[tense music playing]
[commentator] It's a warm Sunday in Southern New England.
Final round of the Travelers Championship, and here is the 18th hole.
[man] It's perfect, pal.
[commentator 2] Keegan calls this his fifth major.
New Englander. Grew up in Vermont.
[commentator] Who attended this tournament as a young boy,
hoping and dreaming one day he would make his life out here.
Can he deliver one here at the final hole?
Did he ever?!
[cheering and applause]
[commentator 2] Bradley's got a chance. The crowd knows it.
[commentator] Yeah, the crowd's warming up to that idea.
[Banks] Keegan Bradley is playing some of the best golf of his career.
[commentator 2] It's like a mini Ryder Cup moment right now.
[Banks] The better that Keegan Bradley plays,
the bigger the question becomes.
Will he be a playing captain at the Ryder Cup?
[commentator] Bradley wins it with this,
or if he misses, it would be a three-way playoff.
[cheering]
[commentator] A Keegan comeback not to be believed!
Are you kidding me?!
[commentator 2] You telling me you don't want this guy on your Ryder Cup team?
-Whoo! -[cheering]
[Balionis] Keegan Bradley, that one was clutch.
It would be really clutch during something like the Ryder Cup.
Have you convinced yourself that you would be an additive to this team now?
Go, USA.
Jim, back to you. [chuckles]
[Rapaport] Keegan Bradley's in a difficult spot.
He's got tough decisions to make.
It's a challenge. I'm sure it's a challenge for him.
He's in a different scenario and a different headspace
than any Ryder Cup captain's probably been in.
Let's imagine you're the captain. We're looking at a player objectively.
He's eighth in the world, with a bullet. Probably gonna go up to sixth or fifth.
He finished eighth in the PGA. He finished seventh in the Memorial.
He just won the Travelers.
And, Rich, does he have the crowd on his side?
Fires up the crowd. Went to St. John's.
-Knows Bethpage Black very well. -This guy's got the crowd, right?
-I'd be taking a hard look at that guy. -You're captain. You gotta… I mean…
This definitely changes things.
I don't wanna do the team an injustice by not considering playing
if I think it can help us.
I'm not sure it does or will, or if I will play,
but I'm gonna do what I think is best for the team.
[dramatic music playing]
[car horn honking]
-[man] How are you? -[Keegan] I'm good.
-[man] It's fun watching you. -Thank you.
You gonna ask me if I'm gonna play? Is that your next question?
[laughing]
I can see it in your face, that's the next question.
[man] No, no, no, no. I know you're gonna make the right decision.
-[Keegan] I appreciate that. -Yeah, I… [chuckles]
[Keegan] Everyone was talking about me being a player captain.
But my one rule was, I'm not even gonna consider this unless I win.
And then Travelers, that moment definitely made me go,
"All right, I can't be so closed off to this."
"I have to be ready in case I have to play."
[Jillian] So much within our marriage that's unspoken that we just know.
The win at Travelers was like, "Okay, I guess we gotta maybe start thinking
about the possibility that this could happen."
You have a chance here to become a playing captain for the first time in…
I think it's been 62 years since that last happened in a Ryder Cup.
[Balionis] When you think about what makes Keegan Bradley a great leader,
it really is what has made him a great player his entire life.
There is nobody more competitive.
This is a guy from the Northeast
who has spent his entire life with a chip on his shoulder.
Whether it's made up or not, that's the way he plays.
Like, people are always counting him out, people are always doubting his abilities,
and he always wants to answer that bell.
Nobody loves representing the Northeast more than Keegan Bradley does.
When I got this job and I didn't have the vice captains,
the thought of playing was ridiculous.
Now that I have this group of guys
that could all step in and be the captain at any moment,
if I was to play, uh,
I would lean on them a lot.
[Balionis] Keegan Bradley may have the hardest captain job to date.
Can you go ahead and rest both your hands on top of the club?
Yeah. A couple more.
[Balionis] It's not just his own game that he has to worry about.
Keegan also has to watch everyone else play
and assess who's going to earn these last six spots on his team.
And right now, the options are wide open.
Big squeeze.
[Balionis] He wants someone who's fiery,
and he wants someone who's not gonna shy away from the big moment,
because this moment is as big as it gets.
[Chris] There we go. Oh, he's drooling on me.
This is his… this is his spot.
He owns this couch.
[grunts]
You know, the 110-pound dog lays on you like he's five pounds, so…
My mom's always vacuuming.
