Playing captain

August 14th, 2025

Rory McIlroy explains why he turned down chance to be Ryder Cup playing captain with Keegan Bradley’s decision looming

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June 24th, 2025

Ryder Cup 2025: Is Keegan Bradley as playing captain a nightmare scenario or a big deal about nothing?

Golf Digest writers Shane Ryan and Joel Beall examine whether Bradley’s latest win has created the US team’s biggest headache – or handed them their secret weapon.

December 14th, 2019

OPINION: Why the playing-captain role in team golf is (or should be) dead and buried

Team USA may not have lost anything as a result of Tiger’s act of selflessness, but the Presidents Cup as a spectacle most certainly did.

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BMW Championship - 2025

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Robert MacIntyre	-14	F	2
2	Scottie Scheffler	-9	F	2
3	Ludvig Åberg	-8	F	2
4	Hideki Matsuyama	-7	F	2
T5	Tommy Fleetwood	-6	F	2
T5	Michael Kim	-6	F	2
T5	Maverick McNealy	-6	F	2
T8	Harry Hall	-5	F	2
T8	Sam Burns	-5	F	2
T8	Viktor Hovland	-5	F	2
11	Rory McIlroy	-4	F	2
T12	Russell Henley	-3	F	2
T12	Rickie Fowler	-3	F	2
T14	Taylor Pendrith	-2	F	2
T14	Harris English	-2	F	2
T16	Jason Day	-1	F	2
T16	Denny McCarthy	-1	F	2
T16	J.J. Spaun	-1	F	2
T16	Shane Lowry	-1	F	2
T16	Patrick Cantlay	-1	F	2
T16	Ben Griffin	-1	F	2
T22	S.W. Kim	E	F	2
T22	Daniel Berger	E	F	2
T22	Jacob Bridgeman	E	F	2
T22	Cam Young	E	F	2
T22	Kurt Kitayama	E	F	2
T22	Nick Taylor	E	F	2
T28	Matt Fitzpatrick	+1	F	2
T28	Corey Conners	+1	F	2
T28	Justin Rose	+1	F	2
T28	Brian Harman	+1	F	2
T32	Bud Cauley	+2	F	2
T32	Keegan Bradley	+2	F	2
T34	Chris Gotterup	+3	F	2
T34	Tom Hoge	+3	F	2
T34	J.T. Poston	+3	F	2
T37	Collin Morikawa	+4	F	2
T37	Justin Thomas	+4	F	2
T37	Xander Schauffele	+4	F	2
T37	Akshay Bhatia	+4	F	2
T41	Sungjae Im	+6	F	2
T41	Jhonattan Vegas	+6	F	2
T43	Thomas Detry	+7	F	2
T43	Ryan Fox	+7	F	2
T45	Brian Campbell	+8	F	2
T45	Lucas Glover	+8	F	2
T45	Sam Stevens	+8	F	2
T45	Andrew Novak	+8	F	2
49	Ryan Gerard	+11	F	2

Playing captain

Rory McIlroy explains why he turned down chance to be Ryder Cup playing captain with Keegan Bradley’s decision looming

Ryder Cup 2025: Is Keegan Bradley as playing captain a nightmare scenario or a big deal about nothing?

OPINION: Why the playing-captain role in team golf is (or should be) dead and buried

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