Rory McIlroy doesn’t believe playing in the Ryder Cup and being a team captain is a feasible idea, telling reporters Wednesday that he already turned down the idea when it was brought up to him.

The interest in the topic stems from the impending decision by Keegan Bradley over whether he’ll select himself as one of the 12 members of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, which would make him the first playing captain since 1963 when golf legend Arnold Palmer did it.

But the Northern Irish golf star bluntly responded to a reporter’s question about why he turned down the idea, saying, “Because I don’t think you can do it.” 3

“I just think the commitments that a captain has the week of — you think about the extra media that a captain has to do, you think about the extra meetings that the captains

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