throw fist-pumps in European faces when play gets underway on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The two-time major winner said: \u2018At Whistling Straits (in 2021) there was still a little bit of COVID so we had a crowd but it wasn&#8217;t as big as what they say it&#8217;s going to be here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I&#8217;ll be honest, I think it&#8217;s kind of tame so far, Tuesday and Wednesday. I hope Friday is just absolute chaos. I&#8217;m all for it. I think it feeds into who we are and the American players and the American Team. We want it. Like we want to use that to our advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I think every sport uses their home crowd to their advantage, and just because we don&#8217;t play in a setting like this doesn&#8217;t mean the craziness of New York and the rest of the country that people are traveling in from, it doesn&#8217;t mean that we can&#8217;t use that to our advantage.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/article-15133239\/Ryder-Cup-tickets-American-fans-Rory-McIlroy-New-York.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">As revealed by Daily Mail Sport<\/a>, figures from viagogo show that almost every <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/ryder_cup\/index.html\" id=\"mol-3f33cfc0-9a1b-11f0-ab2f-75d892238113\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ryder Cup<\/a> ticket sold in their resale market has been bought by fans of <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/team-usa-olympics\/index.html\" id=\"mol-3f2a32d0-9a1b-11f0-ab2f-75d892238113\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Team USA<\/a> \u2013 96 per cent to be precise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It is not yet clear what percentage of the overall galleries will be comprised of fans from the US, with around 50,000 due here on each of the three competition days.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Keegan Bradley&#8217;s hilarious attempt to whip up Ryder Cup crowd on eve of Bethpage Black clash against Europe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By DANIEL MATTHEWS IN NEW YORK Published: 16:41 EDT, 25 September 2025 | Updated: 16:41 EDT, 25 September&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[97,5904,394,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-160827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}