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Rory McIlroy was critical of the US crowds at Bethpage after a series of unsavoury incidents at the Ryder Cup.
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But question is, how do you pick and choose when to interact? Yesterday on 16:00 in the afternoon, I heard some guy who was like, “Roy, you’re not that good.” And you said, “I’m really effing good.” So, I am. I know you are really good. I know. But when do you pick and choose when to interact with the fans? Obviously, there’s playful. Um, honestly, I I’d say it’s just on impulse. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. Um, I’m quite an impulsive character, if you haven’t noticed. Um, and uh, sometimes I’ll I’ll engage and sometimes I’ll catch myself and and refrain, but I don’t I don’t really choose when and and it’s just it’s sort of sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. Would you be okay with another RER Cup in this area? If the result was the same, absolutely. How sustainable for the game of golf is the level of abuse that you and others I know but received um received this weekend? I mean, is it something that you just have to accept or is it something that’s taking the game in a dangerous direction? No, I I like I don’t think we should ever accept that in golf. Um, I think golf should be held to a higher standard than than what was, you know, than what was seen out there this week. Um, golf has the ability to unite people. Golf teaches you very good life lessons. It teaches you etiquette. It teaches you how to play by the rules. It teaches you how to respect people. Um, and you know, sometimes this week we didn’t see that. So, uh, no, it this should not be what is acceptable in the RDER Cup. Um, but you know, we will be making sure to say to our fans in Ireland in 2027 that, you know, what happened here this week is is not acceptable. And it’s, you know, I for me it’s, you know, come and support your home team. You know, come and support your team. You know, I think if I was an American, I would be annoyed that people I didn’t hear a lot of shouts for Scotty today, but I heard a lot of shouts against me. And it’s like, support your players, you know, that’s the that’s the thing. So, um, look, it was a rough week for all of us. Um, but at the same time, you know, we we shut them up by our performance and how we played and we we tried to, you know, I I tripped back a few times because it got to me a few times, but we we tried to handle everything that came our way um with class and poise. And for the most part, I felt like we did that. Mike 12, you have a question. or I was going to ask a similar question to Ollie really, but um when you’ve got police dogs and the police coming in, were you aware when that was happening? And have you ever seen anything quite like that on a golf course before when you’ve been playing? Wish they had let the dogs off the leashes. Um I want police off. I uh No, honestly like the the amount like the police out there and the the the amount the security presence was was insane. Um, and it’s not a look, nothing was going to happen. Nothing was going to happen where I I you know, there wasn’t really going to be any sort of physical altercation or anything like that apart from maybe Tommy and Rosie up to the 16th yesterday. But, um, look, it was just it was, you know, there was a lot of language that was unacceptable and abusive behavior and um, but look, that’s and look, that’s it’s a very it’s a minority of the crowd. It’s not the majority. the majority of people here are true golf fans and are respectful and um let both teams have the the same chance to to hit the shots and um and play a fair contest. But, you know, there was, you know, there was a a small subset of people that um behaved a little bit differently than that. Up to 19. Uh Rory, it’s uh it’s one thing when the abuse is directed at you guys as players. That’s bad enough. Um, but it seemed to spill over to sort of friends and family, the entouragees of you guys. Obviously, there was a lot of people inside the ropes this week, but videos come out yesterday of of a beer being thrown at your wife. Firstly, is she okay? She seemed upset obviously after that. That’s obviously something no one wants to go through. What was your view on that situation? And just, you know, the direction of of this event as a whole with that in mind that families don’t feel comfortable inside the ropes. I mean, it’s uh it it it should be off limits, but it but obviously it wasn’t this week. But um Eric is fine. She is a very very strong woman. And um you know, she she handled everything this week with class and poise and dignity like she always has. and um I love her and um we’re going to have a good time celebrating
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Well done EU. There's a-holes in every country, We are quite free here and we don't always wear it well. No excuses but there is a cost to freedom. Nice win away!
It's one of the few sporting events where the USA actually competes with the world. The 4 most popular sports there are only contested in North America with the overwhelming majority of the teams USA franchises so tribalism doesn't normally come into it.
For it to leak into Golf and have no one in the crowd attempt to silence them or point them out to stewards shows there's a lot of fear currently in America of standing up to people.
I wonder why?
Drunk rich yanks being boorish
The folks that need to listen to Rory very closely are the PGA of America, course hosting PGA event, and the American people who attend events like the Ryder Cup. The European team was the only "Class Act" at the 2025 Ryder Cup! I stopped attending PGA events ten years ago because the drunk and disorderly people ruining the event for everyone else!
