JULIUS MASON: Good afternoon, everybody, and thanks very a lot for becoming a member of us right this moment for the 2025 United States Ryder Cup captain announcement. The forty fifth version of one of many world’s most original and particular competitions will happen at Bethpage State Park in roughly 13 months. And right this moment we’re happy to formally welcome the one that will lead the 2025 United States Ryder Cup crew. And for that I wish to say good morning to the director of golf on the Nation Membership of Lansing in Michigan, the president of the PGA of America, Mr. John Lindert.(Applause.)JOHN LINDERT: Thanks, Julius, and good morning to everyone. It is nice being right here in New York. Since 1927 we have hosted this occasion at some very historic websites, Rome, Paris, Chicago, Boston. In 2025 we’re coming right here to New York Metropolis and Bethpage Black, and it’s trending to be some of the spectacular occasions within the historical past of the PGA of America, and I’m actually wanting ahead to being right here subsequent September.JULIUS MASON: John, thanks very a lot. Talking of Bethpage Black it is time to say good day to our 2025 United States Ryder Cup captain.JOHN LINDERT: It’s.So, for over 100 years the position of the Ryder Cup captain is without doubt one of the most prestigious titles in our sport. I am right here to announce our Ryder Cup captain on behalf of the over 30,000 PGA professionals throughout the nation.Let me undergo a bit of little bit of his historical past. So, he has had eight profession worldwide victories, together with the 2011 PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Membership. He performed on the 2012 and 2014 Ryder Cup groups, has a 4 & 3 report. He is presently ranked 19 on this planet. He’s the son of PGA of America skilled Mark Bradley, who’s the instructing skilled at Jackson Gap Golf and Tennis Membership in Wyoming. He is additionally a standout star from St. John’s College, and he was coached by Frank Darby, who can be a PGA of America member.So now it is my honor and my pleasure to announce the 2025 PGA Ryder Cup captain, Keegan Bradley.(Applause.)JULIUS MASON: Congratulations, Keegan, on being named the thirty first United States Ryder Cup captain. You have been sitting on this information for a few weeks now, are you able to share with us right this moment proper now your feelings formally of getting this info?KEEGAN BRADLEY: Nicely, I am extremely humbled and honored to be the Ryder Cup captain for Crew USA. Being on a Ryder Cup crew adjustments your life ceaselessly. Being within the room with these guys and feeling the acute strain of this event will change you. The dream of being a Ryder Cup captain is one thing that quite a lot of us do not even take into consideration as a result of it is so, such a prestigious honor, and I by no means knew if I might get this chance. I all the time felt like that is one thing that I might like to do and be capable to deal with, and I am so honored to have the ability to be the chief of this crew and going to Bethpage to win the Ryder Cup again for America.JULIUS MASON: So, Keegan, take us a bit of inside right here. Inform us the place you have been whenever you acquired the decision and who you bought the decision from.KEEGAN BRADLEY: So, I had simply completed three weeks on the highway. I drove house from Hartford with a 3 and a six 12 months previous, three-hour drive. So we have been again house, we lastly acquired them all the way down to mattress, and I sat in my chair and I lastly had a while to chill out. I had three weeks off.And the telephone rang and it was Seth Waugh. I answered it and he had some fairly unbelievable information that I had no clue was coming. Zach Johnson is the one who informed me that I used to be going to be the Ryder Cup captain in 2025. I believe it simply speaks to what sort of man and individual Zach Johnson is. I’ve simply such respect for him. He was one in all my idols that I appeared as much as once I first got here out on the TOUR, and I really feel horrible for what he is needed to undergo, and I am so honored that he was the one who known as me. I will characterize this determination to the perfect of my skills and I am actually excited.JULIUS MASON: Let’s return to 2012 at Medinah Nation Membership simply exterior of Chicago on your very, very first Ryder Cup. You partnered with Phil Mickelson and also you received your first three matches out of the blocks. Inform us what you keep in mind about that journey.KEEGAN BRADLEY: To be trustworthy with you, what I keep in mind most is the enjoyable that we had on the course and simply the getting on the primary tee and form of simply being giddy to go play. Realizing we have been going to win. I keep in mind the camaraderie of the crew. I keep in mind going to our first Ryder Cup dinner, the TOUR Championship, and having simply the 12 guys, and searching across the desk and