I definitely take advantage of my mom cooking for me.
It's a big, uh…
a big perk.
I'm a week or two away from overstaying my welcome.
[woman] Do they have any, like, of your trophies?
Um…
I have some of them. They're kind of downstairs.
-I don't know. Hey, Mom. -[mom] What?
Do you… Where is my… Is my old golf stuff, um, all downstairs?
[chuckles]
It's like a PGA superstore down there.
And the Scottish one, uh, is somewhere in the world.
I don't know where. [chuckles]
[suspenseful music playing]
[Dethier] Chris Gotterup announces himself to the world at the Scottish Open.
Here he is on foreign soil.
He's playing against
specifically everyone that's gonna be on the European Ryder Cup team.
It's like, "Hm, wait a minute."
"This… this seems like a guy that would be a really good fit."
[commentator] Chris Gotterup, he's won once on the PGA TOUR.
He's one clear of big names,
McIlroy, Fitzpatrick, and Rose.
[commentator 2] He's in great position right now.
Oh wow!
[commentator] This gorgeous shot by Gotterup.
[commentator 3] And what a massive opportunity for Chris Gotterup.
[commentator 2] Oh, right in the middle.
He got the win at Myrtle Beach last year, but this would be huge. Career-changing.
[Balionis] Winning is one thing,
but thoroughly trouncing the Europeans on their own soil,
that kind of performance puts you on the map as a potential Ryder Cup pick.
[commentator] This is taking on McIlroy
and beating him head-to-head in the final round.
[man] Get in the hole!
[cheering]
[commentator] And golf has a new up-and-comer.
You may not have recognized the name at the beginning of the week,
but you're not gonna forget it now.
[Chris] I held it together really well. Man, it was so much fun out there.
We can hear the emotion in your voice. Why?
[sighs]
[weeping]
I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get it out, but, um, everyone at home…
[weeps]
I don't know. But, I mean, it's just awesome.
Like, I'm from New Jersey.
Golf-wise, it's not the mecca of PGA TOUR or professional golf.
It's cool to carry what I can
you know, by playing well and representing New Jersey and the Northeast as a whole.
[Balionis] Chris Gotterup is such a breath of fresh air
on the PGA TOUR.
He came in late, but listen, he's a Jersey Shore boy.
When do we ever have Jersey Shore guys coming out on the PGA TOUR, right?
Chris Gotterup is new to the scene. Came on sort of late in the year here.
I find it fascinating he went to Rutgers. I played at St. John's.
We were in the Big East together. I used to play at the Rutgers tournament.
Really talented player. Hits it really far.
Great short game.
He wasn't really on our radar at the start of the year.
And then won the Scottish Open and played really well at the British Open.
[Chris] It built a lot of confidence in me
that I was able to go compete against some of the best in the world
and on a big stage.
So Keegan said, the last couple of weeks,
you have to go out there and leave no doubt.
[Dethier] Keegan's definitely looking at guys who are a lot like himself.
Guys with that Northeastern grit,
guys who have a similar chip on their shoulder.
The types of guys who have felt overlooked in past Ryder Cups.
[Balionis] Cameron Young is golf royalty in terms of northern part of New York.
In the Westchester County,
I believe they're referred to as the first family of golf.
[Cameron] I'm gonna go one-handed coffee putting.
Oh God, did you guys get that one?
[Cameron] I grew up the son of a PGA head professional
in New York, Sleepy Hollow Country Club.
So my family was… was in the business,
and I basically was brought home from the hospital
and put in a golf cart and never looked back.
[reporter] Cameron Young has a mantle full of first-place trophies from 2012 alone.
[Cameron] To make that Ryder Cup team, it's been something circled on my calendar
basically since it was announced when I was in high school
that it was gonna be at Bethpage.
That place is somewhere I have loved from a very young age.
I was taken to watch the U.S. Open there when I was a little kid,
and then our state open was there every year.
[Rapaport] Cameron Young won
basically every amateur event there was to win in New York,
including when he was much younger, I think a teenager,
he set the record at Bethpage Black in the state open.
The green is so fast.
I actually see similarities with Cameron and I.
Cameron is going to the golf course with a goal.
He's gonna accomplish that goal and leave. He's not there to socialize.
And I think that maybe has held him back from maybe making some of the other teams.
2023, I got passed over, I think, from ninth on the points list.
[Zach] Cam, hey, um, thanks for taking the call.
Given where we are, it just felt like this was the right move.
