Keegan Bradley knew that 2025 would be a personal and professional special year for him, considering he would lead the Ryder Cup team at Bethpage Black this fall.
But he's already had an astonishing few weeks. Not only does he have two top-10 finishes, but the captain has a pair of holes in ones.
Just one month after making an ace on the third hole of Torrey Pines South during the final round of Genesis Invitational. Bradley made a hole-in-one TPC Sawgrass' PAR-3 hole 13.
Again, tournament officials placed the pins at the traditional Sunday Hall location on the 13th. It sits dangerously close to the water, making a nerve-pounding tee shot, but the greens are severely sloped from right to left towards the pin. Usually, players fire towards the middle of the green, hoping the ball will tumble down the hill into a hole. In that sense, it resembles the 16th hole at Augusta National.
However, Bradley fires the flag to the right, and decides to completely ignore the swell. He turned to the stick and the movement to do so paid off. Bradley's ball landed on the right about two feet right of the cup, hops several times and spins it into the hole.
Now he has to buy drinks again for the Media Center, a classy gesture he made in San Diego four weeks ago.
Bradley's ace has won him at 6 under in the five championships of the lead at this writing.
Jack Mirco is a golf staff writer who plays SB Nation. Follow him with x @jack_milko.
