{"id":4413,"date":"2025-09-29T10:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2025-09-29T10:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:23:49","slug":"with-ryder-cup-over-rory-mcilroy-admonishes-fans-over-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4413","title":{"rendered":"With Ryder Cup over, Rory McIlroy admonishes fans over behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>FARMINGDALE, N.Y. &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"65575c5e-0ef2-9f58-6495-42da8638a332\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/3470\/rory-mcilroy\">Rory McIlroy<\/a>, the target of constant heckling at Bethpage Black, called the fans&#8217; behavior unacceptable and said Americans should have been supporting their own players, not using that energy to insult the Europeans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we should ever accept that in golf,&#8221; McIlroy said Sunday after Europe finished off a 15-13 win against the United States. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we should ever accept that in golf. I think golf should be held to a higher standard than what was seen out there this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of three days, McIlroy was the subject of a number of insults and jeers &#8212; some involving his wife and family, others as he was in the process of hitting a shot &#8212; that caused delays and prompted the PGA of America to add extra security.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;The police out there and the amount of security presence was insane,&#8221; McIlroy said. &#8220;Look, nothing was going to happen. There wasn&#8217;t going to be a physical altercation or anything like that. &#8230; There was a lot of language that was unacceptable and abusive behavior.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, McIlroy played alongside <a data-player-guid=\"81036860-da90-8d9e-be1e-38fdfff557fc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/4587\/shane-lowry\">Shane Lowry<\/a>, and the two received constant verbal abuse throughout the afternoon. Two people were thrown off the course, according to a New York State police spokesperson, and the PGA of America added security to the group and increased fan behavior warning signs.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s singles sessions did not feature as many alterations or situations in the galleries, but McIlroy still was often targeted by fans throughout his match with <a data-player-guid=\"38cbeebe-aac8-fb36-dce0-cf45436086e4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/9478\/scottie-scheffler\">Scottie Scheffler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think if I was an American, I would be annoyed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t hear a lot of shouts for Scottie today, but I heard a lot of shouts against me. It&#8217;s like, support your players. That&#8217;s the thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"82c34ffc-6ce1-226c-0bf9-32fadb8fa779\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/4848\/justin-thomas\">Justin Thomas<\/a>, who played against McIlroy and Lowry on Saturday, acknowledged the kind of things fans shouted at the European stars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/4425906\/cameron-young\">Cam [Young]<\/a> and I said it to Shane and Rory yesterday that we felt for them. It was unfortunate,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;Cam and I just wished that we gave them something to cheer for instead of people to cheer against. I think that was kind of the main consensus of the last two days, that we weren&#8217;t giving them enough to cheer for, and they were just trying to help us win. I guess that&#8217;s the New York fans for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\" \/><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">&#8220;It was a rough week for all of us, but at the same time, we shut them up by our performance,&#8221; Rory McIlroy said of the fans after Team Europe&#8217;s win.\u00a0<cite>Jared C. Tilton\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A video on social media showed Lowry having to be held back by his caddie as a fan said something before McIlroy hit a drive Saturday. Another video showed McIlroy walking with his wife, Erica, when a beer appeared to be thrown in their direction and hit her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was out there for two days with Erica McIlroy, and the amount of abuse that she received was astonishing,&#8221; Lowry said. &#8220;And the way she was out there supporting her husband and supporting her team was unbelievable, and kudos to her for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy said he doesn&#8217;t exactly have a blueprint for when he responds to fans and bases it on impulse, but that it felt &#8220;very f&#8212;ing satisfying&#8221; to tell a fan to &#8220;shut the f&#8212; up&#8221; as he did Saturday morning when one yelled during his pre-shot routine before he hit his approach to a few feet on the 16th hole.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; McIlroy said. &#8220;It was a rough week for all of us, but at the same time, we shut them up by our performance.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/46415671\/with-ryder-cup-rory-mcilroy-admonishes-fans-behavior\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARMINGDALE, N.Y. &#8212; Rory McIlroy, the target of constant heckling at Bethpage Black, called the fans&#8217; behavior unacceptable and said Americans should have been supporting their own players, not using that energy to insult the Europeans. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we should ever accept that in golf,&#8221; McIlroy said Sunday after Europe finished off a 15-13 &#8230; <a title=\"With Ryder Cup over, Rory McIlroy admonishes fans over behavior\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4413\" aria-label=\"Read more about With Ryder Cup over, Rory McIlroy admonishes fans over behavior\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/With-Ryder-Cup-over-Rory-McIlroy-admonishes-fans-over-behavior.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4415,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions\/4415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}