At the time, I took it pretty hard.
Uh, it didn't feel good to be left off from that position.
Similar to Keegan. I know he was in, I think, 11th or 12th.
It hurt at the time, but I think, looking back,
I was playing okay, but nothing spectacular.
[Balionis] Cameron Young is an unbelievable story.
The beginning part of his season was lackluster to say the least.
I think he missed six out of his first eleven cuts.
That's not going to do it in a Ryder Cup year.
And then he starts to find something.
[commentator] In record fashion,
Cameron Young wins the Wyndham Championship of 2025.
His first victory on the PGA TOUR, after seven second-place finishes.
Where do I go? I've never done this before.
Congratulations.
[Cameron] Keegan had called me after Wyndham
and said, "Hey, buddy, you know, great playing,
but I need to see a lot more."
It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
to represent your country in your home state
at a place that I have some history at.
[Rapaport] He knows this course like the back of his hand.
So if there is a decision, "Do we wanna bring Cameron Young?"
that could be something that puts his candidacy over the top,
is his familiarity with the area.
[Cameron] Tour Championship's coming up.
That event is just a huge opportunity to cement myself
in the question for Ryder Cup.
To make that team would be
one of the greatest accomplishments of my career.
[commentator] Welcome back to another Tour Championship here at East Lake.
We're here in Atlanta for the Tour Championship.
It's… it's crunch time for the Ryder Cup.
Six guys already know on the American side
that they're gonna be on the team at Bethpage Black.
And then there's six captain's picks that are gonna be made on Tuesday.
So Keegan Bradley has a lot to chew on this week.
[Keegan] All the picks are tough. We're gonna do the best we can.
And it's gonna be controversial to certain people either way.
[Rapaport] You've got guys who I feel like have done enough to earn their spot.
Justin Thomas and Collin Morikawa.
I don't think you're ever comfortable until you get that call.
And then, you know, there's other guys who are on the bubble.
[Keegan] We're looking at guys we know can handle the situation,
can handle the Ryder Cup pressure.
[Rapaport] This year is a unique situation because Keegan Bradley is one of the guys
that Keegan is thinking about picking.
[reporter] You said this is the hardest decision.
Are you talking about possibly picking yourself? That decision?
Yeah.
When the captain has to impress the captain,
that's when it gets to be a really interesting situation.
It's a really strange thing to… to… to kind of ponder, you know,
making the picks, then thinking of picking yourself. It's ridiculous.
[Dethier] Patrick Cantlay is in that conversation.
Sam Burns, Cameron Young, Brian Harman.
Ben Griffin has been a breakout star this year on the PGA TOUR.
Maverick McNealy, I feel like, had fallen outside the conversation,
and then just played his way right back in it
with a third place at the BMW last week.
So he's in that limbo too.
There's five or six guys for two spots right now.
Chris Gotterup needs to do something special at East Lake, I think,
to really be a serious contender for one of those final spots.
[man] Look at this. A frog in the car.
[Chris] Maybe that's like a luck thing.
[man] Gotta mean something.
I'll take the good… the good vibes.
[man] Yeah, I think that's…
[Chris] Good omen.
[Dethier] Yeah, so the European team is interesting.
It seems like it's going to be the same core group.
Maybe 11 out of the 12 guys from 2023.
They've got the guys that are mathematically qualified,
including Justin Rose, who just won two weeks ago.
[commentator] And Justin Rose wins the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
[Dethier] Team Europe is geared up for the Ryder Cup,
but there's one guy who still has some unfinished business.
Tommy Fleetwood is still chasing his first PGA TOUR win.
And this is his last chance of the year.
[reporter] Other than maybe a major,
is this, like, the ultimate place to have your first win?
I think this would be… I think it would be pretty funny if I won this week
and then had the FedEx Cup as well.
Um, I think that would be funny, but, um, no, I'm not gonna be picky.
[mysterious music playing]
[meows]
[Tommy] You got four shots.
[man] I just hit a little wedge.
[Tommy] I like it.
[Tommy] We now live in Dubai.
We opened up an academy here,
and we just felt like it was an opportunity to move, really.
We'd always lived in the UK,
and I think we were always just open-minded about,
we'll give it a go, we'll move out to Dubai,
put the kids in school, we've got the academy.
You know, four years and counting,
and we're still going, and, um, it's been amazing for us.
[upbeat music playing]
[Oscar] That really didn't sound good.
It was good.
I've just hired him as a performance director for my golf.
