‘Up and beyond’: the largest ‘weapon’ of US Ryder Cup team lurking in sight

While he filled his selection with his six wildcard selections on Wednesday in PGA Frisco, Captain Keegan Bradley praised every member of his American Ryder Cup team.

He praised the choice of captain Justin Thomas as the ‘heartbeat’ of the team, praised Russell Henley’s ‘Putsy’ competitiveness and cheered the ball of Collin Morikawa. But one player praised more than others: Bryson Deschambeau.

The double US Open Champion Team USA On the back of his sterling in Majors in the past two seasons. Dechambeau plays on Liv Golf and is rarely around Bradley and the other core members of the team, but the Crushers GC frontman has done what is needed to bridge the gap created by the fracture of golf and to be part of the structure of the 2025 team.

“A lot to say about Bryson,” said Bradley Wednesday. “One of the most incredible things is that he is qualified for this team of eight starts, which is unheard of. But what I am most impressed [by] Is the effort he made to be part of this team. He had to travel, do his utmost to meet us in our places, and he went beyond what we would ever ask of a player, and I am most proud of that. You can continue about what an incredible player he is and golfer, but what he has done for this team, which makes the extra effort, is great to see. “

Dechambeau did not make the US Ryder Cup team in 2023, but he was a member of the 2021 team that Europe routed to Whistling Straits. Since that time, the popularity of Dephambeau has risen thanks to a flourishing YouTube channel and a move to LIV that helped him become more comfortable in his own skin. That comfort has been helped by the Golfaspect team that DECHAMBEAU really likes. Although it is impossible to know how seriously his record as Captain Van Crusher’s should take, the role of Deschambeau has helped him to come out of his shell and to show him that his earlier struggles in team events were due to poor team building, something that he wants to help correct this time.

“The way I led my team personally is, I have let them be their individual self, their best individual self,” said Decchambeau about his Crusers team of Paul Casey, Charles Howell III and Anirban Lahiri at the Open Championship. “But I can get Paul’s best, Charles is his best and ‘ban to be his best.

‘[That’s] What led us to be the most successful there is. [What] I learned from Team Golf is to make the individual the best person they can be possible to add to the team. That’s it. Don’t try to put anyone in a bubble and say You have to do this, you have to do that. What I learned best from my college coach, Josh Gregory, was exactly that: Let me be me. That’s why I did so well at the university. That is how I led the Brekers; It is exactly the same. I let them be. That is the way I continue in the team competition. “

Call it adulthood, a change of environment or an Epiphany, but the Bryson Dechambeau that was once seen as a PGA Tour Pariah – a whose hecking led to countless columns about bullying during the 2021 season – is now one of the most popular figures of the game. Being part of a team helped him find an area in which he thrives – which contributes to a collective goal – and is more authentic, which has delivered him an avalanche of fan support worldwide. The Bryson Deschambeau who was previously seen as an outsider in team competitions is now a golfmegastar that seems to thrive in that area and is released as a more real version of himself.

Although Bradley’s selfless decision not to choose himself as a play captain, he can galvanize Team USA that Bethpage is on its way, their greater advantage could be in Depchambeau and what he has found since his last Ryder Cup attempt.

“Well, the simple fact is that Bryson Dechambeau is one of the best golfers on the planet Earth,” Bradley told Damon Hack of Golf Channel on Wednesday. “We can link him to many boys. He has been very open – he will play with everyone. He is just rabidic to go out and represent his country at Bethpage Black. He is really a great weapon that we are going to have. Bryson has been absolutely incredible. Together and win the Ryder Cup.”

On the Open Championship, Deschambeau promised to bring a “tsunami” from crowd energy to Bethpage Black while the US is looking back from the loss in Rome to take the cup back.

Must end on September 28 with the American team that pushes itself in Champagne on Long Island, with an all-in Deshamebeau, which is now completely comfortable being Bryson Deschambeau and has a mountain of public support behind him, will be a big reason why.