Team Europe<\/a> vice captain Dodo Molinari has clarified whether there was ever a consideration of halting play at the Ryder Cup<\/a> due to the vile abuse directed at his players from American fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n Volatile fan behaviour was front and centre at Bethpage Black<\/a> over the course of three days as Europe\u2019s golfers were pelted with unsavoury heackles from the galleries. Rory McIlroy<\/a>\u2019s wife Erica had a beer thrown at her<\/a> in a widely criticised action, while PGA of America chief executive Derek Sprague said he would apologise to McIlroy<\/a> and the rest of the European team.<\/p>\n Europe nevertheless overcame the hostile environment to seal a first away Ryder Cup since 2012, achieving the historic feat after surviving a final-day USA comeback to win 15-13<\/a>.<\/p>\n There were claims that Europe considered stopping play amid the abuse they were receiving, but Molinari has emphatically quashed such reports.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was never discussed, that was never talked about, that\u2019s not true at all,\u201d Molinari told Fried Egg Golf<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cThe only thing we said is that we were trying our best not to irritate the crowd even more, to be humble and try not to react to them, which I think we did a great job at for a day and a half. <\/p>\n \u201cThen when you\u2019re exposed to that for 12 hours a day, eventually it gets to you and obviously some players reacted, but I think they\u2019re just normal human beings. It would have been impossible for anyone not to react for three straight days.\u201d<\/p>\n Tensions visibly spilled over on the Saturday, with McIlroy and Shane Lowry both firing expletive responses<\/a> towards rowdy American fans.<\/p>\n USA golfer Collin Morikawa<\/a> admitted the behaviour of American fans \u201ccrossed the line\u201d<\/a> after the Ryder Cup\u2019s conclusion but did not believe he was partly to blame for inflaming the atmosphere<\/a>, having called for \u201cabsolute chaos\u201d at Bethpage two days before the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-488467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115350193567798029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488467","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=488467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Team](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SEI268158865.jpeg\")
Team Europe never considered halting play on their way to victory, says Dodo Molinari (Getty)<\/p>\n