Keegan Bradley

Keegan Bradley has won twice since it was announced he would lead the United States in the upcoming Ryder Cup.

At the BMWE Championship last August became the first captain to win a PGA Tour event since Davis Love in 2015.

His latest success was was at the Travelers Championship in June when he birdied the last hole and Tommy Fleetwood, one ahead on the tee, bogeyed it to lose by one.

In 2011 - eight years after Ben Curtis became the first player since Francis Ouimet in 1913 to win in his first major - Keegan Bradley pulled off the same astonishing feat at the PGA Championship.

Five behind with three holes to play, the nephew of Pat Bradley - winner of six women's majors - stormed back to beat Jason Dufner in a play-off. It made him the first player to win a major with a long putter and led to a Ryder Cup debut where he won three times with Phil Mickelson.

They resumed that partnership in 2014 – the last time he played in the Ryder Cup - after a season in which he tied for fourth in both the US Open and WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, an event he won in 2012 with a closing 64.

Bradley also played for the United States in the 2013 and 2024 Presidents Cup, securing their match-winning point in September.

In 2018 he ended more than six years without a victory by beating Justin Rose in a play-off for the BMW Championship, but then went another four years before adding the 2022 Zozo Championship and then the Travelers Championship.