It's always slightly disappointing, after a sexy headline, to lead with disclaimers, but before we get into the good (bad?) stuff, it does feel like these three caveats are necessary:

Keegan Bradley arguably deserves to make the Ryder Cup team on the strength of his performance the past two years. It's not clear-cut—that's the problem, as we'll see in a moment—but he's a top-10 player in the world, he recently won a tournament, and if I were making the call, he'd be on the team. (You'll be shocked to know that they have not consulted me.)

A lot of this is not his fault. Some may be slightly his fault, but a lot comes down to circumstances beyond his control.

Any discourse about the Ryder Cup needs to acknowledge that playing in front of tens of thousands of rabid home fans is by far the

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