So he's gonna do his best to try and help me out.
[Banks] Tommy Fleetwood was a top junior golfer in England.
He turned professional in 2010.
Not only did he win on the European Tour,
but he also delivered points for the European Ryder Cup team.
Everybody knows how talented Tommy Fleetwood is.
So why hasn't he won on the PGA TOUR?
[commentator] Tommy Fleetwood, he'll have plenty more chances.
He must be just a little deflated.
Today, second is the best he can do.
It's my second runner-up in a major, which is, um… which is great.
And I'm trending in the right way.
I just, um, hope my time will come eventually.
[commentator] Here is Fleetwood.
This to be no worse than in a playoff.
-Oh goodness. -[crowd] Oh!
[commentator] Absolute heartbreak for Tommy Fleetwood.
Incomprehensible in a lot of ways.
[reporter] What does the burden of trying to get that first PGA TOUR win feel like?
Obviously, there's a lot of chat about it. I… I think, um…
I would've loved to have done it today. Um…
Search goes on. I guess when it happens, it'll be very, very sweet.
[commentator] And now Tommy Fleetwood outside of seven feet.
I think this is for six one putts in a row.
-[commentator 2] Gosh. -[commentator] A terrible putt.
Unbelievable.
There are a lot of Tommy Fleetwood fans out there
who are absolutely crushed right now.
[reporter] Your optimism is something that fans really continue to admire,
truly. Um…
Where do you draw that from, and how does it continue to drive you?
Well, as long as they stay with me and stay on my side,
then we can all look for the positives.
[Luke] Tommy has had some really tough losses.
And you know, I was trying to message him a bunch of times
throughout that process that,
you know, it's putting yourself in those positions
and learning from what you did well and what you didn't do well,
is a really strong thing, as long as you frame it the right way.
I'm well aware of, like, the story that's building of not won on the PGA TOUR
and I've had chances, and I haven't closed things out.
So I'm… I'm aware of all that stuff.
But once something's happened, there's nothing you can do about it.
You just deal with what happens next.
It's sometimes difficult, but you have to force yourself mentally
to accept what's happened and then crack on. [chuckles]
[Oscar] Obviously, there's been some times that we rather would go a different way,
but this season he's… he's got a lot closer.
He's always gonna believe in himself being a PGA TOUR winner,
but I think he looks really close.
[commentator] Overcast skies continue over the city of Atlanta
as we say good morning from East Lake
and the second round of the Tour Championship
to decide the FedEx Cup.
From 232 for Ben Griffin.
[commentator 2] Oh! What a shot.
[commentator 3] Another guy looking for that Ryder Cup pick.
[commentator] This is the 12th, and the second for McNealy.
[commentator 2] Off to a slow start yesterday. Trying to bring things back.
[commentator] McNealy now tenth in Ryder Cup points.
[commentator 2] A lot of guys trying to get
Captain Keegan Bradley's attention this week.
[commentator] Cameron Young in the fairway from 125.
Pin location tucked on that front right here.
Keegan Bradley to get it to five under.
[commentator 2] Oh yeah.
[commentator] He's made some long ones, including three in a row.
[commentator 2] Wonder what's going through that brain of his.
[commentator] A lot.
[commentator 2] Couple days to the picks for the Ryder Cup.
[commentator] At 14, Gotterup trying to keep this run going.
He has really gotten into gear after the first round.
[commentator 2] There's some late break there.
[commentator] That gets him to six under for the day.
Chris Gotterup has raced up the board with those six birdies.
[commentator 2] Meanwhile, Cameron Young on the tee at 11 with a six iron.
[commentator] For this hole location, you have to fly it over here and stop it.
-Oh! -[commentator 2] Like that?
[commentator] Just like that.
[commentator 2] Fleetwood looking for a lengthy birdie.
[commentator] Unlikely putt to make, but giving it a run.
-Oh! -[commentator 2] Unlikely, you say?
[commentator] That hit the back of the hole.
Up by two, Tommy Fleetwood.
[commentator 3] This is gonna be a big weapon for the European players.
[commentator 2] The Europeans will be heavy favorites at the Ryder Cup.
[suspenseful music playing]
[commentator] Tommy's just been rolling through the playoffs,
but still hasn't broken through.
Possibly down the slope.
I think the wind's this way now. Don't you think?
-Yeah. -Very light, but I think it's enough.
All right, you don't have to hit it hard, then.
All right.
[commentator] Talk about a disappointment in Memphis for Fleetwood.
