Keegan Bradley may have become the first home captain to lose the Ryder Cup since 2012, but he has received the backing to do the job again in 2027 at Adare Manor.
The PGA of America rolled the dice by appointing Keegan Bradley as the Ryder Cup captain for 2025. The call came after Tiger Woods turned down the role.
Unfortunately for Bradley, the week at Bethpage Black proved to be hugely disappointing. Europe were able to win just one of the 11 matches on Sunday and leave New York with the trophy.
Bradley admitted he made an error in deciding how Bethpage was set up. Meanwhile, some of his selections over the first two days were bizarre.
Keegan Bradley backed to captain Team USA again at the 2027 Ryder Cup
Team USA ultimately came unstuck against a well-oiled European machine. And with that, Bradley conceded that he will be haunted by what happened at the Ryder Cup.
There are plenty of lessons to learn if the Americans hope to stand any chance of winning their first away Ryder Cup since 1993.
But speaking to Beyond The Clubhouse, Chris DiMarco suggested that he would give Bradley the chance to lead the side once again in Ireland.
“I think Keegan should get another shot. He’s a very big American and a big ra-ra guy. I feel bad for him because I think he should have been picked two years ago and any other captain other than him this year he probably would have played again,” he said.
“He’s only 39, he’s a kid. So I love that he’s USA and everything he is about with that and I think he should get another shot. Put some people around him. He knows a lot of the young guys, so let’s go do what they did to us.”
Chris DiMarco says the crowd behaviour backfired at the Ryder Cup
DiMarco probably does not have the happiest memories of the Ryder Cup, with the US losing 18.5-9.5 in both of the years that he played.
Of course, the 2025 event also left a sour taste in the mouth due to the behaviour of sections of the Bethpage crowd.
And DiMarco admitted that the abuse the European side faced actually did Bradley’s men no favours at all.
“I wanted our fans to be unbelievably boisterous. I think they crossed the line a little bit and I think what Rory said, as hypocritical as it was, I think the fact that they were cheering more against Rory rather than for Scottie, I think that was the wrong push,” he said.
“When you take an elite athlete like Rory McIlroy and you p— him off enough to where he knows that his best revenge to you is to beat whoever he is playing in front of you, that is more motivation than anything in the world.
“I think it backfired on us and you have to tip your hats to them. Every time we made a putt and it seemed like our fans were going to go nuts they would make something and deflate us.”
The golfing world spent so long preparing for how hostile the atmosphere was going to be at Bethpage.
Europe did an incredible job of playing on in that cauldron. And there will be plenty associated with the European team who now hope the PGA of America listen to DiMarco’s recommendation for who the 2027 captain should be.
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