Kegan Bradley’s Ryder CuP Conundrum: Can he Captain Team Usa and a player in Bethpage Black? | Golf news

Kegan Bradley looks forward to leading Team Usa to Ryder Cup Glory in September, but can his role grow from Captaincy to a player after his last success in the PGA tour?

Bradley was announced last summer as captain of the next United States team, after Tiger Woods retreated this role, as former PGA champion Zach Johnson and his cost to restore the cup in Bethpage Black.

The 39 -year -old will become the youngest Captain Rider Cup since Arnold Palmer in 1963, while there is still a possibility that Bradley will be able to repeat what Palmer did in that year’s competition and works as a leader of the United States of America.

What led to Bradley’s approach to the Rider Cup of Double? Will Bradley qualify automatically, or is he likely to call himself a captain? We take a closer look at what it might mean to Ryder Cup plans in the United States …

How does Rider Cup qualification work?

The rehabilitation of the Ryder CUP team started in the Team USA team at the beginning of 2024, with one point for every $ 1,000 for all those who reduce players and each of the four specialties in that season.

The same number of points for each PGA Tour event is displayed during the year 2025, starting from Sentry in January and the rehabilitation campaign that passes to the BMW championship in August.

There is an additional weighting for specializations this year, as it got 1.5 points per 1000 dollars for all the players who cut in Masters, PGA CHAMPIORSHIP, US Open and Open.

It will make the first six team in the Rider Cup points at the end of the rehabilitation campaign in mid -August, where six choices were announced to lead the team after the round championship in the following week.

How did Bradley become the Rider Cup competitor?

Bradley’s admiration last season, ranked second in the Sony Open in Hawaii and Charles Schwab’s challenge before winning the second BMW – from the Fedexcup qualifiers.

He appeared to the Team Usa team in the Presidents Cup after the season ended, which helped them beating the international team, and then started a strong start until 2025 with five of the best 20 years in the first seven beginnings.

Bradley followed the eighth place in the PGA championship with another strong show in the Memorial Championship, before the completion of the Traverels Championship, I saw him from three behind with four holes to play to kidnap one victory.

What did Bradley previously say about playing?

Bradley was within the 20 best in the world when he was appointed, which made him secure the location of the Rider Cup as a player always likely, although he previously insisted that it would be just considered if he was automatically qualified.

“It will be difficult for me to make this team, but if I make the team, I will play.” “I do not see myself choosing a leader. But I will be proud to be the captain.”

He repeated his position before the PGA championship, despite a strong start for this year, adding: “So I don’t think about me as a player at this stage. If I reach the end of the year while I am in that conversation, I will change that.

How did the travelers championship win things?

Bradley canceled a three-shot deficit in a wonderful final tour of the travelers championship, where the final opening bird-along with a closed ghost of Tommy Fleetwood-criticized one victory.

The PGA Tour signing event won the Ryder CUP and transferred to the top eight places to the ninth place in the classification, leaving him slightly more than 2150 points behind Justin Thomas in sixth place to qualify automatic.

It was also raised by Bradley’s success to the 7th world – the highest global rating in his career – and within the best 10 Fedexcup standings heading to the last two months of the PGA Tour season.

What did Bradley have said since then?

Bradley was reflected in the possibility of being a playing leader with the media after his victory, admitting that his eighth victory in the PGA round – and the fourth in many years – opens the door to play “and third appears in the Rider Cup.

“My whole life every year I was wanting to play in the Rider Cup, and then this would be the first year that I may not have wanted,” he said.

“I just wanted to be the captain, of course, as you know, that’s what happens. But we will see. I will do what I think is the best for the team.”

Is it still automatically qualified?

Bradley is characterized by Rocket Classic and will get opportunities to gain more points in Open and in FedExcup qualifiers, along with any other events in the PGA tour he chooses to clarify before the end of the rehabilitation period.

Even if Bradley fails to storm the first six places in the Rider Cup classifications to qualify automatically, he will certainly remain as one of the 12 most American players in the world rankings before announcing the choices of his captain after the tour championship.

How common is the captain of the Ryder Cup?

If Bradley is qualified to reach the Rider Cup as a player, or choose himself as a captain, he will be the first to play the player’s captain since Palmer achieved the victory of the Team Usa 23-9 team over Great Britain and Ireland in 1963.

The team captain Wales Days was the captain of Great Britain and Ireland on multiple occasions, the last of which was in 1961, while Walter Hagin held both to the United States during the first five editions of the competition of each two years.

There has been no captain playing in the Rider Cup since then, although Tiger Woods has played a double role for the Team Usa team during his victory in the 2019 President Cup over the international team in Melbourne.

Can play and leadership be successful?

Bradley revealed the possibility of playing a playing playing for the first time when PgA of America called him last June to play the Ryder Cup for 2025, while discussing the double round in the background throughout the event period for this year.

Bradley admitted on Sunday: “They (PGA Of America) had known that this was a possibility and that we would have things in force for that (playing the captain).” “If Tiger (Woods), Phil (Mickelson) or these men got a leader of my life, they would have done it in the same way.”

Caddy John Wood was named in the former TEAM Tour of Team Usa before the captain was named, a role designed to take over some administrative responsibilities, while the Web Simpson and Brandt Sneker, Kisen Kissner and Jim Ferik were called a deputy.

Bradley said at the “General Celebration” last October: “Every deputy leader of the team that he chose will know that this (additional roles) is a possibility.” “They will know what is going on this way. I think all of my guns will be more than able to do so.”

The Rider Cup role in Bradley has not been officially completed, although playing on both playing and increasingly appears. Either the outcome is divided and put more pressure on it – from a crowd of people in New York – to achieve victory at home.

When does the Ryder Cup live on Sky Sports?

Sky SPORTS will remain the home of the Ryder Cup, with all the three days of the 2025 version exclusively from 26-28 September. Broadcast.