Brandt Snedeker is excited to be experiencing the sights and sounds of the Czech Republic ahead of making his debut at the D+D REAL Czech Masters.
The American has enjoyed a hugely successful career on the PGA TOUR, winning nine times, and has achieved nine top tens in Major Championships.
He also has a DP World Tour win at the 2016 Fiji International but this is just his second appearance in continental Europe after the 2012 Volvo World Match Play.
It has been an eventful few weeks for the 43-year-old, who was recently awarded the Payne Stewart Award and appointed a Vice Captain for the 2025 United States Ryder Cup team, and he was delighted to be enjoying some down time alongside his golf at PGA National OAKS Prague.
“I’m pretty excited," he said. "It’s my first time ever to Prague and the Czech Republic, my wife came over with me so we’re enjoying the city.
"It’s my first time on the golf course today, it looks great, so I’m looking forward to this week and some good golf.
“I haven’t had a great year on TOUR this year and I feel like I’ve been playing better and just need more opportunities to play more, so this popped on my radar about a month ago and thought it was a great opportunity to play some golf and travel a little bit.
"I love this game, love travelling around, seeing different places, so this is a great opportunity to play a little golf and have a little fun in the meantime.
"The city is beautiful. We had an opportunity yesterday to walk around and see the historical buildings and see how pretty the culture is, so we enjoyed that part of it.
"We don’t get a lot of that in the States so being able to see those old buildings and cool culture, it’s been fun so far and I’m looking forward to the rest of the week."
Snedeker will bring plenty of experience to Keegan Bradley's backroom at Bethpage Black next year, having experienced an agonising defeat at the Miracle at Medinah and being part of the team that won the trophy back for the first time in eight years at Hazeltine.
He admits his 38-year-old friend was a little surprised to be handed the top job but has backed Bradley's troops to fight back from their defeat in Rome in front of raucous New York crowds.
"Keegan is one of my good buddies, he’s going to be a great captain," he said. "He’ll leave no stone unturned in trying to win back the cup and I’m happy to help him with the team and get these guys ready to play.
“Hopefully I bring some passion, some pride, there’s nothing better than being on one of those teams. My biggest role that week is to be everybody’s do-boy. Whatever the guys need or the girls need on the team, I’m there for that.
"I understand I’m the lowest guy on the totem pole, that’s my job, make people laugh, have fun, enjoy the week and really take as much pressure off the guys as possible, which is really hard.
"The hardest thing about the Ryder Cup is you feel the weight of the world on your shoulders and trying to have guys in the team room who can alleviate a bit of that is really important.
“It will be a very good home course advantage, I have to say. The fans there are absolutely insane. I’ve played a couple of Majors there and there’s nothing like New York fans, they’re the best. Looking forward to having them on our side and hopefully trying to bring back the cup.”
