Together with his victory Sunday on the Vacationers Championship, Keegan Bradley took a large step towards being the primary taking part in captain on the Ryder Cup since Arnold Palmer in 1963.
Bradley birdied the final gap at TPC River Highlands to edge Tommy Fleetwood, who bogeyed two of his final three holes, and win the Vacationers for the second time in three years. Bradley’s win additionally got here on the 12 months anniversary of him getting the decision from the PGA of America asking if he’d captain this 12 months’s American crew at Bethpage.
Lengthy adamant that he wouldn’t decide himself as considered one of 12 opponents, Bradley is now as much as seventh on the earth rankings and ninth in U.S. Ryder Cup factors, which has pressured him to vary his tune.
“I’ll play if I really feel like it can assist the crew,” Bradley mentioned Sunday night.
Bradley hasn’t performed a Ryder Cup since 2014, when he made his second straight look.
Fleetwood’s sixth profession runner-up on the PGA Tour moved him 5 spots to second in European Ryder Cup factors, solely behind Rory McIlroy.
Russell Henley, who shared second at Vacationers with Fleetwood, additionally made a giant soar, shifting inside the highest six to fourth. The highest six in factors after the BMW Championship will robotically qualify whereas six captain’s picks can be made after the Tour Championship. The highest six Europeans can be finalized Aug. 25 with six picks coming Sept. 1.
Listed here are up to date appears to be like at each factors standings (q-clinched berth):
U.S.
1. q-Scottie Scheffler, 27,536.93
2. Xander Schauffele, 12,472.70
3. J.J. Spaun, 12,271.85
4. Russell Henley, 11,166.85
5. Bryson DeChambeau, 10,318.00
6. Justin Thomas, 9,997.69
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7. Collin Morikawa, 9,482.01
8. Ben Griffin, 8,432.91
9. Keegan Bradley, 7,845.22
10. Harris English, 7,666.53
11. Maverick McNealy, 7,126.46
12. Brian Harman, 6,521.26
13. Andrew Novak, 6,346.28
14. Patrick Cantlay, 6,010.83
15. Sam Burns, 5,508.75
16. Tom Hoge, 4,392.10
17. Cameron Younger, 4,386.55
18. Daniel Berger, 4,308.82
19. Tony Finau, 4,160.51
20. Lucas Glover, 4,155.63
21. Denny McCarthy, 3,815.97
22. Wyndham Clark, 3,698.49
23. Akshay Bhatia, 3,502.92
24. Michael Kim, 3,462.99
25. Jordan Spieth, 3,447.75
Europe
1. q-Rory McIlroy, 3,138.45
2. Tommy Fleetwood, 1,237.43
3. Tyrrell Hatton, 1,216.55
4. Robert MacIntyre, 1,212.11
5. Shane Lowry, 1,202.11
6. Sepp Straka, 1,146.33
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7. Rasmus Hojgaard, 1,072.33
8. Ludvig Aberg, 909.53
9. Justin Rose, 886.84
10. Viktor Hovland, 882.31
11. Thomas Detry, 750.59
12. Matt Wallace, 707.57
13. Niklas Norgaard, 634.43
14. Aaron Rai, 586.46
15. Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, 576.34
16. Thorbjorn Olesen, 564.55
17. Jon Rahm, 544.89
18. Laurie Canter, 539.62
19. Jordan Smith, 526.78
20. Jorge Campillo, 506.43
21. John Parry, 500.37
22. Antoine Rozner, 482.48
23. Paul Waring, 475.13
24. Harry Corridor, 436.56
25. Julien Guerrier, 431.65
