Musings on Golf<\/a>\u201d podcast, PGA professional\u00a0Chandler Withington recalled an incident where Bradley blew up on longtime rules official Jeff Kiddie during the opening match of Sunday\u2019s session.<\/p>\nAt the time, the U.S. trailed 11.5-4.5, and it felt like a foregone conclusion that the Ryder Cup was over.<\/p>\n
During the opening singles match between Cameron Young and Justin Rose, Rose hit a drive on the 14th hole that required an official ruling. The ruling took longer than expected, and Bradley exploded.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow all of a sudden, we\u2019ve got this traffic jam with the first match,\u201d Withington said. \u201cBoth captains right up to it, and Jeff\u2019s sweating, and he\u2019s doing his thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kiddie reportedly explained to Bradley that the delay was inevitable based on the situation. But that wasn\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n
Withington said that Bradley confronted Kiddie in an angry exchange, using profanity to question the official\u2019s actions. Bradley then continued to berate Kiddie on the 15th hole, and on the 15th green, Withington claims that he Bradley said\u00a0\u201cYou see what you f\u2014ing did back there? Jesus, we\u2019re going to win this f\u2014ing thing. You\u2019re all f\u2014ing it up over here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mind you, Kiddie was the recipient of the 2023 PGA of America Golf Professional of the Year award and is highly regarded around the game.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Keegan] probably doesn\u2019t even know who Jeff is, right?\u201d Withington said. \u201cBut you\u2019ve got to undress one of our own three times because of your ineptitude for the first two days.\u201d<\/p>\n
To make matters even worse, Bradley\u2019s outburst reportedly made Kiddie so upset that he vowed not to return to the Ryder Cup in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Jeff Kiddie\u2019s like, \u2018Man, between the things that I heard said to the players on Saturday and this, I never want to be involved with the Ryder Cup ever again,’\u201d Withington said.<\/p>\n
Somehow, Keegan Bradley\u2019s nightmare Ryder Cup captaincy only continues to get worse well after the fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Bolte-Imagn Images Team USA Captain Keegan Bradley at the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage State Park Golf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,9199,6547,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-keegan-bradley","tag-ryder-cup","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799269","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=799269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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