PGA of America’s decision to pay its Ryder Cup golfers and captain $500,000 each — with $300,000 going to charity and the rest a personal stipend — already has emerged as an early point of tension heading into the week at Bethpage.

Team Europe captain Luke Donald told Sky Sports on Monday that he spoke with his 12 golfers in Rome once it became clear Team USA planned to change its stance and that all of them agreed “this isn’t a week to get paid.”

Experiences from the Ryder Cup are “worth more than a couple hundred thousand dollars” to them, he added. Former Team USA golfer and captain Tom Watson said in a recent Golf Channel interview that he didn’t agree with it, either.

But American captain Keegan Bradley defended the decision when faced with numerous questions about the optics of it

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