“We’re gonna kick their f**cking ass!” – Keegan Bradley issues Ryder Cup battle cry

The Ryder Cup blue touchpaper has been well and truly lit by Keegan Bradley. 

New footage has surfaced in Netflix golf docuseries Full Swing showing the US skipper warning Team Europe that the United States are “gonna go to Bethpage to kick their f****** ass.”

The bold claim was made by major champ Bradley in the United States’ team room during last year’s Presidents Cup.

Bradley justified his pick for Jim Furyk’s side to play Mike Weir’s Internationals at Royal Montreal in September by contributing two points to the United States’ haul, including the winning point in a one-up victory over Si Wi Kim.

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The Netflix cameras captured scenes in the team room afterwards as Bradley’s caddie Scott Vail tossed a ‘match ball’ to him, prompting this impromptu speech from the former PGA champion.

“I’m gonna get criticised as the captain next year,” he said. “They’re gonna underestimate me. They’re going to doubt me.

“I’ve been doubted my whole f**king life. That’s when I do my best work.

“We are gonna go to Bethpage to kick their f**king ass.”

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Cue delirium from the entire room.

The scene unfolds at the end of the seventh episode of the third season of Full Swing, which launched on Netflix today.

Bradley will lead the US into the 45th edition of the biennial match, which takes place at Bethpage from September 25-28.

The six-time PGA Tour winner agonisingly missed out on a place in Zach Johnson’s American side that lost the famous gold trophy to Luke Donald’s Europeans at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club in Rome in 2023.

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Michael McEwan is bunkered's Head of Content and has been part of the team since 2004. In that time, he has interviewed almost every major figure within the sport, from Jack Nicklaus, to Rory McIlroy, to Donald Trump. The host of the multi award-winning bunkered Podcast and a member of Balfron Golfing Society, Michael is the author of three books and is the 2023 PPA Scotland 'Writer of the Year' and 'Columnist of the Year'. Dislikes white belts, yellow balls and iron headcovers. Likes being drawn out of the media ballot to play Augusta National.

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