With Keegan Bradley unveiling his six captain’s picks: Justin Thomas , Collin Morikawa , Ben Griffin , Sam Burns , Patrick Cantlay , and Cameron Young join a roster already headlined by automatic qualifiers such as Bryson DeChambeau . There is optimism surrounding one of the strongest American lineups in recent memory, but one question casts a shadow: how does Bradley solve the DeChambeau puzzle?
That, at least, was Brandel Chamblee ’s dire warning. On Golf Channel , the analyst reiterated a haunting pattern: “I f you go back to 1979 when it became continental Europe vs the United States, when you look at the first session and the very first match of that session, the winner of the first match of the first session has predicted the winner of the Ryder Cup 68 perc