Keegan Bradley maintains 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup qualification process while weighing player-captain role

The U.S. Ryder Cup captain currently ranks as the 14th in the Official World Golf Rankings

Keegan Bradley will be roaming the grounds at Bethpage Black next fall for the 2025 Ryder Cup; however, there is a level of mystery regarding the exact capacity in which he will contributing. Named the U.S. Ryder Cup captain this past summer, the world No. 14 golfer has a legitimate chance to play his way onto the team as a competitor leaving some to wonder what would happen in such a scenario transpired.

"Every vice captain that I am choosing will know that this is a possibility," Bradley said Tuesday at a one-year-out Ryder Cup press conference in New York. "So, they will know what's going on in that way. I also have John Wood who has come on. But I think my vice captains are all going to be more than capable of doing this, and I hope some day they will all be captains. But again, we're so far away from that that I'm really focused on being a captain right now."

Bradley, 38, has already announced Brandt Snedeker and Webb Simpson as vice captains; neither has prior leadership experience in the Ryder Cup. Conversations between Bradley and Tiger Woods have taken place since the former was named captain, but Woods' role remains undefined at this stage. The 15-time major champion memorably served as a victorious U.S. playing captain at the 2019 Presidents Cup.