{"id":179151,"date":"2025-09-30T04:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179151\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:13:08","slug":"golf-news-tom-watson-condemns-unruly-americans-fans-team-europe-wins-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179151\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf news, Tom Watson condemns unruly Americans fans, Team Europe wins, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

US golf legend Tom Watson on Monday condemned unruly Americans fans who taunted European players during their Ryder Cup victory, saying he was \u201cashamed\u201d by their behaviour.<\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s win at Bethpage Black in New York on Sunday<\/a> came after three days of fierce competition which saw US fans barrack European players relentlessly.<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy, who bore the brunt of the abuse, on Sunday described the conduct of American fans<\/a>, who at one stage hurled a beer at his wife Erica, as \u201cunacceptable\u201d. In a post on social media on Monday, former US Ryder Cup captain Watson said the crowd behaviour had crossed a line<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to apologise for the rude and mean-spirited behaviour from our American crowd at Bethpage,\u201d the eight-time major champion wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a former player, captain, and as an American, I am ashamed of what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

McIlroy repeatedly clashed verbally with spectators during Saturday\u2019s play, at one stage using an obscenity as he told them to \u201cshut up\u201d as he prepared to play a shot.<\/p>\n

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He also backed out of putts due to crowd noise, which at one point prompted tournament officials to station extra security including police dogs around the green.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lot of language that was unacceptable and abusive behaviour,\u201d McIlroy said after Europe\u2019s victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should be off-limits, but obviously it wasn\u2019t this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

FARMINGDALE, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 28: Rory McIlroy was the subject of sustained abuse.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US golf legend Tom Watson on Monday condemned unruly Americans fans who taunted European players during their Ryder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-179151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179151","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=179151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}