Keegan Bradley’s 7th PGA Tour win was different. His dad was with him in Denver to see it.

CASTLE ROCK — Mark Bradley gave up on scoreboard-watching and ventured out to play his own round of golf. There was no use sitting indoors and refreshing the leaderboard online once his son had finished his final round across the country. In Memphis, Keegan Bradley needed to finish the day 50th or higher in the FedExCup points standings just to qualify for the next round the following week in Denver.

He was teetering. In Wyoming, Mark checked his phone from the golf course and saw his son was No. 51.

Keegan needed help. He got it from his competitors. The next time Mark checked, his son was back in 50th.

“Gee whiz,” he recalls telling his friend, Bernie Wirth. “So we go the whole day — now we’re just checking and checking it. And it held.

Once we realized Keegan made it, I looked at Bernie and said, ‘I’m going.'” After years of bad luck, the Bradleys finally got the timing right in Denver. at the BMW Championship on Sunday was more sentimental than his six previous wins on the PGA Tour.

This was the first time his dad had been with him to see it in person. “I was on the bag when he won the Wyoming State Amateur,” Mark told The Denver Post on the 18th green at Castle Pines Golf Club, while Keegan cradled the trophy for photos nearby. “And then I was there for — I don’t know.

That’s it.” Keegan is from Woodstock, Vermont, but his dad became the club professional at Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis Club in 2005. Summers during college started with a thr.