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US captain Keegan Bradley says he will have a “hard look” at whether he should play in September’s Ryder Cup after <\/b>his dramatic one-shot victory<\/b><\/a> in the Travelers Championship on Sunday.<\/b><\/p>\n Bradley, 39, birdied the last hole of his final round in Connecticut to deny England’s Tommy Fleetwood the chance to win his first PGA Tour title.<\/p>\n Victory moved him seventh in the world rankings and ninth in the American Ryder Cup qualification standings. The top six in the latter qualify automatically for the event in Bethpage, New York, with another six players given captain’s picks. <\/p>\n Arnold Palmer was the Ryder Cup’s last playing captain, when he led the US team aged 34 in 1963.<\/p>\n “It’s still June so we have got a long way to go [but] this definitely changes things a little bit,” said Bradley – the youngest captain since Palmer.<\/p>\n “This definitely opens the door to play. I don’t know if I’m going to do it or not but I certainly have to take a pretty hard look at what’s best for the team.<\/p>\n “Every year I was out here, I wanted to play on the Ryder Cup team, and then this would be the first year where maybe I didn’t want to. I just wanted to be the captain and, of course, this is what happens.”<\/p>\n Bradley’s most recent Ryder Cup appearance was in the defeat at Gleneagles in 2014, having also played on the losing side two years earlier.<\/p>\n He missed out on a place in 2023 when Justin Thomas, who was below him on the points list and struggling for form, was preferred by captain Zach Johnson <\/p>\n