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Dates: September 26 through September 28th, 2018 Bethpage Black, New York
After having a change of heart, American Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley made the decision to skip his first game against Europe next month.
The 39-year-old completed his 12-strong team by adding six wildcard picks to Bethpage Black’s schedule on September 26 and 28 and kept the public guessing until Wednesday when he announced the public’s guesses.
Bradley once declared that he was prepared to take on both roles before reevaluating his decision.
He claimed that being the best captain possible was “broke my heart not to play.”
If Bradley had been the team’s captain, he almost certainly would have been named as a player because of his strong performance this year, which included six top-10 finishes and a win in the Travelers Championship.
Instead, he chose Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Collin Morikawa, Ben Griffin, Cameron Young, Patrick Cantley, Sam Burns, and Scottie Scheffler, JJ Spaun, Xander Schauffele, Russell Henley, Harris English, and Bryson DeChambeau as automatic qualifiers.
Arnold Palmer, age 34, was the youngest US captain since 1963 when Bradley was named the 11th overall and 11th overall.
“This was a very difficult choice,” he said. This year, I was playing at a certain point,” Bradley said.
What data are gathered from this quiz?
Bradley would have become the first playing captain since Palmer if Donald Trump, the president of the United States, had supported him in both of these capacities.
Trump, a regular golfer and avid golfer, will attend the first day of the Ryder Cup.
Trump will be able to observe the captain taking the leadership position he was surprisingly given in July of last year rather than observe Bradley compete on the course.
Bradley won the Travelers Championship by one shot over Tommy Fleetwood from England in June.
He placed himself in the top 12 of the US Ryder Cup rankings after coming in seventh place at the Sunday Tour Championship.
Europe now has to play their cards. On September 1st, Luke Donald, the captain of the European team, will reveal his six picks.
Analysis: “Common sense prevailed.”
Carter, Iain
Correspondent of golf
Luke Donald, the European captain I’m sure of, will probably have disappointed you because he and his team-mates had to worry about both playing and captaining.
Here, common sense prevailed. We discussed before how challenging it would be to perform both jobs and do them in the necessary way in order to win the Ryder Cup.
Bradley has since come to understand that he always believed he was the captain, not the player. When he won that important win in June, things did change a little, but ultimately it was better to carry out his duties and not play a player.
Who is the US Ryder Cup team?
Scottie Scheffler, the world’s number one, won both this year’s US PGA Championship and the US Open with ease, along with the BMW Championship in August.
After being defeated by Rory McIlroy to win the Players Championship in a play-off, JJ Spaun won the US Open and became the first major in the process.
In 2024, Xander Schauffele won the US PGA and Open. Although he extended his run of not missing a cut to 58 events, which is the longest since Tiger Woods set the record at 142, he has had a quieter year in 2025.
Over the weekend, Russell Henley and Harris English re-signed their spots.
Bryson DeChambeau, a LIV golf player, qualified for the tournament after completing six top-10 finishes in the majors in the course of 17 months.
The heartbeat of our team was described by Captain Bradley as “the guy who was born to play Ryder Cups, especially at Bethpage Black,” who was also a two-time major winner and had finished seventh in the Ryder Cup rankings.
Collin Morikawa, a two-time major champion, was eighth in the standings after becoming the second-best player in the world. His “golf resume speaks for itself,” according to Captain Bradley.
He won two victories and 10 top-10s this year, only behind Scottie, according to Bradley.
Cameron Young, a 29-year-old New York native who placed 14th overall, was the rookie choice that Bradley chose for his fourth pick. Young claimed it would be “so special” to compete in his native state.
The team events “mean everything,” according to fifth-pick Patrick Cantlay, who finished 15th overall in the race to join the team.
Who was chosen for the Ryder Cup?
There are several other notable names who haven’t been chosen, aside from Bradley’s decision not to play.
The 2023 Open champion, Brian Harman, was presumably overlooked because he deemed himself a lackey for Bethpage Black.
Additionally, Jordan Spieth, the former world number one who has collaborated with Justin Thomas in the past, is unmoved.
Brooks Koepka, a five-time major champion who is currently touring with LIV Golf, and Maverick McNealy, a former US Open champion, do not make the team.
After posting seven top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour in the 2025 season, McNealy, who is 19th overall, just ahead of Cameron Young and Patrick Cantlay, intended for a debut.
It was a “very, very difficult call,” according to Bradley, to omit 29-year-old McNealy.
Analysis: “Bradley’s choice came as a surprise.”
Peter Scrivener
Senior journalist for BBC Sport
Given that Bradley placed 11th in the US Ryder Cup qualifying table and, by consensus, is currently one of the top ten golfers in the country, the decision came as a surprise.
Just six weeks after being chosen as the skipper for this 45th edition of the biennial event, he won the prestigious BMW Championship on the PGA Tour in August.
As the player-captain’s momentum grew, he added another victory in June of the same year that he also recorded six top-10 finishes. However, his inclusion as a player would have reawakened the US team’s ambiguous circumstances.
Bradley, who had won twice in 2023 and narrowly missed out on being chosen for captain, did not make the first-choice selection.
