{"id":268170,"date":"2025-10-01T03:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268170\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:36:11","slug":"heather-mcmahan-breaks-silence-after-f-k-you-rory-mcilroy-chant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268170\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather McMahan breaks silence after &#8216;f\u2013k you, Rory&#8217; McIlroy chant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heather McMahan has broken her silence after she resigned from her role as emcee at this past weekend\u2019s Ryder Cup after she was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/28\/sports\/ryder-cup-emcee-heather-mcmahan-steps-down-after-leading-f-k-you-rory-chants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heard chanting \u201cf\u2013k you, Rory\u201d<\/a> \u2014 directed at Team Europe star Rory McIlroy \u2014 along with the crowd before the start of Saturday\u2019s session.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Irishman faced a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/30\/sports\/rory-mcilroy-demands-ryder-cup-fan-get-booted-over-homophobic-slur-in-new-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barrage of jeers and over-the-line comments<\/a> during the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black on Long Island on Saturday and Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McMahan was serving as emcee at the first hole when she was heard on a now-viral video of the expletive-filled chant before the start of the second day\u2019s matches. In a comment on TikTok, the actress and comedian hit back at the \u201cSalem-witch esque blaming\u201d she took.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37259093\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/092825RyderCup23HK.jpg\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy celebrates on the 15th hole during his singles match against Scottie Scheffler during the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black Golf Course in Farmingdale, N.Y. on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-37259093\"  \/>Rory McIlroy celebrates on the 15th hole during his singles match against Scottie Scheffler on Day 3 of Europe\u2019s win over the United State in the Ryder Cup.  Heather Khalifa for the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a really tough scene,\u201d McMahan wrote in a comment on influencer Pamela Wurst Vetrini\u2019s post defending her. \u201cI did not start the chant but I deeply regret responding back to the crowd. I apologized but I agree it [is a] little Salem-witch esque blaming me for the New York sports scene.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The widely seen clip showed McMahan first attempting to lead a chant of \u201cDe-Cham-Beau\u201d for American golf star Bryson DeChambeau before it devolved into \u201cf\u2013k you, Rory,\u201d which she can clearly be heard joining in on through the mic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The PGA of America announced on Sunday morning that McMahan resigned her role and had \u201cextended an apology to Rory McIlroy and Ryder Cup Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37259094\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/shutterstock_editorial_EmmyArrivals_15482940bc.jpg\" alt=\"Heather McMahan\" class=\"wp-image-37259094\"  \/>Heather McMahan John Salangsang\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Spectators\u2019 treatment of McIlroy and his wife, Erica, became one of the biggest stories of the Ryder Cup, and the golfer hit out at fans after Team Europe won the Ryder Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we should ever accept that in golf,\u201d he said. \u201cI think golf should be held to a higher standard than what was seen out there this week. Golf 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes this week we didn\u2019t see that. So no, this should not be what is acceptable in the Ryder Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heather McMahan has broken her silence after she resigned from her role as emcee at this past weekend\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":268171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1430,1478,8656,62,1486,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-268170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-rory-mcilroy","10":"tag-ryder-cup","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-entertainment","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115296822011985784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268170","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=268170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}