seeing Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk and Phil Mickelson and being in full awe that I used to be on this room, and that, two, three years earlier I used to be enjoying the mini-tours and now impulsively I am representing the US within the Ryder Cup.I keep in mind considering to myself, you’ll be able to by no means miss any extra of those ever once more. That is — you hear a lot concerning the Ryder Cup after which whenever you expertise it, it is a lot extra. I simply liked each second of it. I liked being within the crew room, I liked using to the course with the fellows, I liked successful our matches and going out and cheering. I liked each second of it.JULIUS MASON: Excellent. So, by the lens of Netflix, the world form of noticed your disappointment whenever you weren’t chosen as captain’s choose for the 2023 United States Ryder Cup crew, but moments later you and your loved ones are sitting within the consolation of your front room cheering on Crew USA. Assist us perceive that second and who you might be as a person and the make-up of who you might be.KEEGAN BRADLEY: So, that second was actual. I used to be crushed. It took us awhile to recover from that. Our complete household. We have been devastated. However I am American, I root for the Individuals to win the Ryder Cup. I watch, whether or not I am enjoying or whether or not I am not. I do know all the fellows on the crew and I bleed pink, white and blue. I used to be thrilled to have the ability to watch these guys and I used to be pulling for ’em and I, it was a bizarre feeling realizing that I may have been there and perhaps helped the crew, however I do know what a tricky determination Zach had. Choosing the fellows that he picked have been nice selections. I might have accomplished the identical. I’ve nothing however respect for all these guys and what they do on the course and off the course.Now, sitting right here because the captain, I form of have a distinct perspective of what he was going by. As a result of I’ve solely been the captain for 2 weeks and I am discovering myself staring on the ceiling at 2 a.m. eager about each single state of affairs. So, I’ve a distinct perspective now, and I’ve nothing however admiration and respect for Zach Johnson.JULIUS MASON: John talked about that your dad, Mark, is right here, and also you truly fell in love with the Ryder Cup at age 13 when dad took you over to the Nation Membership in Brookline, proper? Discuss that a bit of bit.KEEGAN BRADLEY: Yeah, in order that second modified my life ceaselessly. We went on Friday and Sunday and I could not consider that I used to be at a golf event that felt like this. It felt like going to a Patriots recreation or a sporting occasion that was loud and raucous. So, quick ahead to Sunday, I used to be on my dad’s shoulders on the 18th inexperienced and I may see by to the Justin Leonard putt. I could not precisely see it, however I noticed him putt, I heard this large roar, and I noticed all of the pink shirts run after him. And everybody within the crowd was attempting to determine what occurred.After which once more quick ahead to the U.S. successful the Ryder Cup, the followers all ran out on the 18th inexperienced. I used to be 13 years previous, I wished to expire on the inexperienced. So I mentioned to my dad, how do I — we did not have — no cell telephones then. And I mentioned, I actually need to run on the market. And he goes, All proper, I will stand by this crooked tree right here, and also you run on the market and I am going to meet you proper right here. And I believe now for my son I might say, You are not working on the market (laughing). And I keep in mind working out, I keep in mind seeing David Duval, I keep in mind seeing my heroes, and, you understand, I am taking a look at these guys like, you understand, they’re giants, they’re tremendous heroes. It was a second that actually modified my life ceaselessly. I cherished being there. The power of the event and the fervour of watching the fellows play and seeing Michael Jordan stroll the fairways there, simply was a second in my {golfing} life that altered all the things.JULIUS MASON: You performed golf at St. John’s College. There is a rumor that you’d skip lessons to go over together with your teammates to Bethpage to play. True or false.KEEGAN BRADLEY: Nicely, my mother’s right here, you should not be telling her that (laughing).Yeah, we have been fortunate sufficient to — by the best way, my total St. John’s golf crew is right here, which implies lots to me. We’d get to play Bethpage Black on Mondays when it was closed. I promised Coach Darby and Craig Currier, who was the superintendent, I might cease telling this story, however why not inform it yet one more time for the cameras.So we might play the within loop. So we might park on the upkeep space and we’d play 3 by 14. And we have been informed explicitly to by no means cross the highway. And