‘I felt like having friends was going to hurt me’: Keegan Bradley on his breathless turn from outsider to Ryder Cup captain

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‘I felt like having friends was going to hurt me’: Keegan Bradley on his breathless turn from outsider to Ryder Cup captain
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Major champion, seven-time PGA Tour winner, Ryder Cup captain – Keegan Bradley’s career CV is already the kind most golfers would take in a heartbeat, but that hasn’t stopped the American from harboring regrets.

Among the biggest of them all? Not making friends. “I just came to the course every day and did my job. I felt like having friends was going to hurt me somehow,” Bradley told CNN Sport’s Don Riddell ahead of the PGA Tour’s season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta this week.

Dubbed the team’s “emotional leader” by Johnson, Thomas was well-known to be close with Jordan Spieth and other members of the US roster. It left Bradley to reflect on his own reluctance to make friendships earlier in his career, as well as the emotional toll that his “obsession” to make the team had taken. “I vowed to myself never to be that stressed out about making another team,” Bradley said. “When you don’t make the team on points, you can’t expect to be picked, so I had no hard feelings.

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