{"id":97284,"date":"2025-10-01T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/97284\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:50:10","slug":"footage-shows-vile-abuse-directed-at-shane-lowry-during-ryder-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/97284\/","title":{"rendered":"Footage Shows Vile Abuse Directed At Shane Lowry During Ryder Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Lowry will come away from this year&#8217;s Ryder Cup with some amazing memories, but he was also sure to be taken aback by some of the happenings at Bethpage over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It was expected that the European players would be met with a hostile reception at the New York venue. In saying that, few could have predicted just how far some of the spectators would go.<\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy was the main focus of their abuse, although it was also dished out to other members of the Europe team. Having partnered with McIlroy on both Friday and Saturday, Lowry was also subjected to quite a bit of vile abuse himself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/golf\/smylie-kaufman-justin-rose-ryder-cup-641093\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Analyst Thinks European Ryder Cup Hero &#8220;Crossed Line&#8221; With Final Round Antics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/golf\/shane-lowry-ryder-cup-fan-abuse-641085\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Lowry Identifies One Surprising Aspect Of Abuse From Ryder Cup Fans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New Footage Shows Vile Abuse Directed At Shane Lowry At Ryder Cup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n        Recommended\n    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a :href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/golf\/article.url\" :title=\"article.title\" :aria-label=\"article.title\" class=\"not-prose col-span-2 md:col-span-1 ga-event\" data-category=\"Recommended Article Tracker\" data-action=\"click\" :data-label=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/golf\/article.url\" :data-value=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/golf\/article.url\"><\/p>\n<p>                                            <img class=\"aspect-video\" width=\"130\" height=\"73\" :src=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/golf\/article.image\" :alt=\"'Image for: ' + article.title\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shane Lowry spoke about the abuse he suffered over the course of the weekend, having been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/golf\/shane-lowry-ryder-cup-fan-abuse-641085\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taken aback from the range of fans that had taken part<\/a> at Bethpage.<\/p>\n<p>Some footage has been doing the rounds that sums up the sort of vile comments being made towards the Offaly man during this year&#8217;s Ryder Cup. It makes for very grim viewing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some of the abuse Shane Lowry had to put up with in Saturday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hEk952o25I\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/hEk952o25I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Balls.ie (@ballsdotie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ballsdotie\/status\/1973313462379094514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As he did for most of the weekend, Shane Lowry would provide the perfect response to those comments.<\/p>\n<p>These sorts of incidents were a consistent theme over the course of the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@gryffalo_\/video\/7555548860278394134\" data-video-id=\"7555548860278394134\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\"><p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@gryffalo_\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@gryffalo_?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@gryffalo_<\/a> One of the best days ever tbh<a title=\"rydercup2025\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/rydercup2025?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#rydercup2025<\/a> <a title=\"shanelowry\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/shanelowry?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#shanelowry<\/a><a title=\"\ud83d\udd95\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/%F0%9F%96%95?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#\ud83d\udd95<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - EpicGamingMusic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7147031288266935086?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u266c original sound &#8211; EpicGamingMusic<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is only a small glimpse into what the European players were subjected to at this year&#8217;s Ryder Cup. Considering the etiquette that is expected at golf tournaments, this is a step way beyond what is usually acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>You certainly would not expect to see similar scenes at the 2027 edition in Adare Manor, with European crowds far more respectful of visiting players. While some gentle ribbing is part and parcel of the Ryder Cup, clips such as the one above show that the American galleries went too far on this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the Europeans responded by claiming a first away victory in this event since 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/golf\/paul-azinger-rory-mcilroy-ryder-cup-behaviour-641196\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA Ryder Cup Legend Had Bizarre Issue With Rory McIlroy Behaviour At Bethpage<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry will come away from this year&#8217;s Ryder Cup with some amazing memories, but he was also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,5948,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-97284","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-news","21":"tag-ryder-cup","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97284","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=97284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}