Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley gave his long-time caddie Scott Vail a scare with a text following last year’s Travelers Championship.

Vail feared he was being fired when receiving a morning text from his boss following the end of the Travelers Championship, which was won by Scottie Scheffler. He defeated Tom Kim in a playoff to seal another win during his dominant season.

But Bradley, who finished up at River Highlands at eight-under and is in a competitive field featuring Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, sent a message to caddie — and Vail thought his gig was over. It turned out to be good news, thankfully for Vail.

The message was actually Bradley informing his right-hand man that he was the new captain of the United States Ryder Cup team. Vail eventually found out the news after Bradley gave him a call.

It was the message before the call that scared Vail though. Bradley simply wrote ‘call me,’ and Vail assumed their partnership was over.

“The Monday morning [after the Travelers Championship], I got up at 7 a.m. and I had a text already from him saying, ‘You know we text back and forth a lot, but we’ve been on the road for like four weeks’,” Vail told Golf's Sub Par Podcast. “It was weird to have it, you know, straight away the next morning.