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Keegan Bradley, the amazing rookie winner of the PGA Championship, says he can't wait to take his place at Asia's only World Golf Championship, the WGC-HSBC Champions, in Shanghai in November.
The 25-year-old nephew of LPGA prodigy Pat Bradley had before now booked his ticket to China when he sealed his maiden PGA Tour win at the Byron Nelson Championship in May. He certain he'd be one of the star of the demonstrate in Shanghai when he attached the flood of current first-time Major winners and place his name next to individuals of Francis Oiumet (1913) and Ben Curtis (2003) as merely the third player in the times gone by of golf to win such a prominent title at his first challenge. Further icing on the cover came most recent week when he won the four-player Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda.
"I've watch that tournament on TV for as long as it's been in attendance. I can retain information a lot of the holes. It's exhilarating to think I've capable to play in that tournament. I always think of that 18th opening and the water on the right with the enormous red HSBC pyramid floating in the water. That's what comes to my intellect Bradley says.
"I remember when Phil slid his fix in place right under and then chipped it and made par (in 2009). I commit to memory that. It's a immense tournament. It's going to be an honour to go there. It's an exciting obsession. For a rookie like me it's a no-brainer; that's one of the tourist attractions of the schedule."
Born and raised in New England, Bradley graduated from St John's University in New York City and work his way through the Hooters and Nationwide Tours previous to earning his PGA Tour card for the 2011 season. His only previous knowledge of playing in Asia was in 2009 at the Korean Golf Tour's SK Telecom Open at the Sky 72 Golf Club in Incheon. He ended 14th in an event won by Park Sang-Hyun.
"That be fun. I had a playmate who worked in excess of there and he got me a sponsor's invite and I got to go over: people were so nice and it was if truth be told, really fun so I'm really looking forward to being paid back over there. My buddy Brendan Steele played over in Europe former this year and he loved it. It's a amusing thing to be able to go and play over there and to be in such a great tournament. I think the tournaments over there are first class and it's part of the game now to play international and to get some experience over there is an exciting thinking. Everybody's so nice. It seems like golf is a worldwide game so people actually can relate and understand what you're going through. It's exciting."
Bradley's eagerness to get to China can be traced back to a additional humble education that the name of his well-known aunt might suggest. His father Mark was in the beginning a night waterman at the Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis Club in Jackson, Wyoming before returning east to become a golf professional just before Keegan was born.
"Everything for me is a additional benefit out here. I didn't grow up with a lot so anything that happen out here is a huge bonus. I try to look at it that way. I got nothing to lose, appealing much. Dad was a club pro and I'd just travel approximately with him. I'd get up early and go to work with him and hang out at the course all day. Golf was what I always loved and I still love it. I'm lucky to be out here!" Bradley explains.
Bradley's also lucky that one of the players to take him beneath his wing this season has been four-time Major champion Phil Mickelson, who is also a two-time winner of the HSBC Champions. The stories he heard from Mickelson and his other friends on tour just finished Keegan even keener to go to China.
"Everyone's got nothing but huge equipment to say. I would be honoured to play. Every single person I've talked to says it's a great experience. They just said China's a really cold situate and that the tournament treat you grand and cater to whatever the player desires, which is really, really cool. I've played on a lot of mini Tournaments and they do just about the contradictory of that. When you obtain out here and get to be treat like this is a delight," Bradley says.
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