Keegan Bradley says he asked Tiger Woods for Ryder Cup input

Keegan Bradley revealed on Wednesday that he had a brief discussion with Tiger Woods regarding Woods’ potential involvement in the 2025 Ryder Cup. However, the timing of their conversation wasn’t ideal, as both were competing in the Open Championship, which took precedence.

Bradley, speaking ahead of the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota, said, “Yeah, I’ve told Tiger that I want him to be as involved as he wants to be. We didn’t — with the (Open Championship) going on, we’re not really chatting too much about that. We both have a job to do and I don’t want to bother Tiger with that. I think in the coming months — we’re still 14 months out here, so we’ve got a long time.”

Bradley also shared that he had three weeks to process the news of being named the U.S. Ryder Cup team captain before it was made public. “I wasn’t telling a soul. I was sort of dealing with the news myself as well,” he said. “I was very — I didn’t know I was going to be the Ryder Cup captain, so I was dealing with that with my family, getting a plan together on how we’re going to do this. I really wanted to be the one to call (Europe’s Ryder Cup captain) Luke Donald and tell him, so I wanted to keep that quiet.”

He added, “It was nice to not have anybody know so I could sort of move under the radar making all these plans. But now, having it be out in the open has been helpful, too.”

On Tuesday, Bradley took his first action as captain by naming Webb Simpson as his first vice captain. Additional vice captains will be announced later. The Ryder Cup is set for September 26-28, 2025, at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, New York.

Team Europe is the defending champion, having defeated the U.S. team 16 1/2 to 11 1/2 in 2023 at the Marco Simone Golf & Country Club near Rome.