Keegan Bradley confident of pulling in another victory at this week’s WGC HSBC Championship in China
PGA Championship winner, and a strong contender for the Rookie of the Year award, Keegan Bradley has now landed in China and guarantees to surge to the top at the latest WGC HSBC Championship. Bradley boosts of a shocking form and there is no doubt he holds
the merit to pull in another stellar victory of the season, after bagging one of the four major events of the year.
"I've watched that tournament on TV for as long as it's been there," said Bradley of the HSBC. "It's exciting to think I've qualified to play in that tournament. I always think of that 18th hole and the water on the right with the huge red HSBC pyramid floating
in the water. That's what comes to my mind.”
The 25-year-old Woodstock, Vermont native has done amazingly well in the season, pulling in two titles on the PGA Tour. He won the HP Byron Nelson Championship and went over to become only the third player after Francis Ouimet (1913) and Ben Curtis (2003)
to win a major title in his first appearance. He also won the PGA Grand Slam in Bermuda last month amidst a strong field comprising of Rory McIlroy and several other top ranked players. The event holds a purse of a massive $7-million and boosts one of the
strongest fields in the sport. Bradley will be facing top ranked players including Lee Westwood, Rory McIlroy, and Graeme McDowell to name a few.
Bradley is also the grandson of Pat Bradley, the Hall of Famer in Ladies Golf who is often seen walking alongside her grandson during high profile events. The young player qualified for the China event when he won the PGA Tour card as an outcome of his victory
at HP Byron Nelson and is eager to play worldwide, something not very common among the American players. He played his first Asian Course in 2009 when he received an invitation to play in Korea at the Korean Golf Tour's SK Telecom Open at the Sky 72 Golf Club
in Incheon. He posted a joint 14th.
"That was fun. I think the tournaments over there are first class and it's part of the game now to play worldwide and to get some exposure over there is an exciting thought.” said Bradley.
Bradley graduated from St John's University in New York City and played a whole season at Nationwide before progressing to the regular PGA. Coming from a humble background, Bradley’s father Mark worked as a night waterman at the Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis
Club in Jackson, Wyoming before Bradley was born. He constitutes the young brigade of American golfers who are brimming with confidence to take over the world stage after Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
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