so my senior 12 months I used to be enjoying with George, who’s right here, George Zolotas, and we have been identical to, We’re going over, screw it. So we, you understand, think about you are in school and also you’re taking a look at 15 by 18 at Bethpage Black and you’ll’t play it. It was brutal. So we did it. And we acquired in a lot bother. They known as the police. Coach Darby wasn’t completely satisfied, however we did it and it was a terrific reminiscence of the place.JULIUS MASON: Very good. Lastly, earlier than we go to Q&A, I wish to name your consideration to one thing that you simply posted a really very long time in the past. It reads, That is my suitcase from the 2012 Ryder Cup that I have not opened since that Sunday. I promised myself I would not open it till I received a Ryder Cup. That week modified my perspective on golf ceaselessly. The Ryder Cup all of the sudden turned essential to me.What moved you to do this, make that publish, and the place did the entire thought come from?KEEGAN BRADLEY: Nicely, we — the 2012 Ryder Cup is such a wierd feeling for me. As a result of for on daily basis however the final day it was my fondest reminiscences on a golf course. Sunday was the worst day on the golf course and one of many worse days of my life. I acquired house and I stored staring on the suitcase and I could not open it, as a result of it was so, it was simply, I used to be so unhappy and, you understand, the stuff contained in the suitcase was simply going to make it worse.So I put it off, I put it off, after which I stored taking a look at it and it was simply, the reminiscences inside there have been so excessive on each side that I made a decision, I will wait, I am not going to open this up till I’ve received a Ryder Cup. And quick ahead a decade, it is nonetheless in my home and hopefully some day I am going to get to open it.JULIUS MASON: That was 13 years in the past. Do you’ve gotten any thought what’s inside that bag?KEEGAN BRADLEY: I’ve some thought. There’s quite a lot of cool stuff in there. I hope to open it some day. The Ryder Cup is so necessary to the sport of golf, but in addition to us gamers, particularly when you performed in it and also you understand the significance of what goes on that week. It adjustments your perspective on what’s necessary within the recreation and it adjustments the best way you might be as a participant, since you want, you’ll want to be in these rooms after you play in a single. And shedding Ryder Cups is absolutely, actually robust. I had this thought in my head that I used to be going to play in Ryder Cups my complete profession, and, you understand, so, you understand, my message to the fellows is all the time, be sure to deal with this prefer it could possibly be your final one, deal with this match, deal with this level as if that is your final level, as a result of it is that necessary. You by no means know when your subsequent shot goes to be to be on this room, attempt to win this trophy, and the magnitude of it’s heavy.JULIUS MASON: Excellent. Thanks, Keegan. Girls and gents, we’ll open the ground and our Zoom requires questions proper now.Q. There is no query about your ardour about this occasion, what it means to you, you’ve got spoken lots about that previously, we heard some remarks alongside these traces simply now. I believe anyone who is likely to be skeptical of this determination goes to level to your lack of expertise, having performed in solely two Ryder Cups, no captaincies. What would you say to someone who’s form of elevating their eyebrows and questioning whether or not you are finest fitted to this job?KEEGAN BRADLEY: I will say I will take a recent take a look at vice captains, they are going to be lots youthful, nearer to enjoying. I believe that I will be on the market with the fellows. I will be enjoying in the identical tournaments they are going to be enjoying in. I will be enjoying in majors with them. I will be enjoying week-to-week, I will be alongside these guys within the locker room, apply rounds, dinner. Versus previously with Ryder Cup they acquired to fly in, they acquired to schedule all these items and I will have a 12 months of being with the fellows as a peer. And one factor that’s necessary to me is I need to play on the crew. I really feel as if I am nonetheless within the prime of my profession and may make this crew. So, you understand, it is a terrific honor that my friends selected me to do that, and, you understand, I haven’t got the expertise that quite a lot of the opposite captains had, however I do know these guys very well, I am related to those guys and I see ’em week-to-week.Q. Simply to comply with on, we’re awhile away from you having to make choices on captain’s picks, clearly lots’s going to occur between every now and then together with your individual type, your individual recreation. But when it will get to some extent the place you are on the fence as