McIlroy is set for a bumper showdown with world number one Scottie Scheffler<\/a>.<\/p>\nA statement read: \u201cHeather has extended an apology to Rory Mcllroy and Ryder Cup Europe and has stepped down from hosting the first tee of the Ryder Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In the Saturday afternoon fourballs, McIlroy was again partnered with Shane Lowry, and the pair were targeted by an oiled-up New York crowd from the get-go.<\/p>\n
In the Co Down man\u2019s case, it\u2019s been the same story since the first morning as US fans made frequent mentions of his marriage and last year’s US Open \u201cchoke\u201d against DeChambeau, while Lowry was constantly insulted over his weight with frequent references to \u201ccabbage\u201d, \u201cpotatoes\u201d, and \u201cpigs\u201d.<\/p>\n
The heckling got so bad the Offaly man unleashed a powerful \u201cF**k you\u201d and pointed to the heckler when he made a 20-footer for eagle at the fourth to put Europe ahead.<\/p>\n
It was a non-stop distraction for McIlroy and after being forced to step off a putt on the sixth, he told the referee: \u201cI won\u2019t putt until they shut up.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Rory McIlroy was subjected to heckling throughout the second day at the Ryder Cup (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n
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At the 10th, a fan screamed as McIlroy was standing over his tee shot and Lowry had to be held back from wading into the crowd by caddie Darren Reynolds before pointing out the perpetrator to law enforcement.<\/p>\n
After the pair won their match to help Europe into a seemingly unassailable 11.5 to 4.5 lead ahead of the Sunday singles, McIlroy was asked about what they had to listen to from the crowd.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cYou know, it\u2019s not for me to say. People can be their own judge of whether they took it too far or not. I\u2019m just proud of us for being able to win today with what we had to go through.\u201d<\/p>\n
It followed the morning foursomes, during which McIlroy told the US crowd to \u201cshut the f**k up\u201d.<\/p>\n
While lining up his approach shot to the 16th green, fans behind heckled the Grand Slam winner with one heard to shout “Freedom\u201d as McIlroy stood over his ball.<\/p>\n
The Holywood star stood back and hit back at the fans, saying: \u201cGuys, shut the f*** up!\u201d<\/p>\n
Afterwards, McIlroy said: \u201cI don\u2019t mind them having a go at us, that\u2019s to be expected. But when I\u2019m trying to hit my shot, that\u2019s a tough thing, give us some respect and let us hit shots.\u201d<\/p>\n
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At the end of Saturday\u2019s play, the US crowd had been well and truly silenced, with the smaller cohort of travelling European fans serenading their players in an otherwise deserted 18th grandstand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On videos posted on social media, Heather McMahan could be heard joining chants of \u201cf**k you Rory\u201d over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,59074,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,5952,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-90709","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-gareth-hanna","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-rory-mcilroy","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90709","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=90709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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