The latest of the disappointments.
He let one get away at the Travelers.
How crazy it would be
if Fleetwood was able to break through at this Tour Championship.
[tense music playing]
[applause]
[Tommy] You're down to the last event, and you wanna get off to a good start.
Early on in my career,
I would get to the end of the season and I'd always be pretty tired.
You start playing poorly. Your attitude kind of drops.
You get a bit angry at things. Just waiting for the season to finish.
And I remember looking at the very, very best players,
and they always seemed so fresh and ready, like, all the way to the very end.
[commentator 3] Beautiful speed there.
[Tommy] I remember watching and I thought, "I need to work on that."
"I need to… That's where I need to be."
And I'm always striving to be one of the best players.
[woman] Whoo!
[man] Yeah, Tommy!
[commentator] 64, 63 for Fleetwood.
Fleetwood and Henley share the lead at the halfway mark.
[Maverick] I'm already trying to channel everything I can into this week.
Getting the call from Keegan saying I'm in would be an incredible vote of confidence.
It would be an incredible responsibility
to compete for an entire country that's rooting for us to kick their asses.
So I hope that I can play well enough to earn that spot.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Chris] When I think of the Ryder Cup and, you know, the magnitude of it,
it's hard to not make it a bigger deal than what it is,
but, you know, I try to do my best.
[grunts]
It's not like I'm playing scared here in these last couple of weeks to make it.
At the start of the year, if you said "Ryder Cup," I'd be like,
"I have no chance."
"I mean, unless I go catch fire," and I did that,
and, you know, hopefully I finish this week off strong
and have a chance.
[Cameron] I'm feeling pretty good. I feel like I've kind of got it in my hands.
And I think having a good finish
opens up just my mind to the fact that I can do it anywhere.
And it's just a really good proving ground
for what kind of mental toughness you bring to the table,
which is obviously essential in those team events.
All right.
Oh, our ACs are off.
-[Ben] They are off. -[Dana] Oh no.
[Ben] I feel like I still need to prove a lot this week at the Tour Championship.
There's a lot of things going through Keegan's mind right now, I'm sure.
But all I know is I have to continue to play exceptionally high-level golf
and prove to Keegan that he should have no doubt in picking me.
-What is this thing? -[Dana] It's a red-light mask.
Let's put it on.
[chuckling]
Yeah, so normally, so… Dana and I, when we get done with our morning rounds,
I put on--
[Dana] I can't take you seriously.
We buy, like, Halloween costumes.
[Dana] Is this what I look like when I do this?
-So I've been-- -[Ben] Oh my God, that is bright.
-So-- -[Ben] What does it do?
[Dana] It's supposed to brighten your… your complexion.
You know, I was out there on the 12th hole today,
I was like, "Man, my complexion just doesn't feel right."
And I knew I just… After the round, I needed to put this on.
[laughing]
-Thinking about this all day. -Take this off. You look crazy.
[commentator] Today, live third-round coverage of the Tour Championship.
[commentator 2] The question looms again. Is this the week for Tommy Fleetwood?
[commentator] Important for everybody,
especially this man, Ben Griffin at seven under. Trying to change that.
[cheering and applause]
[commentator] You got this, which is huge,
and then of course that little event at the end of September, the Ryder Cup.
[commentator 2] This is the final opportunity
for those captain's picks this week.
[commentator] Cam Young, he's involved in that Ryder Cup discussion.
He's, uh, high up in a lot of nice categories.
[applause]
[commentator] Fourth best in scoring average on par fours,
something Ryder Cup captains look at.
And here is the captain.
[commentator 2] Feel like you gotta make birdie on this hole.
This… Today especially. He's gonna use that slope perfectly.
-Go in. -[commentator] Oh man, the captain!
[cheering and applause]
He's gotta pick himself now.
[commentators laugh]
[commentator] Don't know how he's doing it.
The decisions and he's playing this caliber of golf. It's amazing.
[Keegan] Being the captain is my number-one job.
I think I've done a good job of separating myself as a player.
When I'm inside the ropes playing, I'm not the captain.
I'm a player.
You know, this is where I can let that aspect of my life
sort of fade a little bit.
[commentator] Bradley trying to get it to 11 under.
[Keegan] And as soon as I leave the rope s, I have to resume my role as captain.
[commentator] He's got that confident walk going there.
That little strut that Keegan Bradley has when he's playing well.
[commentator 3] He's got the bounce in the step right now too.
