Lee Westwood’s brutal Ryder Cup put down ‘hit | Sports News

Team USA captain Keegan Bradley did not recognize a brutal jab from golf legend Lee Westwood at a pre-Ryder Cup dinner.

Bradley sat subsequent to Ryder Cup veteran Westwood at a pre-tournament gathering in 2014 earlier than the showdown at Gleneagles. The American golfer opened up about Europe’s ‘Miracle in Medinah’ victory, revealing how it “hit him hard” and how he wasn’t planning to unpack his baggage for that 12 months’s match earlier than Westwood delivered a crushing blow.

Junior Ryder Cup captain Stephen Gallacher, who competed on Paul McGinley’s triumphant 2014 squad, shared the hilarious story on the Daily Record’s Ryder Cup Preview Show. This follows Bradley’s protection of Team USA relating to their contentious alternative forward of the match.

The Scottish golfer, who’s captaining the Scottish squad on the Junior version of the occasion, defined: “We’re sitting at the official dinner, 2014. Kelvingrove Art Gallery. It’s amazing.

“I’m sitting subsequent to Keegan Bradley, [Lee] Westwood sitting over there, our wives are round there and we simply begin getting speaking and Bradley says Medinah hit him laborious, actually laborious.”

“So a lot so, he says ‘I’ve obtained my two suitcases, all my gear, the whole lot, all zipped up untouched in my cabinet in my spare room’. Westwood seemed over and says: ‘I hope you’ve got obtained a massive cabinet by the best way since you’ve obtained two more coming!’ He did not actually take it very effectively, you understand one of those.

“And I thought: ‘Well done Westy, that’s one in the ribs straight away!’ Westy’s played about eight Ryder Cups or whatever and he could say that. And I thought that’s a belter, but he didn’t really take it well.

“There’s a good banter, back within the day there was more of a America was America and we’re [over] right here, however now they play in opposition to one another each week.”

The Scottish golfer is optimistic about the junior teams’ performance in Rome, as they gear up for the second and third day in Nassau before wrapping up on Thursday at Bethpage Black amidst a massive crowd.

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Gallacher expressed: “I imply, I’m simply blessed. I’ve obtained a entrance row seat watching the following no 1, the following Ryder Cup, the following Solheim Cup. I get them for a couple of days and it is simply attempting to make them take pleasure in themselves and exit and do the identical factor they obtained them within the staff. And simply soak it in.

“I’m just telling them to soak it in. If history repeats itself, the players that I’ve played in the Ryder Cup, Junior Ryder Cup, is off the charts. So it’s going to be one of you guys here, either the boy or girl, that’s going to be in a Solheim or a Ryder Cup.

“I’ve obtained two gamers from final 12 months which are enjoying, so there’s ten new faces. I simply wish to get them enjoying as a staff as shortly as potential and simply take pleasure in it. Just do the identical golf they obtained you in.

“If they can do that, who knows? If they win, brilliant. If they don’t, we’ve all done our best.”