{"id":113077,"date":"2025-08-27T05:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113077\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T05:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:56:08","slug":"tom-watson-delivers-ryder-cup-captain-warning-to-keegan-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113077\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Watson delivers Ryder Cup captain warning to Keegan Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add Tom Watson to the list of former Ryder Cup captains who believe the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/18\/sports\/ryder-cup-captain-keegan-bradley-gave-fans-a-taste-of-bethpage-excitement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dual role of player and captain<\/a> is just too much for one person to shoulder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keegan Bradley seems all but set to name himself the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/26\/sports\/keegan-bradley-should-lean-into-unconventional-with-ryder-cup-picks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first player-captain for an American Ryder Cup team<\/a> since Arnold Palmer did so in 1963.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The possible decision has drawn concern from some and been endorsed by others, including President Donald Trump, who will appear at the Ryder Cup next month, taking place on Long Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Watson, a former U.S. Ryder Cup captain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sport\/golf\/article\/tom-watson-warns-keegan-bradley-against-player-captain-ryder-cup-role-n9hp0f8jq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">simply put it to The Times<\/a>: \u201cYou can\u2019t be both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49707602;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36939202\" width=\"883\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250824_bdd_ad1_141.jpg\" alt=\"Keegan Bradley plays his shot from the 17th tee during the final round of the TOUR Championship golf tournament. \" class=\"wp-image-36939202\"  \/>Keegan Bradley plays his shot from the 17th tee during the final round of the TOUR Championship golf tournament.  Brett Davis-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not have been a player-captain and the reason very simply is the scheduling, because the captain has to have his pairings in for the afternoon matches by 11 a.m.,\u201d Watson continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last two morning matches are going on for sure and you want to have the latitude to say this player is not playing well. For instance, in 1993, Paul Azinger got blown out in his first match and I thought, \u2018I\u2019m going to sit Paul and let him recoup.\u2019 I had to make that decision, and if I was playing in a match, what a huge distraction that would have been. You can\u2019t do it. You can\u2019t be both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watson served as the Ryder Cup captain for the American team in 2014, and his captaincy was not without its share of controversies, which included a feeling that he was out of touch with PGA Tour players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36939204\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2208862718.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Watson of the United States tees off on the 1st hole during the first round of the 2025 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 10, 2025 in Augusta, Georgia. \" class=\"wp-image-36939204\"  \/>Tom Watson of the United States tees off on the first hole during the first round of the 2025 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 10, 2025 in Augusta, Georgia.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>It would be hard to argue that Bradley isn\u2019t one of the top 12 best American golfers after he\u2019s won two PGA Tour events over the last two years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bradley will make his picks for the Ryder Cup team on Wednesday in a live event airing on Golf Channel and streaming on the Ryder Cup\u2019s YouTube channel at 11 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Add Tom Watson to the list of former Ryder Cup captains who believe the dual role of player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,23719,11383,99,16339],"class_list":["post-113077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-keegan-bradley","tag-ryder-cup","tag-sports","tag-tom-watson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}