[cheering]
[commentator] That's a birdie finish for Bradley and a 63.
You know, try not to pick me.
[commentators laughs]
[commentator] Seriously.
Maverick McNealy for birdie.
[commentator 2] A tough one. Not easy to match up line and speed.
Goes hard left at the hole.
Gave it a little bit too much. Too much speed, too much break.
[commentator] Chris Gotterup here at the 6th. This is for birdie.
[commentator 3] Slow putt up the hill. Not what you would like at the 6th hole.
Easiest hole on the golf course. But it'll be a four on the scorecard.
[commentator] Back over to 15.
He's on the left side of the tee box. Expect him to use this wind.
[commentator 3] Hung out to the right.
-[commentator] Hates it. -[commentator 3] It's wet.
-Not even close. -[commentator] Wouldn't have got there.
[commentator 3] At some point, you're just thinking, "Nothing will be easy for me."
[Tommy] A terrible swing, hitting it in the water. Made double bogey.
But whatever shot you just hit,
there's no point in allowing that to make the next one even worse.
[commentator 3] Fleetwood from that bunker.
Oh, stay! Stay!
Shit.
[commentator] Ooh, it's on the edge.
There's that big slope to the right, and it just hangs in.
[Tommy] I was sure it was going down that massive slope.
Little things like that that go your way, I always feel are so important.
[commentator 3] You've got to tip your hat to him for playing an aggressive 2nd shot
coming off the double.
[commentator] Wow!
That is what you call a bounce back.
[cheering and applause]
[commentator] Heck of a comeback after that double.
[commentator 3] Can't say enough about it. But that's been Tommy through it all.
Every tournament he goes to, he's asked about it.
"When are you gonna win?"
[Tommy] I'm in the lead again.
There's opportunities that have gone before that I've missed,
or not won tournaments when I feel like I could've.
Tommy's one of my best mates on tour. You know, he is the best.
I want this one for Tommy. He's already paid his dues.
He's suffered a couple of tricky defeats, and, um, he's ready for the big time.
[Shane] I've actually known Tommy a long time.
He's Mr. Nice Guy, but I think you have to be a bit of a killer in you,
and I think he has that.
And his game is unbelievable.
And he's showing that now. The best is probably yet to come for him.
[Tommy] I'm in the exact position where everybody else wants to be
when they tee it up that week.
My energy's good. Focus is good.
I'm playing well, and I've got to the end of the PGA season and I feel great.
I'm excited and nervous,
and everything you should be when you're in contention.
[commentator] It all comes down to this with 18 holes left to play.
Just the last day of the season. Nothing to see.
-[boy] Go! Yeah, Keegs. You got this. -[man] Go, Keegs.
Let's go, Tommy. Good luck. You got this. You got this.
[commentator] The feel-good story of the playoffs.
Tommy Fleetwood with a two-shot lead over the field.
[man 2] Let's go, Tommy!
[commentator 2] At the 1st, Maverick McNealy.
[commentator 3] Here's a guy that may be in the Ryder Cup talks.
[commentator] Now that certainly doesn't help.
That is in bounds by the skin of his teeth.
Go back to the 9th now, and Chris Gotterup.
[commentator 3] A ton of speed, which will help him
elevate this ball to this tucked pin.
[commentator] Wow, what a shot by Gotterup.
[cheering and applause]
[commentator] Chris Gotterup, a couple of birdies today.
Meanwhile, we'll check in, Cam Young at 13.
[commentator 3] Time to start getting aggressive at this point.
Great shot.
[applause]
[commentator 3] Of all those guys pursuing,
Cam Young is looking the best.
Just needs to see a few more putts go in now.
[crowd] Oh.
[commentator 2] That was a golden opportunity for Cam.
[commentator] Cameron Young trying to save his par.
I just can't make a damn thing.
[commentator 3] And that has been the story of the day for Cameron Young.
That putter that has been so good all year long has just left him.
[commentator] There's the captain, who can't be paying attention to Cam today.
[commentator 3] A must-make now if you're Keegan Bradley.
-[man 3] Keeg! -[crowd] Oh!
[commentator 3] Untimely bogey.
[commentator 2] Just can't have any indecision over this golf ball.
You gotta know exactly what you're trying to do.
Oh boy.
[crowd] Oh!
[commentator] The contenders continue to drop.
Fleetwood to extend the lead.
Oh, he just keeps answering the bell.
[commentator 2] Let's go, Tommy.
Three clear.
