With the US PGA reaffirming earlier this year that LIV Golf players can make and play on the USA Ryder Cup team, captain Keegan Bradley had decisions to make. Whether or not anyone on the tour, unless they somehow qualified automatically, played for the USA was going to be up to him and his choices.
At a press conference, the USA captain revealed his stance on LIV players playing. He’s all for it as long as it gives him the best team he can possibly have.
He said:
“For us, I’m gonna take the twelve best players. So if we feel like there’s a few guys there, one guy, two guys, whatever it is, then we’re gonna do it. We are definitely gonna take the twelve best players. [0:28 onwards]”
That is essentially what 2023’s captain Zach Johnson did. He selected six based on the players he felt were the best for his team, and that included LIV Golf star Brooks Koepka.Before he made this statement and before the US PGA had clarified things, Bradley did express his expectation that LIV players would not be out of bounds for him.Via Sports Illustrated, he said in August:
“I’m going to have the best 12 players, so the PGA of America… we’re going to have the 12 best players, so they need to figure that out, if that’s their problem. I know you have to be a PGA (of America) member to play in the Ryder Cup.”
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