America is a country full of lunatics, lunatic president, lunatic school shooters, lunatic assassins, even lunatic golf 'fans'.
I hope the Olympic committee is watching this and taking action removing the games
GET IN THE HOLE
There is a terrible title. Rory did not criticize the crowd. Clickbait and only trying to stir up more crap.
We are now a bros culture at sporting events with a generation who grew up on tik tok and social media where they feel that anything can be said to anybody and then you add in beer muscles and you get embarrassing and terrible behavior. New York fans are historically awful
Are we pretending European's don't behave the same in our smugness this morning
Were they MAGA???
I have marshalled at 3 PGA events.. We found that there is a whole group of people that turn out who are not golf fans—they are there to party in a hospitality tent often for free booze and food and were often given free tickets because of "who they know". The behaviour on Sunday crossed way over the line and is non-sensical given that on any given week Rory and other Europeans are cheered for the great golfers they are. Another shameful performance by Americans on the world stage. Was glad to see Justin Thomas stand up for the Europeans and for golf whether you are winning or losing. We often say you can judge a persons character by the way they play golf and it is also true you can tell something about a person on the way they act when their team is losing.
American commenting: I agree with you guys. That was a terrible decision by the fans. I caught myself rooting for Euro just because of the embarrassment of the crowds. I hope Yall know that is 1% of people here, 99% of us are class and would never act like this. Great win!
You only have to watch, Gangs Of New York, to realise where this behaviour stems from, animalistic behaviour, never gone away. Such a shame !!
The hate in this country is at an all time high. I wonder why, Hmm
America is a disgrace in every aspect on the world stage these days, unfortunately america is showing its true colours!🇨🇦💪
Bring in some Glasgow Rangers and Millwall fans for the return match to avail the Americans in some ‘hospitality’
The Olympics and the World Cup should be moved out of the US. It's becoming a horror zone of MAGA ignorance and fascism.
Hundreds of years being a gentlemans game….washed away by America….embarrassing, shameful, disgusting
Happy Gilmore should have been on the USA team this year
All thanks to the orange buffoon in the White House.
RORY CANT MAKE A PUT BUT HE CAN CHEAT ON HIS WIFE🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gold is lovely to watch when there are no fans… they are serious pain.
Poor losers in the US as often is the case.
Rory has a perfect response.
Fat fans idiot fans sums up the Americans
She got hit with a drink. Ngl Brodie that was deserved maybe it will knock some sense into her abt gettin back with him after he cheated on her with a reporter. 😂😂😂😂
Don’t sell alcohol and there won’t be a problem
Now get him a diet Pepsi.
Donald managed to not learn anything from golf. Players and crowd mirrors its orange leader.
Well done EU. We deserved the thrashing
I used to go the the Canadian open for years and years and the crowd always cheered for every player. What the hell is this? Tacky is the best I could say about the crowd's behaviour here.
Support good play!! You are there to cheer on excellence from all of the players!!
Golf’s evolving that sport not gonna stay the same for 2000 years no matter how much you want it to and happens to be u can talk sh** now all you need to crying acting like it’s such a big deal think abt it this way it’s evolving in a way. 😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe stop promoting and over-serving alcohol at golf tournaments (Waste Management Open as an example) and/or have more security to quickly identify and clear out the drunk and the classless who are misbehaving. People spend a lot of money to be there… so the fans that are not misbehaving should not tolerate those that are. Shame them into behaving or leaving… or calls security on them. They need to be taught a lesson.
Welcome to Trump's America.
Disgraceful US fans, they should have been removed.
Americans have become xenophobic thanks to their presidents who blames for their problems the world,meanwhile the country is falling apart,don’t travel to the Usa,its dangerous.
MAGA "sportmanship", embarrasing
Must be annoying to the other players that all anybody ever wants to talk to is Rory
What's the point of the other 11 sitting there?
Congrats Rory on being awarded America's highest honor of Top Douche.
I know you've won multiple times but this one must be the sweetest.
Man, if someone threw a beer on my wife, they'd get my 5 iron to the ribs. This kind of behavior is unacceptable.
Surprised ICE didn't try and arrest the EU players… Look at Trumps class and you should not expect the crowd to be any better.
Welcome to Trump's America.
Was alcohol on sale over the 3 days, if so then that's the first thing that needs banned, i guarantee you that most of these idiots were 💩faced the whole 3 days.