[commentator] Now Cameron Young for birdie at the 18th and a round of 66.
Is that enough to play your way to Bethpage?
[commentator 3] It doesn't hurt.
[commentator] Tommy Fleetwood walks to the 72nd hole
with a three-shot lead.
If you're a Tommy Fleetwood fan,
in the back of your mind, you might've thought,
"No, this… this is too good to be true."
"This… this can't come true here."
[Tommy] You've missed out so many times.
Either you've hit a poor shot at the wrong time,
or you've not done the right things to finish,
or somebody's done something crazy and beat you.
When you've missed out that many times, like, it just never feels like it's done.
-[man 4] Oh my God! -[man 5] Oh my God!
[applause]
[Tommy] Like any normal person, I get disappointed.
I get sad. I get angry.
But at the same time, I think experiences are there to learn from.
And there's no point making things a negative experience.
You just have to learn from everything and try and do the best you can.
-[man 6] Yeah, Tommy! -[fans] Tommy!
[commentator] Justin Rose, Shane Lowry, they're not going anywhere.
They wanna see this happen.
[cheering and applause]
[Ian] Let's go!
I had my hand like this or like that.
And I said… I was just holding my lip, 'cause my bottom lip was going.
I was getting really emotional.
It all sets in.
It's like, "Oh my God."
"He's actually gonna do it. He's actually gonna do it."
[Tommy] Fino handed me the putter when I walked on.
I'd have loved to have, like, given each other a smile or something.
And I was just, like, so focused on just trying to finish this off.
[commentator] The build-up here for Tommy Fleetwood
as the stage is cleared.
The agonizing wait is over!
Fleetwood, finally, for everything, the FedEx Cup title!
[crowd chanting] Tommy! Tommy!
[cheering]
[uplifting music playing]
What's up? You okay?
[chuckles]
[Tommy] Being able to hug Oscar… It's easy saying,
"Have the right attitude, say and do the right things."
But it's also, like, you want proof that the good stuff will happen as well.
So to be able to show him that, that was really, really sweet and moving.
[crowd chanting] Tommy! Tommy! Tommy! Tommy! Tommy! Tommy!
[indistinct chatter]
[music fades]
[Balionis] Watching the Europeans celebrate Tommy's Tour Championship win,
you can't help but think, "Whoo, that is a stacked team."
In terms of his captain's picks,
he has to make some heartbreaking decisions.
I honestly can't imagine the pressure that Keegan Bradley's under.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Jillian] You know, back in July a year prior, when we signed on for this,
it… it was… this elephant, dark shadow
in our… our orbits of, like, "That's coming,"
where you're gonna be the guy making those calls.
And we know how much we wanted to be a part of these teams.
[suspenseful music intensifies]
[music fades]
[Keegan] We're gonna go Cam Young.
[line ringing]
[Cameron] Hey, Keegan.
Hello, Cam, how you doing?
[Cameron] I'm great. How are you?
I'm doing good.
Um… you getting any rest, or how was last night?
[Cameron] Uh, it was good. We just landed in Palm Beach in Florida.
[Keegan] Okay, brother, listen.
I need you on this Ryder Cup team.
-[child speaking indistinctly on phone] -Did you hear me?
[Cameron] I did. I don't know what to say.
Listen, man, um, I'm so proud of the way that you played
with all this on your shoulders.
[Cameron] He basically said,
being a captain's pick means that we need you and want you on this team,
which I thought was very meaningful.
I believe in you. We believe in you, like, more than you know.
Like, I just need you to come and be Cameron Young.
That's… that's all we need you to be.
[Cameron] Yeah, it means a lot, Keegan. I really appreciate that.
And, um… um, dude, I'm so excited, man. I can't wait.
I know you are.
[Cameron] For me to hear, it was really cool.
I felt like a couple of months prior, I wouldn't have even been in the question.
So to get that call was really, really validating to me.
-Keegan, thank you very much. -All right, I'll… I'll… I'll be in touch.
-[Cameron] Good. I appreciate it. Bye. -See you.
[Keegan sighs]
That's great. He's been wanting to do this.
[Jillian] The most words I've heard him say!
-Yeah. [laughs] -[Jillian laughs]
-[Dana] I'm just excited to know. -[Ben] I know.
Then we can plan our lives.
It's hard to stay patient. It's just like, can we get this over with?
[line ringing]
And, like, every single second…
Are we next?
Or it might be Uber Eats.
-Oh, Uber calling you. -Oh.