After Tiger Woods, who is 15-times major champion, declined, he accepted the responsibility.
The PGA of America, which oversees the US Ryder Cup team, made the bold choice to appoint him as captain this time, which appeared to be changing.
Before taking on the top position, recent captains Zach Johnson, Jim Furyk, and Davis Love III each had at least one other experience as assistant captain.
In contrast to the team’s other assistants, Kevin Kisner and Gary Woodland, Furyk is one of Bradley’s vice-captains, while Brandt Snedeker and Webb Simpson are also on board and have Ryder Cup experience.
I moved to New York in 1989, and was shortly afterwards writing about two completely unrelated characters – John Bolton and Donald Trump. That is why the FBI raid on John Bolton’s house and office ties together three decades of separate threads, at once disturbing and reassuring. One hopes they checked his bathrooms in their alleged search for classified documents, since those were the proven archivists’ choice for President Trump’s own stash. And maybe they should check whether Bolton still has a Signal account left over from his National Security days.
Despite their fervent equation of this with the search at Mar-a-Lago, it is significant that Trump had obfuscated for months about documents he was proven to hold, while no one had requested any such material from former National Security Advisor Bolton.
Shamelessly, much of the stenographic media straight-facedly parroted the administration’s risible claim that this search was to further a legitimate investigation. Only the most gullible of MAGA supporters believe this is anything but a gratuitous display of power. The move is meant to intimidate Bolton and send a warning to anyone in the Trump Clown Tent who is having second thoughts and considering blowing the whistle. Is there an Incitatus (Roman Emperor Caligula’s horse that he appointed as Consul) waiting in the stable of Trump nominees? We should be told.
Equally, only the most short-sighted of MAGA officials could think this will cow Bolton rather than spur him into even more vociferous thoughtcrime. I have interviewed him often over the years – and profoundly disagreed with him about issues from the United Nations to the Middle East – but he does not dissimulate: he is outspoken and free with his opinions.
Even Bolton’s most fervent ideological opponents must recognise that this ham-fisted harassment will only redouble his determination to expose Trump as not sporting the most beautiful suit of gold in the world. Although one has to say that if he were to don such an outfit, it would match the tawdry tinsel that bedecks the Trumped-up Oval Office.
As president of the Foreign Press Association, I’ve hosted several press conferences with Bolton and can attest that he says what he thinks rather than accommodating or pandering to the views of others.
They might as well have put a horse’s head in Bolton’s bed. This is simply a caution against disloyalty, on a par with how, once they seized power, the Bolsheviks began persecuting their own members and former allies for thoughtcrime. It is gratifying that Bernie Sanders is standing up for Bolton on this very particular point.
Indeed, it reinforces my conclusion that the GOP are the real Bolsheviks in American politics. While for decades Democrats have fought over individual spoils of office, the hard right has concentrated on the fruits of victory. They have sought and consolidated power at every level: school boards, state and local officials, and judicial appointments. They had an agenda waiting to be implemented as soon as Trump’s populist genius came into play.
I have written about Trump’s abject business failures and scams since the 1990s, bemused at how the press fawned over him. Almost 30 years ago, he secured the firing of financial analyst Marvin Roffman for showing how shaky Trump’s casino empire was – as was shortly demonstrated when it failed. In what became a familiar pattern, Trump litigated, lost and settled. But the details were buried under the recurrent amnesia of the media under such pressures. Trump has shown few signs of an overarching ideology other than rampant egoism, fuelled by his grab bag of prejudices and pet hates – exactly what we might expect from an underqualified, money-grubbing suburban son of a rich Nazi sympathiser.
But as Mao said about indoctrinating the peasantry, it was a blank sheet on which he could write the most “beautiful characters”. He is surrounded by scribes who are willing to map out a pointillist policy from all his scattered dotty prejudices, drafting executive orders that pander to his meandering megalomania while implementing their own much more structured and sinister programme. One doubts he picked up his love for the Confederacy from neighbours in Queens or even at Manhattan nightclubs, but some in his entourage have obviously persuaded him that it was a chic posture to adopt.
Trump does not follow a traditional conservative plan, nor one that connects the dots into any coherent whole. For decades, in their conservative phase, neoliberals who dominated the world’s financial institutions and governments ruined nations by insisting on the removal of tariff barriers and excluding government intervention from business. Trump’s populism turns that on its head, evoking nationalist, jingoistic and racist fervour to justify trade barriers and tariffs, celebrating the government taking part ownership of Intel and intervening directly on behalf of favoured corporations. Instead of nationalising the media, he co-opted their venal owners; instead of direct state control of institutions like universities, he browbeat compliant boards – which often overlap with his crony corporate world. The new rule is no longer the “too big to fail” principle abandoned in the Reagan-Thatcher years, but rather “too loyal to fail”.
In some ways, this is more worrying than an outright reactionary policy. He is not one for literary references, but two together seem to augur the future in works that epitomise the times even more than ever. Lewis Carroll, in a prescient discussion of the meaning of words, has Humpty Dumpty summarising: “The question is, which is to be master – that’s all.” And the purpose, in Stephen Miller’s convincing avatar of Orwell’s O’Brien in 1984, is clear: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”
Those who come for your immigrant neighbour will come for you – just as they came for Bolton – and they will come for any critical media.