you have been final 12 months, perhaps you may take us by how you are going to work by that call course of, and in addition whether or not what occurred final 12 months, is that going to paint or inform your opinion in any respect about whether or not you will give your self a shot subsequent 12 months?KEEGAN BRADLEY: No, I’ll both make the crew on factors — I do not see myself choosing — I am not going to choose myself. The one approach that might occur is that if the crew was insisting on it, however even when they did, I do not see that occuring. I need to make the crew on factors, in any other case I will be the captain.Q. Tiger Woods was the heavy favourite to obtain this captaincy. Realizing that, what was your response to that decision from Zach and have you ever spoken to Tiger?KEEGAN BRADLEY: I used to be — I do not assume I am going to ever be extra stunned of something in my total life. I used to be, I had no thought. It took awhile for it to sink in. I wasn’t absolutely snug with a few of the those who have been handed over. I’ve quite a lot of respect for the those who got here earlier than me and those who should be on this place, in order that was a heavy thought and second.I’ve spoken to Tiger a bunch. I spoke to him this morning on the telephone. He is been very useful. Tiger has all the time been actually useful to me. He is a terrific voice to listen to and he is been nothing however — he is been reaching out to me serving to me, which has been superb.Q. You talked about a few of the individuals who have been handed over. Do you assume your choice as Ryder Cup captain marks form of a shift in the US’ Ryder Cup management technique?KEEGAN BRADLEY: I imply, I do. I do not assume that that is one thing that the place the U.S. crew wants to love completely re-invent the wheel right here. I believe that generally you go to tournaments and you do not play nicely. I believe that the fellows would say that is what occurred in Rome. I need to — all I am seeking to do is put these guys in the perfect place to play their finest. I believe one of many issues that’s fascinating can be to have a few of the vice captains which are nonetheless near the PGA TOUR and play and know the fellows, I believe that might be tremendous useful. Once more, the captain would not play, so I acquired to do my finest to place these guys in the perfect spot that they will to play their finest.JULIUS MASON: Talking of Tiger, we’ve got an announcement from Tiger that we’re very completely satisfied to share with you proper now. He says, With my new duties to the TOUR and time commitments concerned I felt I might not be capable to commit the time to Crew USA and the gamers required as a captain. That doesn’t imply I would not need to captain a crew sooner or later. If/once I really feel it’s the proper time, I’ll put my hat within the ring for this committee to resolve.Seeing no different query — oh, one different query over right here.Q. Given your expertise with the Ryder Cup and the best way that you simply adopted it, exterior of expertise and talent, what do you assume are a few of the intangible qualities that make for a terrific Ryder Cup crew member?KEEGAN BRADLEY: So, I believe the largest factor is that week all coming collectively as a crew. It is very tough — us golfers are people and we rejoice wins by ourselves, losses by ourselves, and that week is about coming collectively as a crew, doing what’s finest for the crew. Whether or not that is will partnering up with someone a veteran to a youthful man, that is what occurred to me with Phil, and that helped me with not solely the Ryder Cup however the remainder of my profession. I believe that the fellows should be keen to place the crew first, and generally that is tough. I believe that this group of men does a terrific job of that. One of many issues that I really like about this group, and I am not ashamed to say that as an older participant that is been on the market longer, I look as much as these guys, they genuinely love one another and so they’re pals. After I got here out on TOUR I had a a lot totally different outlook. I used to be, I checked out everyone because the enemy and I made everyone out to be in opposition to me and I actually remorse that. I really like this era of how they’ve gone about their careers and their friendships and it makes the life on TOUR lots higher. That is what I like most about this group and I believe that is what would make them nice teammates.Q. Additionally, associated to your familiarity with the course, do you assume that Bethpage Black lends itself to choosing individuals who have a sure group of strengths of their recreation?KEEGAN BRADLEY: I do. I do. I believe that Bethpage additionally the followers are going to be our thirteenth crew member, and I believe that I’ve all the time been, I’ve all the time been underneath the impression that Bethpage is New York’s house course. Winged Foot and