Jim Furyk says why Keegan Bradley was put in a bad position as Ryder Cup captain by PGA of America

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Last year’s Ryder Cup could not have gone much worse for Team USA, and new captain Jim Furyk is facing the music. Furyk, who was one of Keegan Bradley’s Vice Captains at Bethpage Black, has been appointed as the captain for Adare Manor next year. It will be Furyk’s second time as captain after he led the team to a loss in Paris in 2018.

Bradley’s captaincy was a mess from start to finish. He was a shock appointment, and then played well enough to raise questions about whether he could be playing captain in New York. After electing not to select himself, Bradley chose the statistical worst pairing two days in a row in Collin Morikawa and Harris English, as Team USA lost on home soil.

But according to Furyk, the PGA of America put Bradley on the back foot from the very beginning of his tenure. Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Why Jim Furyk thinks Keegan Bradley was put in a difficult position as Ryder Cup captain Many believe that Bradley’s appointment was an attempt at building some positive PR after he was shockingly left out of Zach Johnson’s team in 2023. He had no Vice Captaincy experience, and he wasn’t left with much time to prepare for Bethpage.

Bradley was announced as captain in July, a little over a year before the Ryder Cup. Meanwhile, it was confirmed that Donald would be running it back as captain in November the year before. He’d already had the experience of Rome under his belt, so Bradley had a massive amount of catching up to do.