CHARLOTTE (AFP) — United States captain Keegan Bradley might bring together PGA Tour and LIV Golf talent for September’s Ryder Cup showdown against Europe, even as the competing groups can’t complete a deal themselves.

Reigning US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau and five-time major winner Brooks Koepka of LIV Golf were among those invited to a gathering last week of potential US Ryder Cup players, Bradley said Tuesday at the PGA Championship.

Nearly two years after a framework agreement for LIV’s backers, the Saudi Public Investment Fund, to invest in the PGA Tour, no deal has been made and stars from rival tours only meet in majors such as this week’s event at Quail Hollow.

Bradley, however, sees room for LIV talent on the US Ryder Cup team. Koepka has played four times and was the only LIV player on the 2023 US squad that lost to Europe in Italy as a captain’s pick.

DeChambeau has played twice, most recently in 2021, a year after winning his first major at the US Open.

“We invited Brooks and Bryson and they were in there on points and they played on previous teams. It was great to have them there,” Bradley said.

“This Ryder Cup and what comes with this, no one cares about what’s going on in this side PGA Tour-LIV. We’re trying to put the best team together.”

“It could mean there’s one LIV guy, two LIV guys, it doesn’t matter. We’ll see how this year shakes out. It was really great to have them together with all the guys. It has been a while since we’ve been able to do that.”

Bradley won’t see LIV events as much being a PGA player, so watching the 15 LIV players in this week’s field of 156 is important.

“These guys are playing in all four of the majors, so we’ll have that. A lot of them are up in these leaderboards every major,” Bradley said.

“We’ll see how the year shapes out. The data is a little less at LIV. We don’t have quite the same stats that we have out here, but we have some. We know winning and contending on any tour at any level is difficult. I don’t care where you play.”

“Winning on the LIV is difficult. You can see guys — winning a LIV event is a big deal.”

Winning the biennial team matches is huge as well as this year’s contest at Bethpage Black near New York looms.