Keegan Bradley wins BMW Championship, 4th in FedEx Cup standings - ESPN
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — The BMW Championship was one tournament Keegan Bradley never thought he could win, only because he didn't think he would be playing.
Bradley was a bundle of nerves one week ago Sunday as he sat in a hotel room in Tennessee with his bags packed and his season seemingly over. And then he squeezed into the 50th spot in FedEx Cup in the final hour, the last man in Castle Pines for the next playoff event.
From biting his nails in Memphis to holding a trophy in Denver. What a week.
«I can't even wrap my head around it,» Bradley said after an even-par 72 gave him a one-shot victory over Adam Scott, Sam Burns and Ludvig Åberg.
Bradley doesn't have much time to let his seventh career PGA Tour victory sink in. This created possibilities he never imagined a week ago.
He heads to Atlanta for the Tour Championship at East Lake, where Bradley — who went from No. 50 to No. 4 in the standings — will start four shots behind Scottie Scheffler at East Lake with a reasonable chance at winning the FedEx Cup and its $25 million prize.
And that's not the only cup in play.
The starting point for all 30 golfers who have qualified for next week's PGA Tour Championship — and its $25 million prize — at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.
Bradley became the first Ryder Cup captain — he was appointed U.S. skipper just over six weeks ago — to win a PGA Tour event in nine years. He is an assistant captain for the Presidents Cup next month in Montreal.
The BMW title moved him to No. 10 in the Presidents Cup standings. Only the top six automatically qualified Sunday, but Bradley is certain to be under serious consideration when Jim Furyk makes his six captain's picks after the Tour Championship.
«I don't know where that's going to go,