By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM

EDISON, N.J. – Keegan Bradley has had nine days to adjust to winning the PGA Championship. Seems like there’s been something new and exciting happening each one of them, too.

The little boy who wanted Bradley to sign his forehead on Tuesday? Well, that was just plan weird. But the text from his "absolute childhood hero," New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, was unforgettable.

"I almost hesitate to even say it, because it means so much to me," Bradley said. "I almost thought about just keeping it to myself because that’s how much Tom Brady is to me and my career and everything. To get a text from him reaching out to me was a highlight of my career."

The phone call from Greg Norman was pretty amazing, too. "I swear to God, like something happens every day that I can’t believe that’s going around," Bradley said. "It’s just pretty remarkable."

Bradley, who grew up in Vermont and played collegiately at St. Johns, now lives in Jupiter, Fla. But he took a cue from one of his beloved Boston sports teams when he brought the Wanamaker Trophy back home after his win at the Atlanta Athletic Club — and took it on a tour.

"I really wanted to have the people that may not have access to the trophy to, touch it, to hold it, to grab it," Bradley said. "The defenseman for the Bruins after they won, he grabbed the Stanley Cup, walked out of his house in Boston and walked around the streets with it and just had people touch it, and I thought that was the coolest thing.
   
"So I wanted people to just be able to touch it, hold it, and looked at their faces like they are looking at a ghost or something. It was really fun."

All good things must come to an end, though. During a media blitz in Atlanta the Monday after he won the PGA Bradley said that he was "crazy" about the game and figured he would be back on the golf course by Wednesday. He was almost right – after all the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup were on the horizon.

"Thursday, when I woke up on Thursday, I was like, I’ve got to get going again and get started and start thinking about this week, because the FedExCup Playoffs are an important part of our season," Bradley said. "I know coming back home, I’ve got two weeks that are almost home games, it’s really cool to be back here and like I said to be able to go see St. John’s. This is a very important event for all of us, especially me." 

Bradley flew to New Jersey on Sunday night and spent Monday with the St. John’s golf team. They played at Glen Oaks on Long Island and he spent the night with some of the guys on the team at their "Golf House" in Queens. He did "pull seniority" and kick one of the guys out of his bed.

"It is cool to go back and hang out with those guys –we are basically the same age to a lot of them and it’s super cool, because like I said, it wasn’t that long ago when I was sitting in a house in Queens with 85 dollars in my bank account and struggling around for doing exactly what they are doing,’ Bradley said. "It’s funny to go back and play with the guys — there were three groups and I got to kind of stick around and every group I had was so much fun. 

"It’s more fun for me than it is for them. They probably all know that."