Shinnecock are superb programs, however you speak to an actual New Yorker, they brag about Bethpage. And I’ve all the time, in my thoughts, I’ve all the time considered Bethpage as New York’s house course, which is now America’s house course, and I need the followers to deal with it that approach. They should defend this course in the suitable, applicable approach, however that is the place the followers and the New Yorkers want to return out and help this crew. And the fellows on the crew which are on the market, like what you have been speaking about, they are going to embrace that and they are going to, these New York followers are going to be pulling for us laborious and I really like that.JULIUS MASON: We’ll take a step away from NASDAQ actual fast and take some Zoom calls.Q. Couple issues. One, clearly what occurred on Netflix has to affect anyone that was watching it and had some ideas about you and the way you can be as a captain. In Rome, Netflix wasn’t a part of the method regarding the crew room. My query can be for you on this case, would you need Netflix within the crew room?KEEGAN BRADLEY: So, I had an unbelievable expertise with Netflix. They have been nice to me. It was an enormous determination to place my household on TV. That is not a choice that is for everyone. And I’ve solely been captain for 2 weeks, I’ve not broached this topic, I’ve not even considered it, I do not know who’s going to be on the crew, but it surely’s undoubtedly a choice that is going to be primarily based on what’s finest for the crew. It is not one thing that’s for everyone, it is a nerve wracking course of to undergo being filmed on a regular basis and that is one thing that I am going to need to cross in a while.Q. The opposite factor is, is the choice course of is normally one thing that is put collectively together with your self and I am assuming people on the PGA of America, factors, what number of factors there are, the place they get factors, so forth and so forth. How a lot are you going to try the system that is in place presently and take a look at probably altering that, if in any respect?KEEGAN BRADLEY: I believe the purpose system is nice. I believe perhaps seeking to take including just a few extra automated spots, we have simply began to look into that. I believe the majors being most necessary, most factors, I believe that they’ve this beautiful discovered by now. We simply need the tournaments with the perfect fields and the largest occasions to have extra weight. As a result of whenever you get within the, underneath the gun on this event it is fairly intense, so that you want guys which are going to be prepared for that.Q. You mentioned that it was a really emotional determination and course of so that you can be on Netflix final 12 months and with the best way all the things went down. Do you are feeling in a approach like perhaps that helped you get this job?KEEGAN BRADLEY: I actually, you understand, in my coronary heart I might assume that it did not as a result of, you understand, that is such an enormous determination and I do not assume it will be ever primarily based on how somebody was portrayed on TV. I believe that the Ryder Cup committee has a really severe job, particularly with the occasion being at Bethpage in New York, in America, to decide that is finest for the crew. I could not think about that they’d resolve primarily based on how Netflix portrayed me in filming. With the Ryder Cup’s determination, I used to be very grateful and I might be very stunned if any of that went into that call.Q. A fast follow-up right here. We have been all so stunned once we first heard your title for this. What was the primary dialog you had with somebody about even the likelihood and what was your response once they reached out?KEEGAN BRADLEY: I did not have one dialog with anyone about this till I used to be informed I used to be the captain. I acquired a name from Seth and John and Zach and I had bother speaking — once they known as me I felt humorous after the decision as a result of I do not assume I reacted in the best way that they have been anticipating me to. I used to be in full shock. It was heavy. Like I mentioned earlier, I used to be a bit of bit uncomfortable with a few of the guys, you understand, my idols, that have been appeared over for this place and I wanted a second to determine that out. Once more, I do not assume I am going to ever have a much bigger shock in my life, however one thing Seth mentioned to me was, You recognize, your quantity was known as, it is time so that you can step up. When he informed me that I form of, it form of hit me, you understand, that it is a heavy job and it is a group of those who trusted me on this and it is time to step as much as the plate and be the captain of this crew.Q. Are you planning on assembling the main candidates for the crew for just a few apply periods to see who performs collectively finest?KEEGAN