Keegan Bradley is a major champion and a longstanding member of the PGA Tour. A stalwart if you will.
Having turned professional in 2008, Bradley will no doubt one day pass the 400-event mark on the PGA Tour and in that time, he has many trophies and memories to show for it.
He won for the first time on the US circuit at the HP Byron Nelson Championship in 2011 and in the same year, he became a major champion at the PGA Championship.
Despite making a triple bogey on the par-3 15th hole in the final round at Atlanta Athletic Club, Bradley battled his way back and Jason Dufner threw away a lead from an extremely dominant position.
Bradley beat his fellow American by a shot in the three-hole aggregate playoff. Although Bradley has seven PGA Tour wins and 10 professional wins in general, the PGA Championship is still the crowning moment of his career thus far.
Bradley is a passionate resident of the United States, to say the least, and he has shown as much when donning the red, white and blue at the Ryder Cup. In two appearances in 2012 and 2014, he formed a formidable partnership with Phil Mickelson. However, Bradley and Team USA lost the Ryder Cup on both occasions and he conceded the losing point at Gleneagles in 2014 to European hero Jamie Donaldson.
His passion for the biennial matches with Europe is clear for all to see in season two and season three of Full Swing, the Netflix show that follows the lives of various professional golfers. Also in this show, fans meet Jillian, Bradley’s wife and we get a peak behind the scenes at their family life.
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Who is Jillian Bradley?
Bradley married Jillian Stacey in December 2016 in Palm Beach, Florida, an area and a state where many of the world’s best players live. They reportedly began seeing each other in 2012.
Jillian was born in October 1987. She has an older sister called Meggan and she attended Hartford High School, then Eastern Connecticut State University. Both Bradleys grew up in Vermont where their family home is shown in Full Swing.
The pair have two children together: Logan and Cooper. It isn’t clear online what Jillian does for work.
In season two of Full Swing, Bradley’s heartbreaking omission from the 2023 US Ryder Cup team was one of the standout stories of the show. The cameras picked up captain Zach Johnson delivering the news neither he nor his wife Jillian wanted to hear.
“The Ryder Cup means so much to Keegan, and he’ll say it’s some of the best and absolute worst memories of his life,” she said.
“He still has the Ryder Cup suitcase. He just never unpacked it. I think it is just the thought of opening it, reliving the grief of how that ended, was just kind of too much to bear.”
Remarkably after season two was digested by golf fans, players and pundits alike, Bradley was named US Ryder Cup captain for 2025 and given his current form and world ranking, it isn’t beyond the realms of possibility that he plays for his own team.
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