Keegan Bradley would be the captain of the USA workforce on the 2025 Ryder Cup in Bethpage (New York). The official announcement got here from John Lindert, president of the PGA of America. “My ardour and love for golf’s biggest workforce occasion has by no means been stronger.
I’m extremely honored by this nomination,” Bradley stated.
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Born in 1986, from Woodstock, Main champion (he received the PGA Championship in 2011 in his first participation in a Grand Slam occasion), he was a part of the American workforce in 2012, in Medinah, when Europe got here from behind to beat america , and in 2014 in Gleneagles, Scotland.
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Six profession titles on the PGA Tour, Bradley is the thirty first US captain within the Ryder Cup. After Tiger Woods’ refusal, the PGA of America selected Bradley as Zach Johnson’s substitute. The competitors, named after the trophy donated by Englishman Samuel Ryder (1858–1936) to the American federation in 1924, is co-managed by the European Tour and the PGA of America.
From 1927 to 1971 the match passed off between the number of america and that of Nice Britain, with a transparent European dominance (15-3) and just one draw. Eire was integrated into Nice Britain in 1973 and the remainder of continental Europe in 1979.
Following the acceptance of the European workforce as an antagonist of the US workforce, the match was way more balanced: from 1979 to 2018, actually, there have been eleven successes for Europe, eight for america and just one draw.
The Ryder Cup is hosted alternately on the 2 continents in odd-numbered years. For Europe, British golf programs have traditionally all the time been chosen, excluding the editions of: 1997, performed on the Valderrama Golf Membership (Spain) in honor of the previous Spanish golfer Severiano Ballesteros, 2018 performed in Saint-Quentin-en -Yvelines (France) and, lastly, in 2023, which was held on the Marco Simone Golf & Nation Membership (Italy).
As a result of terrorist assaults of 11 September 2001, the scheduled version of the Ryder Cup was performed the next yr, consequently shifting the competitors to even years, till the 2018 version. The next match, scheduled for 2020, was postponed to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, thus shifting the Ryder Cup to odd years once more.
Among the many European ranks, it’s value mentioning the presence, on three completely different events (1993, 1995 and 1997), of one of the crucial well-known Italian gamers within the historical past of golf, Costantino Rocca, remembered for his well-known hole-in-one through the version of 1995.
The Italians Francesco Molinari and Edoardo Molinari have been the primary brothers to compete for the European workforce in the identical Ryder Cup, because of their simultaneous participation within the 2010 version. Francesco Molinari additionally took half within the 2012 editions, in america , and 2018, in France. The reigning champion choice is the European workforce that received the title within the 2023 version.
