{"id":279046,"date":"2025-10-05T07:51:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279046\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T07:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:51:24","slug":"scottie-schefflers-caddie-clears-air-with-francesco-molinari-after-fiery-ryder-cup-tiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279046\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler&#8217;s caddie clears air with Francesco Molinari after fiery Ryder Cup tiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Scott and Francesco Molinari are trying to turn the temperature down at the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n<p>After Scott, who is Scottie Scheffler\u2019s caddie, got into it with Molinari, Team Europe\u2019s vice captain on Saturday, he posted a public apology\u00a0on his Instagram page in the form of a video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here with Francesco Molinari. This guy right here has always been just a very sweet-spirited man,\u201d Scott said, while standing next to Molinari. \u201cWe had a heated moment yesterday but what many of you don\u2019t realize is we got over it by the time we walked off the 16th tee, it was over. neither one of us want to make this competition about us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to let the players go out there and do their thing. And obviously Team Europe is kicking our butts, and hopefully today we can make it a little more equal, have a better competition, give the fans what they want. But ultimately, I just want to spread love and joy. It\u2019s a great competition, it\u2019s great fun. This is a great man right here. Just want to say I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAppreciate you and like I told you, I\u2019ve got huge admiration for you and love you,\u201d Molinari responded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scottie Scheffler\u2019s caddie, Ted Scott has posted a public apology to Francesco Molinari on his Instagram page. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come and there will be less hostilities at the Ryder Cup today \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xlUCfotTTr\">pic.twitter.com\/xlUCfotTTr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Flushing It (@flushingitgolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flushingitgolf\/status\/1972309611089891667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Things got heated on Saturday during the match which featured Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau against Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood.<\/p>\n<p>Rose was lining up his putt on the 15th green when DeChambeau\u2019s caddie, Greg Bodine, walked in front of him. After Rose and DeChambeau both made their putts, Fleetwood said something to DeChambeau while the group was walking off the green.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37239659\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2236938768.jpg\" alt=\"Vice captain Francesco Molinari of Team Europe looks on prior to the Ryder Cup 2025 at Black Course at Bethpage State Park Golf Course on September 23, 2025 in Farmingdale, New York. \" class=\"wp-image-37239659\"  \/>Vice captain Francesco Molinari of Team Europe looks on before the Ryder Cup 2025 at Black Course at Bethpage State Park Golf Course on September 23, 2025 in Farmingdale, New York. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Molinari then put his hand on Scott\u2019s shoulder and shouted at him in Italian as they walked up to the 16th green.<\/p>\n<p>Both DeChambeau and Scheffler declined to speak to media afterward. The Post\u2019s Mark Cannizaro reported that the former told both he and a reporter from the Golf Channel to \u201cget the f\u2013k away\u201d from the U.S. team before Scheffler declined an interview in more polite fashion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.46494993;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37239672\" width=\"864\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2237355574_48bfb2.jpg\" alt=\"Scottie Scheffler of Team United States plays a shot on the 15th hole while his caddie Ted Scott looks on during a practice round prior to the Ryder Cup 2025 at Black Course at Bethpage State Park Golf Course on September 25, 2025 in Farmingdale, New York. \" class=\"wp-image-37239672\"  \/>Scottie Scheffler plays a shot on the 15th hole while his caddie Ted Scott looks on during a practice round prior to the Ryder Cup 2025 at Black Course at Bethpage State Park Golf Course on September 25, 2025 in Farmingdale, New York.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was ready to hit my putt [and] I didn\u2019t feel like that space was being honored,\u201d Rose told reporters. \u201cI was waiting to putt. The boys were obviously working on their read, going through a lot of their sort of whatever, calculations and bits and pieces, so I sort of waited a few seconds and then I felt like they came up again and I was like, \u2018It\u2019s my putt, right?\u2019 Or however I said it. I maybe made my feelings\u00a0known [and] asked him to move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe I didn\u2019t say it as politely as I could have said it in the moment, but by no means was there any disrespect or anything like that. Obviously, it was taken the wrong way. I said to the boys, \u2018If you want to say excuse me, please, then yeah, my bad.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a shame that the match got to that point because it was actually a really great match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team Europe went on to in the Ryder Cup 15-13.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ted Scott and Francesco Molinari are trying to turn the temperature down at the Ryder Cup. 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