As captain of the 2025 Team USA Ryder Cup, Keegan Bradley was tasked with selecting six of the competitors on the 12-man roster. The golf pro shocked the world when he decided not to assign himself a spot on the team.<\/p>\n
Bradley, 39, announced his captain’s picks who will compete in the biennial tournament late next month. Instead of selecting himself — as he is currently ranked 11th overall in the Ryder Cup rankings — Bradley selected Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay, Cameron Young, Ben Griffin, and Sam Burns.<\/p>\n
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Thomas is ranked seventh overall, with Morikawa eighth and Griffin ninth. Falling in order behind Bradley are Young, Cantley and Burns, ranked 14th, 15th and 16th, respectively.<\/p>\n
Rounding out the team are Scottie Scheffler, J.J. Spaun, Xander Schauffele, Russell Henley, Harris English and Bryson DeChambeau, who all auto qualified based on performance.<\/p>\n
“The decision was made awhile ago that I wasn’t playing,” Bradley said on Wednesday, revealing that he is focused on “being the best captain” that he can be. “There was a point this year where I was playing, a while ago. All these guys stepped up in a major way and played their way on this team.”<\/p>\n
According to Thomas, Bradley “wants to do whatever is best for the team.”<\/p>\n
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“I know he’s gutted (not to play), and I think all of us are gutted for him,” Thomas added. “But at the same time, I would say him leading us to a victory will be cooler than any experience he could have as a player, and that’s probably what he feels like is best for us. So we have all the faith in the world, and we don’t doubt him for one second for that.”<\/p>\n
The team gets set to tee off September 26 at the Bethpage Black Course in Farmingdale, New York.<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported by Men’s Journal<\/a> on Aug 27, 2025, where it first appeared in the Sports<\/a> section. Add Men’s Journal as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As captain of the 2025 Team USA Ryder Cup, Keegan Bradley was tasked with selecting six of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[25853,40534,18940,427,28868,23719,44720,11383,25858,5758,99,11385],"class_list":["post-123810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ben-griffin","tag-cameron-young","tag-collin-morikawa","tag-golf","tag-justin-thomas","tag-keegan-bradley","tag-patrick-cantlay","tag-ryder-cup","tag-sam-burns","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-sports","tag-xander-schauffele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123810","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=123810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}