Ryder Cup<\/a> on Monday, arguing that the break from tradition at Bethpage Black in New York would bring the competition into \u201ctoday\u2019s age.\u201d\n <\/p>\n\n US players will each get $500,000 \u2013 with $300,000 of that going to charity and the remaining $200,000 serving as a stipend \u2013 the PGA of America announced last year, an increase from the $200,000 that had been designated only for charity since 1999.\n <\/p>\n
\n European Ryder Cup Team members do not get paid and Europe\u2019s captain Luke Donald told members of the British media this week that the US players risk having the home crowd turn on them over the issue of pay.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIf the US players are getting paid a stipend, or whatever it is, and they aren\u2019t performing, the New Yorkers could make them know about it,\u201d Donald said, according to reports.\n <\/p>\n
\n Bradley, who said he planned to donate his stipend in addition to the money earmarked for charity, pushed back as a reporter suggested the pay-for-play approach had \u201cquestionable\u201d optics.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI don\u2019t really get that, but I think the goal here was that the charity dollars hadn\u2019t been raised in 25, 26 years,\u201d he said ahead of Friday\u2019s start to the biennial match play competition.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThese players are going to do the right thing and do a lot of really good with this money.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The topic of player compensation came up during the Americans\u2019 disastrous 2023 campaign in Rome, when Patrick Cantlay declined to wear a Team USA hat in what some reports suggested was an act of protest.\n <\/p>\n
\n Top-caliber golfers are among the best compensated athletes in all of professional sports.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m not concerned about what Europe does or what they think. I\u2019m concerned about what my team is doing,\u201d said Bradley.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI was tasked with a job the PGA of America asked me to do, and this was what we decided. We wanted to bring the Ryder Cup into today\u2019s age, and we felt like this was the best way to do it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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\n Bradley, who omitted himself from the US lineup, should have more than the usual home team advantage from the famously rowdy New York sports fans, after playing college golf just 25 miles (40.23 km) down the road at St John\u2019s University.\n <\/p>\n
\n Beloved among diehard fans, the three-day Ryder Cup has not seen an away winner since Europe\u2019s \u201cMiracle at Medinah\u201d in 2012.\n <\/p>\n
\n After dealing the Americans a devastating 2023 defeat, Europe\u2019s captain knows the holders can expect a partisan crowd that includes US President Donald Trump on the opening day.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhat makes Ryder Cups fun is the atmosphere, is the energy that it brings. It really is an environment that you want to experience as a player because it\u2019s nothing quite like it that you get to play in an individual tournament,\u201d said Briton Donald. \u201cThese guys embrace that. They thrive in it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link New York Reuters \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Team USA captain Keegan Bradley defended a plan to pay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-176167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176167","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=176167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}