The golfer was considering becoming the first playing captain at the event since Arnold Palmer in 1963 but has ulitmately left himself out as he is focused on winning back the Ryder Cup for his country at Bethpage Black next month.

Bradley told reporters: "This was a really tough decision. I would say there was a point this year where I was playing, a while ago, and all these guys stepped up in a major way and played their way on to this team.

"That's something that I'm really proud of and something that I really wanted. But it was an extremely difficult decision but one that I'm really happy with. I'm really happy with these six players, and I'm glad it's over.

"I grew up wanting to play Ryder Cups. I grew up wanting to fight alongside these guys. It broke my heart not to play. It really did. You work forever to make these teams, but ultimately I was chosen to do a job."

The former PGA Championship winner has selected Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Ben Griffin, Cameron Young, Patrick Cantlay and Sam Burns as his captain's picks and thinks it will be best for the team if he isn't trying to juggle playing and captaincy responsibilities.

Bradley said: "I was chosen to be the captain of this team. My ultimate goal to start this thing was to be the best captain that I could be. This is how I felt like I could do this. If we got to this point and I felt like the team was better with me on it, I was going to do that.

"I was going to do whatever I thought was best for this team. I know 100 per cent for certain that this is the right choice. These six guys, again, played so incredibly coming down the stretch here and made my decision a lot easier."