Ryder Cup 2025: How Keegan Bradley's debate on the role of Captain Player Captain helped Team USA find a form before Bethpage Black | News Golf

The United States will seek to continue domination at home during the Ryder Cup next month, but the debate around the role of Captain Keegan Bradley helped the American team find a form before Bethpage Black?

Bradley will support the United States team in the highly anticipated competition, Live from September 26 to 28 on Sky SportsWhere the hosts will seek to find the trophy after Luke Donald led Europe to victory in Rome in 2023.

The story throughout the qualification campaign was dominated on the question of whether Bradley would win a place of automatic qualification and would become the first game captain from Arnold Palmer in 1963, then if he would be called as a choice to play a double role.

Bradley won the Travelers championship in June and continued to show its form throughout the summer, displaying the top-20 in the last two events of the Fedexcup qualifiers, always leaving him “uncertain” of his decision a few days before announcing the choices of his captain.

The discussion left uncertainty about how any decision could have an impact on the United States team, although the former European Captain of the Ryder Cup, Paul McGinley,-a strategic advisor to Donald's team, thinks that this may have helped to galvanize many Bradley players.

“I think it is certainly a madness on our [European] Side if we think that America is a little ruffled, they are everywhere, they do not know what they are doing and they do not know if they come or come “, McGinley said to the golf podcast Sky Sports.

“I think it is a very, very dangerous territory there and I can tell you with certainty that it is not far from the mentality of Luke Donald and what he gives to the players. We are not going to underestimate the extent of this challenge.

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“It is an American team that has found some form in the past four weeks. Four or five weeks ago, we [Team Europe] were much more dizzy than we are now in terms of the place where the American team was.

“They are in a better place as they were four or five weeks ago and I think there is a little energy about them, because of this debate. This gives them energy, it gives fuel, it creates a lot of debates in the media and it creates a lot of debate in the audience.

“It's all positive when you play at home, because you want to stir up fire and want people's emotions to a high.

Patrick Cantlay improved his chances of choosing a captain with a finish tinging in the Tour championship, where Cameron Young – who won a revolutionary victory at the Wyndham Championship – won a part of the fourth and was one of the nine American players in the Top 11.

According to the possibility of a game role for Bradley, disturbed the potential players of the American team, McGinley added: “There is no proof of thinking that it was. Look at the players who really became in good shape and pushed above the line in the last four or five weeks.

“He has guys like Young and [Sam] Burns. Last week, we saw Cantlay, so [Ben] Griffin has played well enough, so you have a number of players who have made a dashboard for the line and do not seem to be distracted. “”

Team Europe will retain most of its programming of its victory in 2023 in Rome, with Donald seeking to become the first captain to win the successive Ryder Cups and to lead them to a first victory outside since the “ Miracle at Medinah '' in 2012.

“We look at this very differently Ryder Cup that we have never done before in terms of game outside and the preparation leaves no stone,” insisted McGinley. “We know the magnitude and difficulty of what we face in New York.

“America will be strong – do not let anyone make you believe that they will not be strong. They will be nothing other than strong. It is a very patriotic crowd. It is a very patriotic captain. It will be a very noisy atmosphere.

“It's New York's crowd to their best and there is nothing more sure than it will be very, very difficult, so we have to be absolutely on our game. We are trying to come outside very differently from any outdoor game that we have ever had before.”

Listen to Paul McGinley's full interview on the latest edition of the Podcast Sky Sports Golf, organized every week by Jamie Weir. Subscribe now on Apple podcasts,, Spotify Or Skullwhile vodcast editions can be found on the Sky Sports Golf YouTube Channe.

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