The throughline of Keegan Bradley’s career and his turn as U.S. Ryder Cup captain is most easily quantified by his time at St. John’s University.

There are many who believe it was the 2023 Ryder Cup snub and his real-time reaction in front of the Netflix cameras that sealed his unlikely fate as a captain, but that explanation suggests a collective empathy at the PGA of America that normally isn’t found in professional associations and is impossible to quantify.

Instead, it will the 39-year-old’s four years at St. John’s, which bills itself as “New York’s team” and is just 30 minutes from Bethpage State Park Golf Course on a good traffic day.

The PGA of America was looking to check a few boxes with Bradley as captain, including his own admission that he’s something of a Ryder Cup “outsid

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