Rory Mcilroy said he would not be a Ryder Cup that Captain played.
More than once.
“No. It is mentioned and I just said,” really not, “he said last July at the Genesis Scottish Open.” It depends on what do you want? If you want to be the best leader you can be, you can’t play. And if you want to be the best player you can be, you can’t apply. It is one or the other. Especially with how big the Ryder Cup has become and how many things you have to do in the run -up to the event, the week of the event. “
Then why the thought? Just a few days earlier, Keegan Bradley was named the American captain for playing the biennial event of this year – and at least he should consider himself for the team if he would show a good shape for the next 13 months. And he has. He led to a follow -up change between McIlroy and a reporter on the Scottish Open of this year.
It was this day last year that we talked about Keegan and the Ryder Cup Captainincy [said] That it is impossible to be a play captain in this era. Now a year later, it probably looks that it will happen.
“Hopefully it is impossible,” McIlroy said before he laughed.
In anticipation of this week’s BMW championship, he did not repeat himself surprisingly. He said again that he was asked to be a play captain and that he turned the place. He said again that you can’t do both.
But in an answer to a follow -up question, he defined why on Wednesday with four reasons.
1. The media
“I just think the commitments that a captain has the week – you think of the extra media that a captain should do,” said McIlroy.
How much exactly? This season only take Bradley’s PGA Tour schedule. He has played 20 events and was interviewed 20 times by only print and online reporters. Then there are TV requests. And radio bastards. And podcast requests. And Ryder Cup requests. Also the extra press conferences that the captain must do during the day Ryder Cup Week.
2. The meetings
“You think of the extra meetings that the captains have to do with the Vice captains, with the PGA of America,” said McIlroy.
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“I think the hardest thing for me did not think of the Ryder Cup when I am practicing or my daily day when I am at home with my family. It is constantly in my mind about how we are going to do this, the best way to do, how can it be a good meeting, it is really the biggest time, it is interesting because it is in a tournament.
“Sometimes for us golfers it is in the ropes actually a peaceful place. I sometimes had that this year, but there have been for sure times that I have practiced, and a thought will be in my head and I have to write it down and then I think about it, and that is a distraction. But it has not influenced my preparation or something like that.”
3. The speech
“In the case of Keegan, preparing your speech for the opening ceremony – there are just many things that people don’t see that the captain is doing the week of the Ryder Cup, especially now that the Ryder Cup has become so large,” McIlroy said.
Real? Consider the speech of the European Captain Luke Donald during the 2023 event in Italy – who pulled applause after he opened it in Italian. (You can view it below.)
4. The game itself
“Then the captain will not be on the track all day, so the captain can really only play one session on Friday, one session on Saturday. Do you prefer not to have a player who has the flexibility to go twice if he plays well?
For reference, three players in 2023 played in the maximum five Ryder Cup matches – McIlroy and Viktor HOVOLAND for Europeans, and Max Homa for the US
And yet McIlroy also said that Bradley is one of the 12 best Americans, so at least the discussion will probably continue until the Bradley team is completely unveiled on August 27, three days after the Tour Championship. For his part, Bradley repeated on Wednesday that nobody can expect him to be in the team, unless they are in the six automatic qualifying places.
He also said this in response to McIlroy’s play captain thought:
“He may be right. We don’t know. Nobody knows. Yes, as everyone tells me to start the year that a player cannot be a captain and have a good year. For me I feel that this is one of my best years I’ve ever had.
“One of the strangest things, what I have done throughout my career, is really tend to other people to advise and ask people advice and ask, how do you prepare for a major? What do you do with the latest tee? How are you with the media? How are you dealing with business obligations? In this case there is no one to call. Nobody knows how this can work.
“I certainly have a lot of worries, as well as everyone else, but I have the most incredible Vice captains, including Jim Furyk, who is in these teams and has been a captain a number of times. To be honest, I have held more than any other supplier ever, even if I don’t play.
“We are ready for this when it happens. I am not sure if it is going. I can really sit here and say that I do not know what will happen. I have to look at myself, just like any other player trying to make the team. I am now 10th in points, and that is not sixth.”
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