LIV Golf stars will love Keegan Bradley's latest message about the Ryder Cup!

US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley has confirmed LIV Golf players will very much be part of his thinking when he comes to making up his 12-man team to face Europe at Bethpage Black in 2025. 

Bradley, 38, was last month announced by the PGA of America as a shock choice to lead the line for the stars and stripes in New York next September.

Tiger Woods had been the front runner for the captaincy but the former World No.1 declined the offer as he has too much on his plate right now. 

Other major champions such as Fred Couples, Davis Love III and Stewart Cink were also overlooked for the position.

While Bradley still has eyes firmly set on making the US Ryder Cup team as a player, he is already contemplating the '12 best players' that could make up his side next year.

As it stands, six players will come through the automatic standings and then Bradley will be afforded six captain's picks. 

Bradley has confirmed he will not pick himself and the only way he will play is if he comes through the automatics. 

Last year's defeated Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson had just one LIV Golf player on his team in Brooks Koepka. 

Johnson was heavily criticised by a number of American golf fans for not picking Bryson DeChambeau, who won two times on LIV Golf before the 2023 Ryder Cup. 

Speaking to Barstool Sports' Dan Rapaport this week, Bradley - who also missed out on a wildcard pick in 2023 - very much opened the door for more LIV Golf players on his 2025 US Ryder Cup team. 

It will be down to them to prove it, though. 

Scroll below to watch snippets from Keegan Bradley's interview with Dan Rapaport...

"I just think if you do six and six, which is the way it's done now, if you finished seventh or eighth on the list, you should be on the team," said Bradley.

"But then I guess I came to the realisation that if I'm in charge of choosing the team, if I think seventh or eighth should be on the team, I could just do that, so there's no real point in changing it.

"I'm under the firm belief that I want the best players on the team. Next year at this time, who knows what we are looking at here in terms of LIV, PGA Tour... I'm in no private conversations, I know nothing."

He added: "I think I owe it to the team to have the best players on the team. That could mean LIV players, it could mean it doesn't. It's just going to depend on who is ready to go.

"I know that there are guys on LIV who are motivated to win the Ryder Cup. I don't know how that's going to shake out, I just want the best 12 players."

Koepka and DeChambeau will certainly be the two lead names from LIV Golf that Bradley will be keeping eyes on over the next 12 months.

Dustin Johnson will no doubt also be considered, although the former World No.1 and two-time major champion has been off the boil of late.

Talor Gooch is another contender you would expect. 

Luke Donald confirmed a big change on his 2025 European Ryder Cup team earlier this week. 

There will be just one set list for six players to earn automatic spots on his side, rather than two separate lists for World Points and European Points like past years. 

Donald will then have six captain's picks like before. 

The decision to call change to the European Ryder Cup qualification process will very much open the door for LIV Golf stars Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton, who of course teamed up admirably at Marco Simone last year. 

Last year's Ryder Cup took place several months before both Rahm and eventually Hatton joined the breakaway Saudi golf league. 

The changes to European Ryder Cup qualification for 2025 have been slammed by LIV Golf's Richard Bland though, who spoke to GolfMagic's Ben Smith ahead of International Series England at Foxhills this week. 

Bland considers the Ryder Cup is just another PGA Tour event now, similarly to the Presidents Cup, in that it will make life very hard for regular DP World Tour players to play their way into the team.