BRADLEY: Nicely, I believe I might like to convey the boys up for a apply spherical at Bethpage, not a lot to get to study the course, extra of I simply assume when from my private experiences of the Ryder Cup it was actually nice when the 12 guys have been collectively for the primary time. There’s so many conferences main as much as it the place there’s 20 and even 30 or, you understand, 15, 18 guys and you understand that this is not how the crew’s going to look. And when the crew’s finalized and also you do issues as a crew, there is a totally different really feel. I might actually love to do this with the crew. I believe that that is, I believe that that could possibly be an necessary journey.Q. You referred to Tiger a minute in the past. Have you ever mentioned with him or do you intend to debate with him probably about being a vice captain, clearly that would not take as a lot day without work his plate as being the captain would have. Simply as a comply with, past Tiger, are you eager about, probably, some out-of-the-box assistant captains that perhaps may not even be instantly concerned on the PGA TOUR?KEEGAN BRADLEY: Positively concerned within the PGA TOUR. What’s personally necessary to me is I wish to have the vice captains arrange the way forward for the Ryder Cup to captain the USA. I believe that is necessary.Because it involves Tiger, I’ve informed him he will be as concerned as he desires to be. I have not, we have not talked about vice captains, I have not talked to vice captains with actually anyone. So we, as gamers, all of us look as much as Tiger and his opinion means lots to us. Being in crew rooms with Tiger, the general public would not understand how necessary that is to him. It is all the things. He lives and breathes this occasion. I believe it reveals you ways a lot he cares by not, by turning this place down, as a result of he did not really feel like he may put in what he wanted to do with all of his duties with what is going on on with the TOUR. I have been grateful — earlier than I accepted this job I wanted to speak to Tiger and I wished to ensure I — I wished to listen to from him. We had a terrific dialog. I actually want his enter.Q. You are such a fan of the Ryder Cup clearly, is there a captain in latest historical past who you admire and who you’re going to look to probably strategize subsequent fall?KEEGAN BRADLEY: Nicely, I believe the form of apparent selections are, I assumed Paul Azinger get higher actually did a terrific job. Steve Stricker lately with this sort of group of men. He did a terrific job. I believe they’d be two actually totally different types, however, you understand, one of many coolest issues that is occurred to me over the previous 24 hours is I’ve gotten over 300 textual content messages and my favorites have been from the previous captains which have texted me guys like Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite and Curtis Unusual. I have not gotten again to them as a result of I do not need to reply with only a thanks. Ben Crenshaw was captain at Brookline and to assume that they are texting me about being captain is fairly unbelievable. So these guys are all necessary and I plan to name each U.S. captain and form of choose their mind on what they thought they did proper and what they thought they did fallacious, whether or not they received or misplaced. So, I used to be in rooms with Davis Love, he was superb. I believe all of them have quite a lot of perception that even those that received I believe would have some perception on what they’d have accomplished in another way.Q. Simply questioning, how have you considered how you are going to handle all of the off-course duties that include being the captain over the subsequent 15 months, balanced together with your full-time PGA TOUR schedule.KEEGAN BRADLEY: Yeah, it will be lots. Like I mentioned, I nonetheless really feel like I am in my prime, I nonetheless need to make this crew. However I’ve John Wooden who’s the supervisor of Crew USA, which has by no means been a place for the U.S. Ryder Cup crew, and he is been in quite a lot of crew rooms, he is aware of all the fellows aren’t already has been an incredible assist. I will lean on my vice captains, and in addition a few of the older gamers that — I believe Davis Love and Fred {Couples} and all these guys which have been in so many crew rooms — I hope that they are going to be keen to assist me and I’ve lots of people which are round to assist me. A part of me thinks that is going to be a terrific distraction from enjoying on the TOUR and getting away from worrying about my private what is going on on on week-to-week tournaments. I look ahead to attending to know the youthful guys extra that simply have come out on TOUR. There’s a terrific group of younger gamers that I do not know that nicely that I am wanting ahead to studying extra about. Additionally speaking to, you understand, the studs of