{"id":261557,"date":"2025-09-28T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261557\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:13:09","slug":"ryder-cup-2025-first-tee-announcer-apologizes-and-quits-after-leading-crass-chant-directed-at-rory-mcilroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261557\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup 2025: First-tee announcer apologizes and quits after leading crass chant directed at Rory McIlroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FARMINGDALE, N.Y. \u2014 The Ryder Cup is already over for one of the participants ahead of the final day. It&#8217;s just not a player.<\/p>\n<p>A first-tee announcer and emcee has quit and apologized after leading a crass crowd chant on Saturday directed at Rory McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/ryder-cup-2025-rory-mcilroy-saturday-fans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RELATED: What it was like following Rory McIlroy on Saturday at Bethpage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">RELATED: What it was like following Rory McIlroy on Saturday at Bethpage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actress and comedian Heather McMahan stepped down from her role on Saturday night. The PGA of America released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Heather has extended an apology to Rory McIlroy and Ryder Cup Europe and has stepped down from hosting the first tee of the Ryder Cup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s video in which you can hear someone join a &#8220;Fu&#8211; you, Rory!&#8221; chant with a microphone by the first tee.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/ryder-cup-2025-rory-mcilroy-saturday-fans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:dealt with abuse from the fans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">dealt with abuse from the fans<\/a> at Bethpage Black all day on Saturday. He was still able to win both of his matches as Europe took a commanding seven-point lead heading into the Sunday singles session.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><b>MORE GOLF DIGEST @ THE RYDER CUP COVERAGE <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FARMINGDALE, N.Y. \u2014 The Ryder Cup is already over for one of the participants ahead of the final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":261558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[136866,1430,136865,1478,8656,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-261557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-announcer","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-heather-mcmahan","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy","12":"tag-ryder-cup","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115282575637648195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}