Bradley, the American captain for this September’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, lit a fire that is going to burn bright and strong on both sides of the pond.
While Rahm hopes to be on the European team in September, he also made an impassioned plea for his countryman and fellow LIV golfer, Sergio Garcia, to be at Bethpage as well.
His eponymous website hails him as “more than a champion.” Which is fair if you pay due deference to the nearly 40 tournament victories, the more than nine years he has spent ranked inside the world’s top 10 and take even the briefest glance at Sergio Garcia’s record as part of 10 Ryder Cup teams. Read more…
One by one, in the wake of their opening rounds at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship, leading European players lined up to verbalise their own attitudes regarding playing for pay or playing for pride.
Following the Golf Twitter firestorm created earlier this week by the exorbitant Ryder Cup ticket prices, there was a sentiment shared by a handful of folks that the PGA of America would see the firestorm and subsequently “make it right.”
Two days before the Betfred British Masters kicks off qualifying for the Old World side at the four-time Ryder Cup site, the captain was understandably in “wait and see” mode.