Keegan Bradley doesn’t really feel he’s a part of golf’s inside circle.
And that’s why it’s further painful when he discovered he had not been chosen Tuesday with the six captain’s picks for the U.S. Ryder Cup workforce.
“I’ve at all times been an outsider within the sport however I’ve tried to get nearer to the fellows I believed can be on the workforce,” Bradley advised Golf Channel’s Tom Lewis.
“I really feel like shifting ahead I’m going to should robotically qualify for the Ryder Cup … I’m pulling for the U.S. workforce.”
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Bradley didn’t robotically qualify for the workforce by falling exterior of the highest six on the factors record along with his Eleventh-place end.
That put his destiny in U.S. captain Zach Johnson’s arms.
Bradley definitely made a strong case for inclusion with two event wins, together with a record-setting efficiency on the Vacationers Championship in Hartford, Conn., in June.
The number of Thomas raised eyebrows as he has been in poor type of late — and had some questioning if it was a choice solely primarily based on his shut ties to different members of the workforce.
Bradley did reward Thomas, although.
“I believe JT is a generational expertise,” Bradley mentioned to Lewis of Thomas.
It didn’t matter.
Johnson opted for Brooks Koepka, Jordan Spieth, Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler and Sam Burns.
Bradley knew as soon as he picked up the telephone he hadn’t made the reduce.
“I might inform by the response from Zach after I answered the telephone that I wasn’t on the workforce,” Bradley mentioned. “I’m tremendous bummed out. I believed I put collectively a very good 12 months with two wins together with in Hartford over an elite discipline. I’m pleased with what I’ve carried out.”
Bradley beforehand participated within the 2012 and 2014 Ryder Cups.
This 12 months’s Cup will happen from Sept. 29 by Oct. 1 at Marco Simone Golf & Nation Membership in Rome, Italy.
The People purpose for his or her second straight win and third in 4 years.