Keegan Bradley Named Ryder Cup Captain: A Surprising Pick
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00:00A very surprising move.
00:05Everybody thought Tiger was going to be the Ryder Cup captain at Bethpage Black next year
00:10coming off of the loss in Rome.
00:12But out of nowhere, first you had that news start to trickle on Monday, well Tiger's not
00:17doing it.
00:18Tiger's out.
00:19And then all the speculation started, well maybe it's Stewart Cink and why is Stewart
00:23Cink got an exemption into the Scottish this week?
00:26What's going on?
00:27And then it gets dropped.
00:29Keegan Bradley, after everything that happened last year on the Netflix show and him being
00:34the last man out, I gotta tell you Keith, I absolutely love it.
00:39What about you?
00:41I love it too.
00:42And I tell you, if you think you were surprised, I know I was surprised.
00:46Nobody was more surprised after the press conference when he told the story than Keegan
00:49Bradley.
00:50He didn't even know.
00:51The guy didn't even interview for the job.
00:53I absolutely love this.
00:55I mean, Twitter's ripping this thing apart, but these are the same people that complain
00:59about the price of the check when you give them a free one.
01:01You know, like it's it's like it's unbelievable.
01:04Like they want change.
01:05They want change.
01:06Then all of a sudden you give them like what you and I think would be great change.
01:10I mean, a guy knows the golf course.
01:12The guy played college golf in New York City.
01:14Yes, he's in New England there, but he's really he's a Northeasterner, right?
01:18Like how many Northeast Ryder cups are we going to have?
01:20We haven't had one since 1999 at the country club.
01:23It's not coming back up here again.
01:25He's at 38 years old.
01:26He's still got a connection to the players.
01:28He's 19th in the official world golf ranking, so like he he has their respect and above
01:34all else, above all else, the guy's just awkward, right?
01:38He's all fidgety on the golf course and everything.
01:40Somebody needs to put these guys on tilt.
01:42It's no longer a trip to Long Island next September, right?
01:46This isn't another buddy's trip to Rome.
01:48This is we're going in.
01:50My name's Herb Brooks.
01:51This is 1980.
01:53This is the miracle out of Beth Page, right?
01:55This is what we're doing.
01:57You are a young group of kids with great chemistry, and this is we're going to go,
02:00and we're going to lay waste to Europe.
02:02That's what we're going to do, and I'm not going to make apologies about it.
02:05I mean, he's like the next version of Basinger in the Ryder Cup.
02:08I love it.
02:09He's going to be edgy, and you don't know what this guy's going to say.
02:12He's got part New Yorker in him going to St. John's.
02:16And I love that he did this too yesterday, and that was a great press conference by him
02:20when he was introduced, and I thought the two things he did right out of the gate, there's
02:24going to be no discussion of this now for the next year.
02:27One, I'm not picking myself unless I'm there in points.
02:30He got that on the table right away, so nobody has to worry about that, and the other thing
02:34is the live nonsense.
02:35I don't care about live.
02:36I'm taking the six best golfers.
02:38I don't care who they play for, and now we don't have to sit around for a year going,
02:41is Bryson going to be on the team?
02:42Is Brooks going to be on the team?
02:43I thought that was smart too.
02:46It's his right to choose that process though, Carver, right?
02:50It's not set in stone that it's six and six.
02:52Like he can extend it to eight guys.
02:54It's going to move.
02:55He's going to move it up to eight or nine on points, and then pick three or four.
02:59That makes the most sense.
03:00This pick and six thing is garbage, right?
03:02It doesn't work, right?
03:04He can change the amount of people that they take on points.
03:08Well, that might help him if he's the eighth or ninth guy to get in, but they will determine
03:12that before the year even gets started, and him taking a look at it like this.
03:18It's not like super soft and everything like, oh, cancel culture.
03:21We got to pick everybody, and I wonder how everyone's feelings are and everything.
03:25This guy doesn't care about anyone's feelings.
03:27This guy didn't open up his luggage for 12 years, and he won't open it until that day
03:31when he's raising the cup and kissing it there on the porch over the clubhouse at Bethpage
03:36Black.
03:37I mean, that is going to be the biggest unpacking video of all time.
03:41I mean, who else is going to ... I mean, we're going to be waving the American flag.
03:44I mean, it's going to be absolutely incredible.
03:46I cannot wait for this.
03:51I can't wait.
03:52I can't wait.
03:53I can't wait.