{"id":265361,"date":"2025-09-30T02:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265361\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:19:10","slug":"rory-mcilroy-dubs-ryder-cup-fans-antics-not-acceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265361\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy dubs Ryder Cup fans’ antics ‘not acceptable’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rory McIlroy<\/a> didn\u2019t back down.<\/p>\n

The Irish golf star had stood up for himself amid verbal abuse and other inappropriate behavior from some American fans during the Ryder Cup<\/a> this weekend at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y.<\/p>\n

After helping Team Europe fend off a massive U.S. rally for a 15-13 victory Sunday, McIlroy had plenty more to say about what he witnessed from fans during the three-day event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we should ever accept that in golf,\u201d McIlroy said<\/a> during his team\u2019s post-tournament press conference. \u201cI think golf should be held to a higher standard than than what was was seen out there this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cGolf has the ability to unite people. Golf teaches you very good life lessons. It teaches you etiquette. It teaches you how to play by the rules. It teaches you how to respect people. And, you know, sometimes this week we didn\u2019t see that.\u201d<\/p>\n

McIlroy went 3-1-1 during the event while enduring boisterous jeers and insults from members of the crowd who were doing their best to disrupt him while he lined up to swing or putt. At one point Saturday a cup of beer appeared to sail out of the crowd and hit the brim of a hat worn by McIlroy\u2019s wife, Erica Stoll<\/a>, who was walking next to her husband.<\/p>\n

The reigning Masters champion didn\u2019t take such treatment quietly, clapping back at times with profanity or gestures of his own. <\/p>\n

At one point during foursome play Saturday morning, McIlroy told some boisterous Americans to \u201cshut the f\u2014 up.\u201d He then proceeded to send his shot to within three feet of the hole, setting up Tommy Fleetwood<\/a>\u2018s putt to clinch the European pair\u2019s win.<\/p>\n

Asked Sunday how satisfying that particular set of events was, McIlroy replied, \u201cVery f\u2014 satisfying.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, U.S. golf legend Tom Watson congratulated the European team on their win in a post on X<\/a> (formerly Twitter). The four-time Ryder Cup player and two-time captain also wrote: \u201cMore importantly, I\u2019d like to apologize for the rude and mean-spirited behavior from our American crowd at Bethpage. As a former player, Captain and as an American, I am ashamed of what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

In general, McIlroy said, \u201cwe shut them up by our performance and how we played. You know, I chirped back a few times because it got to me a few times. [But] we tried to handle everything that came our way with class and poise and for the most part I felt like we did that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The amount of security and police present at the tournament was increased as the weekend went on, a step McIlroy didn\u2019t think was necessary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police out there and the amount of the security presence was insane,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like \u2014 nothing was going to happen. There wasn\u2019t really going to be any sort of physical altercation or anything like that. … There was a lot of language that was unacceptable and abusive behavior, but look, it\u2019s a minority of the crowd. It\u2019s not the majority. The majority of people here are true golf fans and are respectful and [hope] that both teams have the same chance to hit the shots and play a fair contest.\u201d<\/p>\n

McIlroy added that he hopes those respectful fans are the ones who show up at the next Ryder Cup, which will be held in his homeland.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be making sure to say to our fans in Ireland in 2027 that what happened here this week is not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, McIlroy and his European teammates did appear to take part in a little playful taunting of their own after their win Sunday. President Trump<\/a> posted a video on Truth Social<\/a> that showed the group hoisting their trophy and singing, \u201cAre you watching, Donald Trump?\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, who attended the Ryder Cup on Friday, wrote in response: \u201cYes, I\u2019m watching. Congratulations!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy didn\u2019t back down. The Irish golf star had stood up for himself amid verbal abuse and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[138501,4537,1430,3546,138502,1478,8656,4995,62,57666,138500,6620,67,132,68,138503,2452,9953,2030],"class_list":{"0":"post-265361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-american-fan","9":"tag-crowd","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-people","12":"tag-point-saturday","13":"tag-rory-mcilroy","14":"tag-ryder-cup","15":"tag-security","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-team-europe","18":"tag-three-day-event","19":"tag-time","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-victory-sunday","24":"tag-week","25":"tag-weekend","26":"tag-win"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115290856810463208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265361","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=265361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}