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"Yeah, I've told Tiger that I want him to be as
involved as he wants to be," Bradley said on Wednesday, one day
ahead of the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minn. "We
didn't -- with the (Open Championship) going on, we're not
really chatting too much about that.
"We both have a job to do and I don't want to bother Tiger with
that. I think in the coming months -- we're still 14 months out
here, so we've got a long time."
Speaking of time, Bradley had three weeks to sit on the news of
being named the captain for the U.S. team before the world was
let in on the "secret."
"I wasn't telling a soul. I was sort of dealing with the news
myself as well," he said. "I was very -- I didn't know I was
going to be the Ryder Cup captain, so I was dealing with that
with my family, getting a plan together on how we're going to do
this. I really wanted to be the one to call (Europe's Ryder Cup
captain) Luke Donald and tell him, so I wanted to keep that
quiet.
"It was nice to not have anybody know so I could sort of move
under the radar making all these plans. But now, having it be
out in the open has been helpful, too."
Bradley, 38, made his first move on Tuesday by naming Webb
Simpson as his first vice captain.
Additional vice captains will be named at a later date by
Bradley for the event, which is scheduled for Sept. 26-28, 2025,
at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y.
Team Europe is the defending Ryder Cup champion, defeating the
Americans 16 1/2-11 1/2 in 2023 at the Marco Simone Golf &
Country Club near Rome.
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