{"id":3354,"date":"2026-08-07T01:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/3354\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T01:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:12:12","slug":"keegan-bradley-gets-2-1million-ryder-cup-consolation-after-brutal-shane-lowry-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/3354\/","title":{"rendered":"Keegan Bradley gets $2.1million Ryder Cup consolation after brutal Shane Lowry comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keegan Bradley was given 2.1million reasons to be less disappointed about the Ryder Cup on Friday. <\/p>\n

The defeated US captain got his revenge on two of Team Europe’s most important players by winning the first Official Skins Game in 17 years in Florida. <\/p>\n

\"Keegan<\/p>\n

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Bradley oversaw Team USA’s first Ryder Cup defeat on home soil for 13 years in SeptemberCredit: Getty\"Lowry<\/p>\n

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Lowry holed the winning putt for Team Europe two months ago – but was dominated by Bradley on FridayCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Bradley took on fellow American Xander Schauffele, England’s Tommy Fleetwood and Ireland’s Shane Lowry in a lucrative end-of-season exhibition. <\/p>\n

Each player started the match with $1m, which was then adjusted based on how much money was won or lost over the course of the match. <\/p>\n

Every hole was assigned a monetary ‘skin’ – and whoever shot the lowest score on that hole took the prize. <\/p>\n

If there was no outright winner, the skin rolled over to the next hole, increasing the value. <\/p>\n

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The first five holes were worth $100,000 each and then gradually increased in value until the 16th was worth a whopping $600,000. <\/p>\n

Fleetwood, who was the leading points scorer at the Ryder Cup, claimed the biggest single-hole prize, making a putt for $1.125m on the 16th hole after four skins had rolled over. <\/p>\n

But it was Bradley who won the day, bagging 11 skins and a $2.1m pay cheque as a result. <\/p>\n

Fleetwood was the second-biggest beneficiary with $1.7m, while Lowry claimed a $200,000 prize by winning one skin. <\/p>\n

World No.3 Schauffele was left empty-handed, walking away with a grand total of zero dollars.<\/p>\n

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Schauffele was the only golfer from the four-man group who came away with nothingCredit: GettyRyder Cup revenge<\/p>\n

Given Lowry holed the winning putt at the Ryder Cup in New York two months ago, there was an obvious undercurrent of America vs Europe in Florida. <\/p>\n

Before the event began, Lowry said: “Kegan\u2019s already paid me and Tommy extra to not talk about Ryder Cup.”<\/p>\n

To which Bradley responded: “I won\u2019t have a walkie-talkie in my hand on Friday. I\u2019ll have a golf club, which is my chance to get back at these two maniacs down here.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the match, after holing a ten-footer at the third to prevent Bradley winning a $225,000 skin, Lowry said: “I’ve just spent the last few months breaking Keegan Bradley’s heart.”<\/p>\n

And Bradley did not hide his satisfaction upon getting a small piece of revenge on the two Europeans. <\/p>\n

After winning hole five, Bradley admitted: “Oh man, that felt good.<\/p>\n

“I need as much revenge against Tommy and Shane as I can get. That’s a start.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keegan Bradley was given 2.1million reasons to be less disappointed about the Ryder Cup on Friday. The defeated…","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_volume":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[21,1363,24,40,1519,55],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-keegan-bradley","tag-keegan-bradley","tag-prize-money","tag-ryder-cup","tag-shane-lowry","tag-skins-game","tag-tommy-fleetwood","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}