{"id":401481,"date":"2026-01-09T07:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401481\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:18:10","slug":"jon-rahm-details-ryder-cup-abuse-at-bethpage-black-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401481\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm details Ryder Cup abuse at Bethpage Black \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems everywhere a member of the European Ryder Cup team goes, they are still getting asked about the fan abuse at Bethpage Black. Even though we\u2019ve turned the page to 2026, it remains the topic that won\u2019t die.<\/p>\n<p>No player has gone into specific detail quite like Jon Rahm did during an appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VJKoRGKvyGo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GOLF\u2019s Subpar podcast<\/a> that went live Wednesday, though. Other players just alluded to the fact some heinous things were being said, but the two-time major winner came out and said exactly what he heard that week. And it was, colourful, we\u2019ll say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/pga-tour-has-changed-one-of-its-most-controversial-rules\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The PGA Tour has changed one of its most controversial rules<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith my group, so with me, Tyrrell [Hatton], Sepp [Straka], all three of us, rather overweight,\u201d Rahm explained. \u201cTwo of them with a very far back hairline, and two of us being in LIV, all I heard was \u2018traitor\u2019, \u2018terrorist\u2019, \u2018fat\u2019, \u2018Ozempic\u2019, a lot. And then, uh, Turkey and hairline appointment things.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re scratching your head on the \u201cTurkey\u201d thing, the country has become a prime destination for those in need of hair transplants. Creative stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rahm, who you would think would feed off of that stuff, said he did his best to block it out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou almost have to make a choice at that point,\u201d he said. \u201cYou either give it back to them [the fans], or you don\u2019t, and you know what kind of person you are. Clearly, Rory [McIlroy] and Shane [Lowry] fed off of that and did great, I know if I start having the back and forth banter with the crowd, it\u2019s going to take away from golf. The best I could do was just stay quiet and act like it wasn\u2019t there. That was the best way I could handle it, because it was rough.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rahm\u2019s method led him to a 3-2-0 record on the week, including 2-0-0 in foursomes. When asked if it was the toughest golf environment he\u2019d ever been in, Rahm nodded his head in agreement.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It seems everywhere a member of the European Ryder Cup team goes, they are still getting asked about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[7814,4225,64,63,73135,755,138747,15811,44,7716,213458,14605,49884,85,213459,76226,213460,2124],"class_list":["post-401481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-abuse","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bethpage-black","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-jon-rahm","tag-news","tag-ozempic","tag-rahm","tag-ryder-cup","tag-sepp-straka","tag-sports","tag-subpar-podcast","tag-the-loop","tag-traitor","tag-tyrrell-hatton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401481","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=401481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}