{"id":90006,"date":"2025-09-28T02:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/90006\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:50:09","slug":"rory-mcilroy-defies-the-hecklers-to-keep-europes-ryder-cup-bid-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/90006\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy defies the hecklers to keep Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup bid on track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy defied the taunts to keep Europe\u2019s bid to defend the Ryder Cup on track at Bethpage Black on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>World number two McIlroy was heckled throughout the second day by American supporters but held firm as Europe maintained their grip on proceedings in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After winning the morning foursomes session 3-1 to extend their overall advantage over the United States to 8.5-3.5, Europe made a solid start in the fourballs.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2.81780061.jpg\" title=\"Ryder Cup \u2013 Day Two \u2013 Bethpage Black Course\" \/> Justin Thomas called for calm as McIlroy prepared to play his shots (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Midway through the afternoon session, Europe were leading in two matches and level in the others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">McIlroy, who angrily shouted at a fan trying to distract him during his morning foursomes win, was again singled out as he and Shane Lowry took on Justin Thomas and Cameron Young.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Play was twice held up on the front nine as hecklers shouted at McIlroy as he prepared to take a shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police had to step in to call for order and Thomas also tried to calm the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The match was all square after 11 holes.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2.81780466.jpg\" title=\"Ryder Cup \u2013 Day Two \u2013 Bethpage Black Course\" \/> Justin Rose was also in action in the fourballs (David Davies\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood were playing tidy golf and led by two against Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jon Rahm and Sepp Straka were also two up against JJ Spain and Xander Schauffele.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tyrrell Hatton, who came in as a replacement for the injured Viktor Hovland, and Matt Fitzpatrick were level with Patrick Cantlay and Sam Burns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy defied the taunts to keep Europe\u2019s bid to defend the Ryder Cup on track at Bethpage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,8506,39059,2104,57657,5948,7,8],"class_list":["post-90006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-place-international","tag-place-scotland","tag-place-uk","tag-ryder","tag-ryder-cup","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90006","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=90006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}