{"id":166175,"date":"2025-09-29T13:08:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ryder-cup-golf-europe-responds-to-america-fans-abuse-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:08:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:08:43","slug":"ryder-cup-golf-europe-responds-to-america-fans-abuse-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ryder-cup-golf-europe-responds-to-america-fans-abuse-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup golf: Europe responds to America fans' abuse – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LONDON \u2014 Europe may have defeated the United States in golf\u2019s marquee event<\/a>. But the verbal abuse hurled at the European players by a baying, boozed-up New York crowd left a sour taste Monday, with calls for tighter policing of American spectators.
The scenes at the Ryder Cup<\/a> were unrecognizable from golf\u2019s genteel archetype,<\/a> where etiquette demands silence on the tee and applause greets opponents\u2019 drives and putts. Instead the Bethpage Black Course, on Long Island, descended this weekend into a bearpit of personal insults, vulgar chanting and \u2014 in one instance \u2014 a beer thrown at the wife of star Rory McIlroy<\/a>.
McIlroy, the world No.2, led the jubilant response, including a chant asking President Donald Trump if he had seen the result (he had \u2014 and congratulated the Europeans.)
The Northern Irishman received the brunt of the abuse, which veered into anti-Irish and homophobic jeers and references to his well-documented marital issues<\/a>.
It wasn’t just the crowd.
Heather McMahan, an American warm-up comedian, was forced to apologize and step down after leading a chant of “f— you, Rory!” And there was a heated verbal altercation between Englishman Justin Rose, California native Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> and their caddies.
All the while there was a torrent of trash talking, at one point so bad that McIlroy refused to take his stroke until it ceased. Other supporters tried to distract the Europeans with squeaky rubber ducks that came free with a cocktail being sold out on the course.
It got so bad that by the end McIlroy had to be flanked by state troopers. He was not shy of giving it back, at one point addressing a separate, pointed \u201cf— you!\u201d to a number of offenders after smashing a drive.
It was a remarkable scene for a sport whose historic restraint means audiences are permitted within an arm’s reach of the athletes.
In the end, McIlroy and his European teammates silenced the crowd the hard way \u2014 edging out the Americans 15\u201313 to win and retain the the biennial golf tournament, which pits a super team of Americans against their Euro-counterparts.
Europe’s win came despite a dramatic late surge from the American hosts, who had looked destined for a historic, humiliating thrashing going into Sunday.
The visitors said the gauntlet of mockery and abuse made their resistance doubly hard.
European captain Luke Donald told a news conference afterward that the atmosphere was \u201crough,\u201d \u201cbrutal\u201d and \u201cnasty.\u201d McIlroy himself said it was unacceptable behavior.
\u201cI think golf should be held to a higher standard than what was seen out there this week,\u201d McIlroy said. \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. Sometimes this week we didn\u2019t see that,\u201d he said, deploying understatement to the extreme.
In truth, the Ryder Cup has long since departed from golf\u2019s gentlemanly beginnings, with rowdy taunts and sledging now par for the course. And the sport in general is far from unblemished, with issues over inclusion and race<\/a> lingering long after the era of segregation.
But many American pundits agreed the abuse this weekend was on another level \u2014 and crossed a line.
Joel Beall, writing in Golf Digest,<\/a> bemoaned \u201cthe toxic alchemy at work here: alcohol mixed with entitlement, rudeness fused with xenophobia.\u201d
Some Americans were audibly dismayed at the conduct of their countrymen. Justin Thomas, on the U.S. team, gestured to his supporters in a failed attempt to calm their worst excesses.
“I don’t think anyone’s safety was necessarily in danger” but “words hurt, too,” he said afterward. American captain Keegan Bradley defended the “passionate” New York crowd. \u201cYou\u2019re always going to have a few people that cross the line, and that\u2019s unfortunate,\u201d he added.
Inevitably perhaps, politics was not far away.
\u201cGrotesque Bethpage circus holds a mirror up to Trump\u2019s America,\u201d read a Monday headline in Britain\u2019s right-wing Daily Telegraph newspaper. The left-leaning Guardian opined, \u201cU.S. fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump\u2019s all-caps America.\u201d
In the event, Trump was gracious in defeat.
He had made an appearance at the course Friday, eliciting chants of his name and the ubiquitous \u201cU-S-A! U-S-A!\u201d The European team responded playfully late Sunday, posting a video online in which they chanted, \u201care you watching, Donald Trump?\u201d
And, it turns out, he was, responding with a comfortingly generous message to end a toxic weekend.
\u201cYes, I\u2019m watching,\u201d Trump posted on Truth Social. \u201cCongratulations!\u201d
Alexander Smith is a senior reporter for\u00a0NBC News Digital based in London.
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