On Wednesday, President Bola Tinubu emphasized the importance of putting Nigeria at the center of Africa’s development.
The President, in a speech to Nigerians in Brazil, pledged to accelerate Nigeria’s development by promoting the success models of emerging markets like Brazil.
He reiterated the commitment of his administration to inclusive growth, reform, and innovation.
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According to presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga, “We must bring Nigeria to the forefront of Africa’s progress, driven by technology, food sovereignty, and the courage to change our destiny.”
According to Tinubu, who described his visit to Brazil as a strategic move to strengthen bilateral ties and draw inspiration from Brazil’s impressive development trajectory, both countries once had similar economic starting points.
“Nigeria and Brazil used to be on the same level,” says one source. Regard Brazil’s current technology and food systems. What do we need to ask ourselves, specifically, what do we lack?
We possess youth, energy, and brains. Everything we need is available to us. We must now take action.
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He praised the vibrant diaspora community in Nigeria and urged them to consider themselves as key players in the creation of a new, innovative country with a culture of innovation and shared responsibility.
You represent our country’s pride. Your commitment and diversity reflect the country we are attempting to create. He continued, “I salute you all.”
The President made it clear that the ongoing economic reforms are crucial for achieving long-term stability and prosperity, but they also raised concerns about the difficulties that people are facing as a result.
“Yes, the reforms are difficult, like bitter medicine,” he said. You can tell when the fever subsides that the treatment was worthwhile, he said.
The President claimed that his administration was laying the foundation for international cooperation that would unlock Nigeria’s potential in terms of technology, manufacturing, and cultural exchange.
President Tinubu also urged Nigerians to foster cohesion, harmony, and passion in both domestic and international settings to create a nation that everyone can proudly call home.
After the teen’s father, Peter Andre, admitted he had lost control of “Bister” and her brother Junior, Katie Price is taking her daughter Princess to London today.
Katie Price has posted a defiant snap with her daughter, Princess(Image: Getty Images)
Katie Price has posted a defiant snap with her daughter, Princess, after the teen’s dad, Peter Andre, admitted he was worried about the young reality star.
Princess, 18, has grown up in the spotlight and is carving out an impressive career for herself after recently starring in her own show, The Princess Diaries. However, after the programme aired on ITV, Peter, 52, admitted he was terrified of the influencer being on social media, particularly with the rise of AI (artificial reality). He also accepted that he has “no choice” but to let Princess and her brother Junior, 20, live their own lives, now that they’re adults.
Meanwhile, Katie was recently in the eye of the storm after a video leaked by her ex, Alex Reid, appeared to show her counting wads of cash with Princess while declaring she was bankrupt. This was after Pete publicly slammed the OnlyFans star, saying he was ‘sick of the lies’ while insisting that the ‘truth would be revealed’.
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Katie Price told fans she was going to London with Princess(Image: katieprice/Instagram)
Despite the drama, Katie is still proudly posting photos with Princess, even though she previously accused Pete’s management of banning her from the teen’s birthday party, which has been denied.
Katie, who is the daughter of Princess and Princess, announced their engagement to the pair in a photo of her oldest daughter today, saying: “Off to London with my Princess, and yes, I got my eyelashes done.
It comes as Pete confessed he was worried about Princess, telling This Morning today: “When I go home, my dad calls me downstairs and we go to the bank. And I’m like ‘Dad, I’ve just woken up!’ but he’s like ‘I don’t care, we are going to the bank now!’ I can’t do that with them. I let them have a lot of freedom and do their thing.” Peter also has his concerns as a parent when it comes to social media.
He continued, “I get a lot of questions about social media.” However, we were all in it together when social media first arrived and we were unaware of its drawbacks. I don’t even consider social media to be the cause of the issue.
It’s a whole new level, and it’s scary, in my opinion, with AI. It’s incredibly terrifying. I want them to be able to fly and do their own thing very well.
The glamour icon recently urged the Mysterious Girl star to sit down after Katie, the singer’s ex, criticised Pete’s management, who produced their daughter Princess’ debut reality series.
However, the Aussie retorted the statement in a shocking Instagram post that followed shortly after: “For sixteen years, I have remained silent in the face of repeated lies from my ex-wife and her family, out of respect for my children and loved ones. Today we come to an end.
Peter Andre has admitted he’s worried about Princess(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
“I must set the record straight about the most recent comments about my children’s welfare and living conditions. Junior and Princess were placed with me until they were adults in 2018 for well-known reasons and for their safety. The family courts formally imposed this arrangement on the family courts in 2019. Out of respect for my children, I’ve never made this public.
My ex-wife’s false claims were discovered in publicly documented court cases in 2011 and 2015, respectively. She was ordered to apologize to me and my management and pay substantial damages and legal costs. Today, the same lies are being made.
“Unfortunately, I haven’t yet addressed any of the lies and baseless accusations I have.” In the upcoming months, those will now be addressed.
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