NAPA, Calif. – Keegan Bradley has not shied away from saying the quiet parts out loud.

“I think we all agree that me being the captain was definitely a shock to everybody,” the U.S. Ryder Cup captain shrugged Wednesday at the Procore Championship.

Bradley has turned the PGA Tour’s fall opener into a makeshift spring training for Team USA with 10 of his 12 players at Silverado Resort preparing for this month’s matches. But getting player buy-in to his pre-match tune-up doesn’t begin to plumb the depths of his outlier status .

Selecting Bradley, who at 39 years old is still in the prime of his competitive career, was very much an outside-the-box move, even for an organization with a tendency of zigging when everyone anticipates a zag. It was similar renegade thinking that prompted the PG

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