Keegan Bradley reveals Ryder Cup devastation as Netflix camera crew convinced him he'd made Team USA cut

Keegan Bradley has revealed that a visit from a Netflix documentary crew had him convinced he'd made the US Ryder Cup team, only for his hopes to be brutally shanked into the rough.

Bradley was in the running to be Team USA's final wild card pick for the 44th instalment of the transatlantic tournament in Rome next week, where Europe are gunning to wrestle back the title after a chastening 19-9 defeat at Whistling Straits two years ago. Sam Burns and Cameron Young with the other candidates, and were ahead of Bradley despite his Ryder Cup experience and a decent 2022/23 campaign.

However, on the morning Bradley was awaiting the call from captain Zach Johnson, the Netflix cameras arrived at his home to film footage for golf doc Full Swing, which will feature this year's Ryder Cup. And when they got in touch to tell Bradley they were coming, Bradley convinced himself that he'd made the cate for the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club.

He told the Foreplay podcast: “I get a call from Netflix, and they say, 'Keegan, we got a crew five minutes away from your house'. So why would they be sending a camera crew if I am not getting picked? For the first time, I let my brain think, ‘I did it'. Why would they be rushing a camera crew to my house?”

“As soon as I picked up the phone, Johnson gave me a, ’Hey Keegan,’ and I looked over at [my wife] Jill one second into the call and was like, 'No'. But Johnson was really nice, and then I hung up the phone, but you are all going to see this on [Netflix].

"I mean, this is real life. Nobody will have ever seen this call before. It was devastating.”

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