SUTTON, Mass. (AP) — Keegan Bradley knew the stakes when he accepted the Ryder Cup captaincy.

“You win, it’s glory for a lifetime. You lose, it’s ‘I’m going to have to sit with this for the rest of my life,’” he said Monday in his first public comments since leaving Bethpage Black last month. “There’s no part of me that thinks I’ll ever get over this.”

A two-time Ryder Cup competitor, Bradley was appointed captain of the U.S. team last year and brought a stacked squad to face Europe on New York’s Long Island. Although they were favored to win at home, the Americans fell into a 11 1/2-4 1/2 hole heading into the final day – the biggest Sunday morning deficit in modern Ryder Cup history.

“You put so much into it, and you have all this planning, and the first two days went as poorly as we

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