Ryder Cup: Keegan Bradley ‘heartbroken’ by Group USA defeat however open to future captaincy regardless of post-Bethpage struggles

Keegan Bradley insists he would welcome the chance to captain Group USA once more on the subsequent Ryder Cup, regardless of nonetheless being “heartbroken” from their residence loss to Group Europe at Bethpage Black.

Bradley elected in opposition to naming himself as a enjoying captain for final 12 months’s contest at New York, the place he grew to become the primary captain – from both workforce – to endure a house Ryder Cup workforce defeat since 2012.

The 39-year-old former main champion has missed the reduce thrice in his 5 begins this 12 months and completed no increased than tied-Twenty ninth, with Bradley struggling to regulate again to only having to consider enjoying duties somewhat than captaincy.

“Listen, it [post-Ryder Cup] has been a little difficult,” Bradley informed reporters after a second-round 66 at The Gamers, an 11-shot enchancment on his opening spherical. “I’m still heartbroken from the Ryder Cup.

“Making an attempt my greatest to separate myself and transfer on, nevertheless it’s exhausting. I give it some thought so much. I take into consideration the fellows so much and I am nonetheless within the strategy of getting previous all that.”

Bradley was nonetheless enjoying repeatedly on the PGA Tour within the build-up to the Ryder Cup, successful the Vacationers Championship final June and reaching the season-ending Tour Championship to extend the opportunity of being the primary playing-captain since Arnold Palmer in 1963.

Captaincy got here two years after narrowly lacking out on a captain’s decide for the 2023 defeat in Rome, with Bradley now having to refocus on the problem of qualifying for future Group USA sides.

“Unless you’re a captain of the Ryder Cup team you just have no idea what goes into it and the emotional toll that it takes on you,” Bradley added. “I think like a lot of guys that do it, they’re basically done playing.

“I am the primary particular person to should form of take care of this, to get again on the market, attempt to be among the best gamers on the planet and make the subsequent workforce.

“I’m still navigating how to do that, but it’s on my mind.”

‘It is less than me’ – might Bradley captain once more?

Luke Donald has masterminded Group Europe to back-to-back victories and has been handed a historic third stint for the 2027 contest at Adare Manor, the place he’ll look to turn out to be the primary captain ever to win three consecutive Ryder Cups.

The PGA of America has but to announce who will lead Group USA within the centenary version, with Tiger Woods the favorite to succeed Bradley however but to verify whether or not he’s within the position.

“I mean, yeah, sure, I would [want to captain again], but I don’t know if that’s in the cards,” Bradley admitted. “I think any Ryder Cup captain that loses would like to do it again, I would imagine, but that’s not up to me.

“I feel that the distraction of me enjoying…perhaps enjoying is not actually what the place is about. So who is aware of sooner or later.”

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