{"id":87801,"date":"2025-09-27T00:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/87801\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T00:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T00:46:10","slug":"rory-mcilroy-appears-to-make-offensive-gesture-towards-the-crowd-at-ryder-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/87801\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy appears to make offensive gesture towards the crowd at Ryder Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy appeared to make an offensive gesture towards the crowd on the opening day of the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Irishman was seen raising a finger on his left hand as he walked off the 11th green during his afternoon fourballs match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He and his partner Shane Lowry had just gone two up against Sam Burns and Patrick Cantlay when he appeared to respond to something in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2618\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamEurope?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TeamEurope<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OurTimeOurPlace?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#OurTimeOurPlace<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gJQzYdHBAA\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/gJQzYdHBAA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KdOajf8gUy\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KdOajf8gUy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryder Cup Europe (@RyderCupEurope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyderCupEurope\/status\/1971674109034799489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">It is currently not known what provoked the gesture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Earlier European Robert MacIntyre had a spat with an American member of the crowd following a comment made about his weight on the 17th tee.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\ude24\ud83d\udd95<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WATCH<\/a> \u2014 It appears Rory McIlroy has flipped the bird to the crowd at Bethpage \ud83e\udee8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RyderCup2025?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#RyderCup2025<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrackingRory?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TrackingRory<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4Wto1ffjCe\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4Wto1ffjCe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NUCLRGOLF\/status\/1971670789960462354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">Much had been made of the Bethpage Black crowd in the build-up to the tournament and how they were expected to make it a hostile \u201cbear pit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2.81762972.jpg\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy (right) and Tommy Fleetwood of Team Europe bump fists during the morning foursomes\" data-title=\"Ryder Cup \u2013 Day One \u2013 Bethpage Black Course\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Mike Egerton\" data-usage-terms=\"Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\"  \/>McIlroy (right) continued his winning record with Tommy Fleetwood in the morning foursomes (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But McIlroy had helped keep them largely quiet as he enjoyed an excellent opening morning of the 45th Ryder Cup as Europe were in a strong position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He continued his winning record with Tommy Fleetwood in the morning foursomes, celebrating a commanding 5&amp;4 victory over Collin Morikawa and Harris English, which helped give Europe a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Partnering his friend Lowry, the Irish pair were in a strong position at 2 up after 11 but were pegged back to all square heading into the final few holes.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy appeared to make an offensive gesture towards the crowd on the opening day of the Ryder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,57658,5,8506,13261,39059,2104,57657,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-87801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-mcilroy","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-place-international","23":"tag-place-northern-ireland","24":"tag-place-scotland","25":"tag-place-uk","26":"tag-ryder","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}