the American crew, Xander and Cantlay and Scottie Scheffler, Jordan and JT and all these guys, and their enthusiasm for this event could be very, very excessive and I look ahead to main these guys.Q. When did you get the telephone name, what number of days in the past was it, and for John, do you thoughts simply taking us by what the committee’s thought was on naming Keegan and someone who you had not interviewed, it appears like.KEEGAN BRADLEY: Yeah, I acquired the decision two weeks, two Sundays in the past. Proper at about 7 or 8 o’clock at night time. So I did not, we did not inform anyone for a very long time. I have not informed actually anyone till the final couple days.JOHN LINDERT: Yeah, and the method, we had a pair telephone calls and talked about a wide range of totally different attributes that we might need in our subsequent captain. As you begin to test off the containers, and you’ve got a PGA Champion, you’ve gotten someone who went to high school right here, is aware of the New York base, the fan base, could be very aware of Bethpage Black, is the son of a PGA member. There are quite a lot of containers that Keegan checked off and his enthusiasm for the Ryder Cup stood out above all the things else and we simply felt that that was the ah-ha second. When Keegan’s title was talked about it was all arms went up and we have been 100% behind it.Q. Questioning what you’ve got discovered about captain’s picks, how that can form your choices in your picks, and questioning, you mentioned that your captains you form of need near the TOUR, questioning if that guidelines out Phil Mickelson, someone that you simply performed nicely with or if perhaps he’ll be within the image of recommendation and comparable to you undergo this.KEEGAN BRADLEY: Yeah, because it involves captain’s picks, you’ll want to first discover out who’s going to be on the crew, clearly. Then, quite a lot of the captain’s picks I believe are necessary if they could be a dynamic participant to accomplice with a number of guys, of gamers that match the course structure of Bethpage Black, gamers that may deal with the strain that they are going to be underneath, the acute crowds, and we will look into analytics and the way they stack up on this.Because it involves Phil, I nonetheless have a terrific relationship with Phil, I do not assume he is curious about being a vice captain and, to be trustworthy with you, he is a, he is a captain some day, I believe. However I have not spoken to Phil, I do not need to communicate for him in any respect, however I believe he is fairly busy with what he is doing and I’ve nothing however nice issues to say about Phil and our reminiscences collectively and what we did on the Ryder Cup is absolutely my fondest reminiscences within the recreation.Q. John, questioning if the PGA’s taking a look at perhaps a break from captains being vice captains first or form of the method of believing that Keegan is in a position to do that with out first being a vice captain?JOHN LINDERT: I do not assume that, we did not actually talk about that form of process and whether or not we wished to maneuver away from a captain having a vice captain’s place prior. We have been actually looking for the perfect individual to steer Crew USA to a victory and it very merely got here down to at least one individual and that was Keegan. Keegan, as I mentioned, checked quite a lot of containers, and his ardour for the sport, his ardour for the Ryder Cup is clear and simply him being from round this space and the way the folks round right here, all of the textual content messages that we obtained about Keegan has been completely excellent, and the quantity of help that he is obtained from the group and from New York Metropolis is fabulous. I believe that each one went into the choice and we picked the perfect individual that we knew to choose and put all the things else apart.Q. How do you intend to deal with the LIV gamers? Will you be going to occasions to test these out?KEEGAN BRADLEY: I will have the 12 finest gamers on the crew. I do not care what, the place they play. So we’re, we’ve got a mission to win this event. I am not frightened concerning the LIV stuff. I need the perfect gamers on the crew. By the point we get to Bethpage in 2025 we’ve got no clue how the structure of the golf world’s going to be. Because it involves going to LIV occasions, if there’s guys which are on the perimeter, I am keen to do this. Once more, I’ve solely been the captain for 2 weeks and we’ve not actually even gotten the actual factors began, which begin subsequent 12 months. So I am going to have to attend and see how all the things shakes out and my greatest concern is having the perfect gamers on the crew.Q. Are you going to put on a Yankees or Giants hat in any respect?KEEGAN BRADLEY: (Laughing). The one — the fascinating factor about me is I did develop up in New England and I really like Boston sports activities, however