[Keegan] Patrick. Hey, brother, how you doing?
I want to invite you to be on the Ryder Cup team, brother.
[phone ringing]
-[Sam] Hello? -[Keegan] Sam Burns, how you doing?
[Sam] What's up? I'm great. How you doing?
-Get any sleep last night? -[Sam] What do you think?
I want you on this Ryder Cup team.
[Sam] Wow.
-Um… -[Sam] Whoa.
-Okay. Thank you. -Thank you.
-Oh yeah. -Do you want me to take the…
[line ringing]
[Ben] Keegan.
Hello, Ben Griffin.
-[Ben] How you doing, Keegan Bradley? -How you doing?
I'm doing well. Just, uh, been an anxious maybe, uh, 15 hours or so.
-[Keegan] I've been there before. -I know.
[Keegan] I know how tough these waits are. Um…
-You wanna play in the Ryder Cup team? -Absolutely, baby. Oh my gosh!
[Keegan] I can't tell you how proud I am of how you've played this year.
Making the United States Ryder Cup team
is one of the toughest teams to make in the world.
And you played your ass off the entire year.
You left no doubt.
Not only are we excited to have you on the team,
but we need you on the team to win.
[Ben] I really appreciate your belief in me
and can't wait to represent the United States.
This is an incredible honor.
You really need to enjoy this, 'cause what a captain's pick means
is all the vice captains want you and all the players want you.
That's how our team feels.
All right, let's do it. Let's go win this thing.
-[Keegan] Congrats. -Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
-[Keegan] You got it. Bye. -Bye.
-You did it! -Let's go!
-[Dana cries] -Crazy.
All right.
[chuckles]
-What do you think, Pen? -[Jillian] You approve?
[Keegan] It's weird because, you know, you do these good calls,
but you really only think about the bad calls.
Happy with the decisions we've made,
but my heart breaks for the guys who didn't make it.
[somber music playing]
We were going to sleep, really, and my phone started going off,
and I was like, "Keegan Bradley."
-I was like, "Oh shit." Like-- -I was like, "Oh shit." [chuckles]
[Maverick] He was very upfront,
and it was 15 seconds into the call
that he just said, "We're gonna let you know we're going a different direction."
My first reaction was just disappointment.
It felt like all of the air was let out of this expanding balloon, really.
Being a rookie, the first team is really hard to make
and you have to go make a splash.
I did that, but, obviously, you know, I think with the playoffs and BMW,
I don't think I totally deserved to be on the team.
I felt like I left it all out there and I did what I could.
-[Samantha] Love you. -Love you too.
[Maverick] I can't really question the decision,
because nobody wants to win that Ryder Cup more than Keegan Bradley.
[reporter] Breaking news out of the golf world.
Keegan Bradley will not be playing for the US Ryder Cup team.
He will only captain it.
This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it felt like, Shane,
not only for Bradley, but for us to see everything that goes along with it.
Will it work? Won't it work? All the noise around it.
[pundit] Fascinating decision by Keegan Bradley.
It's totally selfless.
I can't imagine what he had to go through.
[Keegan] After Travelers, I was gonna play.
I was trying to figure out how I'm gonna do both these jobs.
And then, during the playoffs,
you know, a bunch of the guys really stepped up and played well.
We, as captains, we just kept talking about just how great everybody looked.
And I just had this extreme sense of pride
to be the leader of this team.
So I made the decision that I wasn't playing.
[Cameron] Keegan's one of the best players in the world.
If anybody else is the captain, he's on the team.
I think he embraced it incredibly well.
[Ben] He's literally the perfect captain for this Ryder Cup.
He brings the most energy for that region than any other golfer.
He had to sacrifice so much, and I felt for him really badly.
But now we're ready to go out there and fight for Keegan,
for the country, and for each other.
[Keegan] This is the best team on the planet right now.
This is our time.
Everything they've worked for in their life has led to this moment.
[commentator] Oh my gosh!
Bring it home, boys!
[commentator] Welcome to a scene unlike any other in the game.
-The opening tee at the Ryder Cup. -Come on!
Tensions can rise at any given time.
-You suck! -[man] Europe is a joke!
[commentator] Whoa! It's gotten heated.
They have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
We got this. We got this.
Make more noise! You're getting drowned out! Come on!
-[commentator] The cup is on the line. -[Rose] It's gonna be huge.
It's gonna be the mother of all Ryder Cups.
[dramatic music playing] of all Ryder Cups.