{"id":465103,"date":"2025-10-01T06:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/465103\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T06:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:45:22","slug":"rory-mcilroys-conversation-about-ryder-cup-controversy-speaks-volumes-golf-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/465103\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy&#8217;s conversation about Ryder Cup controversy speaks volumes | Golf | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas, considered a friend of McIlroy, did his part to amp up the home supporters as they attempted to overturn a huge Sunday deficit.<\/p>\n<p>He has since insisted that no person\u2019s safety was in danger, but did admit that he \u201cfelt for\u201d McIlroy and Shane Lowry as they walked the course to hordes of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I don&#8217;t think anyone&#8217;s safety was necessarily in danger,\u201d Thomas told the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/article-15144081\/Rory-McIlroy-Ryder-Cup-abuse-Erica-Stoll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>. \u201cWords hurt, too. There was definitely some nasty things said, but I don&#8217;t think anybody was necessarily fearing for their life.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">\u201cThere were some things said, and yeah, Cam (Young) and I said it to Shane and Rory yesterday that we felt for them. It was unfortunate. Cam and I just wished that we gave them something to cheer for instead of people to cheer against.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was kind of the main consensus of the last two days, that we weren&#8217;t giving them enough to cheer for, and they were just trying to help us win. I guess that&#8217;s the New York fans for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy has <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Rory McIlroy sends emotional message to wife after she broke down in tears\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/2114555\/Rory-McIlroy-wife-Erica-Stoll-Ryder-Cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">come out praising his wife Erica<\/a>, who did not mention to the rest of the team that she had a can thrown at her, but lamented such actions taking place at a tournament with the prestige of the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Family] should be off limits, but obviously it wasn\u2019t this week,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cErica is fine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is a very strong woman and she handled everything this week with class and poise and dignity like she always has. I love her and we\u2019re going to have a good time celebrating tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Follow Team Europe star Justin Rose added: \u201cI actually had no idea that Erica had a beer thrown at her yesterday, so fair play to Erica. She didn\u2019t bring that to the team room. We didn\u2019t make that a big deal. That is news to me which that says a lot about the strength of Erica and everybody on this team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas, considered a friend of McIlroy, did his part to amp up the home supporters as they attempted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[14933,2826,4366,28243,4287,51006,4321,155331,155330,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-465103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-erica-stoll","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-golf-news","11":"tag-justin-thomas","12":"tag-rory-mcilroy","13":"tag-rory-mcilroy-wife","14":"tag-ryder-cup","15":"tag-ryder-cup-abuse","16":"tag-ryder-cup-crowd","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115297565046153161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}