Thursday’s naming of Tom Watson as captain of the 2014 U.S. Ryder Cup team sparked a swell of reactions from golfers and analysts alike. The cheekiest, however, came from Rory McIlroy, who accepted Keegan Bradley’s enthusiastic acclamation of Watson’s captaincy as a chance to get in a dig -- two years ahead of the next contest.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>You wanna get beaten again already!? ”@<a href="https://twitter.com/keegan_bradley">keegan_bradley</a>: All this Ryder Cup talk is getting me excited.Can we play now??!!!! <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%232moreyears">#2moreyears</a>”</p>— Rory Mcilroy (@McIlroyRory) <a href="https://twitter.com/McIlroyRory/status/278969713197993984" data-datetime="2012-12-12T21:08:57+00:00">December 12, 2012</a></blockquote>
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This year’s PGA winner, of course, almost missed his tee time for Sunday’s singles finale and then went on to beat the 2011 PGA champ, 2 and 1, in September’s contest at Medinah. The two are likely to meet again at Gleneagles in Scotland but it would seem the world No. 1 was already 1-up on Bradley after that tweet.
