It did not take a long time after Keagan Bradley’s victory Sunday To consider the irony at the Travelers Championship for the US Rider Cup captain.

“My whole life, every year I was out of here, I wanted to play in the Rider Cup team, and then it would be the first year where I probably didn’t want,” Bradley said, two -time rider cuper, although not since 2014, who was a Captain named a year ago a year ago.

“I just wanted to be the captain and of course, you know, this is the same.”

For months, Bradley is adamant that he will not choose himself. The way he will be a playing captain, he is constantly called, if he qualify for the 12-man American team based on the points.

Even in those moments when he drowned 5-footers for the Birdi to win the passengers for the second time in three years, Bradley dodged a clear question from CBS reporter Amanda Baliyonis.

Have you assured yourself that you will now be adorable to this team?

“Go USA!” Bradley replied.

But once he settled behind the interview podium, Bradley allowed himself to be realistic. His victory estimated him not only to take him to seventh place in the official world golf rankings, but also in the US Rider Cup point. The last time a top -10 player in the world was released out of the Rider Cup team, when Bubba Watson was denied a place on the American squad despite finishing seventh in the world. Bradley is also now 10th in the total stroke on the tour this season and the third in the stroke received T from Green.

After the BMW Championship, a lot of golfs are still to be played before finalizing six automatic chairs on August 17 and six captain picks are chosen after the tour championship.

But if things are fixed today, hard work will be done to not call Bradley his number. He also knows this.

“This changes the story a little,” Bradley said. “If I don’t win I never think of playing. It definitely opens the door to play. I don’t know if I am going to do it or not, but I will definitely have to keep a very difficult look at what is the best for the team, and we will see.”

When Bradley received a call a year ago, PGA CEO Seth W Wal told Bradley to be the first captain to play before Arnold Palmer in 1963. Palmer will go to a dominated American victory in East Lake 4–2 that year.

Bradley said, “My head was roaming, I did not know what they were talking about, but they knew that it was a possibility and we would have things for it.” “But you know that I am always trying to be the best I can be, and I think I am playing the best golf of my career right now.”

Later, on the Golf Central Set with Golf Channel’s Rich Learner and Brandal Chambal, Bradley said that if he plays in Bethapage Black, he would not abandon his captaincy. Instead, their assistants – Jim Furik, Web Simpson, Kevin Kisner and Brant Snedekar – will only absorb additional responsibilities.

Bradley said, “If I think it will help the team, I will play.”

Right now, there is no doubt that he will do it.

The door is open for him.