Justin Rose is not going to let a bust-up with American opponent Bryson DeChambeau overshadow a decisive day for Europe in the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n
DeChambeau screamed in the face of Rose\u2019s partner Tommy Fleetwood as tempers flared on the walkway to the 16th tee during the fourballs session on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
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But the British pair kept their cool to deliver a vital point against DeChambeau and Scottie Scheffler which helped put Europe 11.5-4.5 up and on the verge of a historic victory at Bethpage Black.<\/p>\n
The spat stemmed from Rose complaining about DeChambeau\u2019s caddy Gregory Bodine walking across the line of his putt on the 15th green.<\/p>\n
Rose eventually holed his birdie putt before the American followed suit to keep the match alive.<\/p>\n
It was then that it turned nasty with Fleetwood, Rose, their caddies and DeChambeau all becoming involved in the spat.<\/p>\n
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Tempers cooled as they made their way down the 16th hole, where Europe secured a memorable 3&2 victory thanks to a Rose putt.<\/p>\n
It was cordial after the match with all four players and caddies respectfully shaking hands.<\/p>\n
And Rose did not want the incident to define their match.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really disappointed that this has to be the talking point at the end of a really cool match,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe level of golf was incredible.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was ready to hit my putt. I didn\u2019t feel like that space was being honoured. I made my feelings known. Asked him to move.<\/p>\n
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\u201cMaybe not as politely as I could have done, but in the scenario, it\u2019s coming down the stretch, we both have a lot on our minds and it\u2019s intense out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cI said to them, \u2018If I should have done it a different way, I apologise\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut other than that, I had to step up and hit a huge putt with a lot going on.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom my point of view, I was just trying to protect my own sort of environment to execute.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all part of it. It\u2019s up to them if they want to take it the wrong way but from my point of view, there\u2019s no malintent.<\/p>\n
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\u201cTommy and I were unbelievable today and huge match against Bryson and Scottie. We were kind of aware of what that meant not to us but to the whole place.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a record-breaking day for Fleetwood as he became the first player to win all of his first four matches in a Ryder Cup on American soil.<\/p>\n
Indeed, he has just half a point less than the entire American team.<\/p>\n
But he downplayed his performance, insisting Rose was the driving force of victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt pretty good but watching Justin Rose on the golf course is some of my proudest few hours on the golf course,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI absolutely loved it. So blessed to be by his side today. Absolutely amazing, what a golfer, what a human being, and to get another point on the board for the team, obviously feels massive.<\/p>\n
\u201cJustin, I can\u2019t speak highly enough about him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Rose is not going to let a bust-up with American opponent Bryson DeChambeau overshadow a decisive day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,6933,2057,755,6920,14605,1657,113122,85,42347],"class_list":["post-173954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bryson-dechambeau","tag-europe","tag-golf","tag-justin-rose","tag-ryder-cup","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-sky-sports-golf","tag-sports","tag-tommy-fleetwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}