Fourtown-Keegan Bradley, Pennsylvania, is slowly warming up to the all-American soundtrack of “America! America!”. He has been following him in the course since he was appointed as our Ryder Cup captain.

The real surprise, though, was the patriotic reception and thanks for the weekly service he received at the gas station, restaurant, almost when the 38-year-old Vermont player went out in public.

"People bought my dinner, desserts and drinks," Bradley said. "I didn't expect it. It was a reward."

Bradley heard it all at the Faladelphia Cricket Club this weekend, and fans shouted "Hat! Hat!". By the standard phone number of "America!", his fan club will develop in the Northeast anyway, and 2011 PGA champion Bradley also became his name as a prominent golfer at St. John's in 2006-10. Bradley posted social media photos in March wearing a "C" on the St. John's jersey on the 25th St. John's jersey and even took his young son to Rhode Island for the NCAA Championship. The Red Storm lost to Arkansas in Providence, but the Bradley Boys exploded.

"For over 20 years, it's not really cheering for it," Bradley said. "So, having a legitimate team is not just about sneaking, it's like, wow, this team is really good. It's the first for me."

So, a performance was performed for Team USA.

Bradley, who played in just two Ryder Cup teams and never played as an assistant captain, was drafted last July because Tiger Woods couldn’t accept the role leading the 2025 game in New York’s Bethpage Black.

He held a dinner at potential Ryder Cup members (even LIV players) at Whitemarsh Valley Country Club on Tuesday and had most of the top PGA players in the town for the Truist title. Over the past ten months, Keegan has had his first organizing meeting with players, caddies, and wife to start a real discussion on the Ryder Cup.

"We've been talking to the boys for over a year," Bradley said. "It's fun, everyone is together under a roof. We call it dinner, but it's really a party."

He will receive a draft pick from six captains to call his 12 people.

Bradley played in 2014 at the Ryder Cup in Gleneagles in Scotland when Tom Watson substituted him and Phil Mickelson in another European win for two Saturday matches. Bradley made his Ryder Cup debut in Medinah in 2012, where he teamed up with Mickelson 3-0 before losing to Rory McIlroy in a single, a European win, the biggest return of a visiting team.

Bradley won seven PGA Tour victories in the 2024 BMW Championship. Since Arnold Palmer was captained at East Lake in 1963, he will be 38 years old, the youngest captain in the United States.

Bradley hopes he can be the captain of the game, but notes: “I have to do better than I am now.”

He fell into a 23-foot birdie putt in sixth place and ranked 31-foot birdie putt in threeth place, ending Saturday with two shots below 68. He entered the final round of Sunday's Wissahickon course out of real argument in his 6-shot race under 234.

"The course I grew up looking like this," he said. "I didn't take this very good course. But the big classes are all over the place. I just really want to play golf."

While most players raved about it in the course - McIlroy noted that "probably 500 or 600 yards are too short", Bradley mostly enjoyed his tour at the Cricket Club.

He really likes golf in the Northeast.

Bradley tilts, by PGA and Pennsylvania standards, the state will hold a lot of games over the next five years. The 2026 PGA Championship will be held at the Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, with the 2030 U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club.

He has a special liking for Aronimink. Bradley ranked first on the first playoff hole and won the BMW championship in 2018, his first PGA Tour victory in six years.

"I think if you're talking to every PGA Tour player, we hope we can play more in the Northeast," Bradley said. "We get this treatment every few years, which is great."

Things will be better when Bradley has the advantage of his hometown.

“Rosie and I didn’t enjoy much,” Shane Lowry of Ireland said with a smile after pairing with Bradley and Rose on Friday.

Bradley spoke like a real Captain America, selling more golf balls in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

"I think it's such a classic, such a course for the United States," Bradley said.