I additionally love New York. Every part about New York is particular to me. Coming to high school right here was an enormous endeavor from a child that grew up in Vermont. And, you understand, residing in Queens and being a New Yorker, actually, for 4 years was a few of the finest occasions of my life. I am going round this metropolis, and I used to be telling my spouse, I simply find it irresistible right here, I really like the power, there’s one thing within the streets of New York. So I’ve very, very fond emotions of New York, not a lot the sports activities groups, however I’ve nothing however love for New York and I all the time have. A few of my finest reminiscences have occurred right here and, to be trustworthy with you, once I performed at Bethpage it is essentially the most help I’ve gotten, I get in the complete world, so it is fairly cool.Q. You were not chosen for Rome, are you able to, how do you envision telling somebody who’s on the bubble like your self that they are not going to be going to Bethpage?KEEGAN BRADLEY: I believe that I’ll simply be completely up entrance with them and simply say I am moving into one other route. And, you understand, I have been on the top of three of those calls the place I figured I used to be concerning the final man out. So I have been on the opposite finish of — I acquired picked at Gleneagles and that was particular — however I’ve additionally been on the top of those a number of occasions, so the best way I like it’s simply the details, and I will not, it will not be any fluff in it. I believe as a participant I all the time revered simply, like, we’re going one other route. I believe it will be tough, one thing that I by no means thought, you understand, you by no means assume that you’ll need to make these calls, however inevitably that is coming. So once more, that is one other factor I am going to need to ask different captains about as nicely.Q. One different query, on the Bethpage setup, the captains all the time play an instrumental position, Europeans have all the time favored principally excessive tough, slower greens, perhaps not as lengthy. Bethpage has been setup for U.S. Open, PGA Championships, how do you envision, although it is early on, the setup for Bethpage when it comes to the way you need to see it play out for one thing like a Ryder Cup match?KEEGAN BRADLEY: Yeah, so we’re going as much as Bethpage tomorrow to take a look at the course. I have not put a lot thought into how we will go about that. I believe that on the finish of the day we’re nonetheless enjoying golf and it doesn’t matter what the setup is, there’s going to be groups enjoying in opposition to one another. I am not too involved about how the course is ready up. I believe that we acquired 24 world-class gamers and you may go play, you understand, a superbly manicured course and one thing that is not and you are still enjoying the Ryder Cup. So, I am not utterly involved about that, however one thing that we’ll look into.Q. John, may you are taking us particularly by the time line from when Tiger informed you he was not going to take the job and also you had presumably only a matter of a pair weeks, like what was that decision-making course of like from the second that you simply knew it wasn’t going to be Tiger to determining, to form of getting the place we’re right this moment?JOHN LINDERT: Nicely, we did not have a timeline on it, per se. We knew we wished to announce a Ryder Cup captain earlier than the one-year-to-go occasion and we simply wished to get collectively — with the Ryder Cup committee you need to stability the schedules of the gamers and of the PGA of America representatives to attempt to get on a name collectively to attempt to talk about it. So the primary alternative that we needed to manage a name we did. We had a pleasant dialog about potential captains. With none actually timeline set we got here to a reasonably fast determination. This took place very quickly to get this accomplished in two weeks.Q. Did Keegan’s title floor in that first dialog and if that’s the case, who was form of lobbying hardest for him?JOHN LINDERT: There was no lobbying. When Keegan’s title was talked about it was a slam dunk.Q. Do you recall who talked about Keegan’s title first?JOHN LINDERT: I do not recall. We had a listing and we have been form of bouncing by the listing and we have been all wanting by the listing and Keegan’s title form of jumped out, and as quickly because it was talked about Keegan Bradley, it was, yeah, completely, 100%.Q. And this could have been like three or 4 weeks in the past, one thing like that?JOHN LINDERT: It was about two and a half weeks in the past. We did not sit on it very lengthy after we made the choice. We determined that we wanted to let Keegan know and so we acquired on a name with Keegan that Sunday. The dialog I consider was on a Wednesday.
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