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\nRory McIlroy and Shane Lowry (r) at the 2025 Ryder Cup<\/p>\n
Rory McIlroy does not want a repeat of the abuse which surrounded him during Europe’s Ryder Cup victory over the United States at Bethpage Black when the 2027 tournament arrives in Ireland.<\/p>\n
McIlroy and his wife Erica Stoll were repeatedly targeted verbally by spectators as the Europeans clinched a 15-13 victory at the New York course in September.<\/p>\n
The teams will reconvene next September at Adare Manor in Limerick, and the 36-year-old believes it will be up to him and his team-mates to address any unseemly behaviour.<\/p>\n
Asked if there might be a greater focus on crowd behaviour because of what happened at Bethpage, McIlroy said: “I think that\u2019s up to the home team to set the tone early on in the week. If you see something or you hear something, you point it out straight away.<\/p>\n
\nRory McIlroy and Shane Lowry (r) at the 2025 Ryder Cup<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s not the way the Ryder Cup should be played. It\u2019s not in the spirit of why the Ryder Cup was created in the first place.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ll obviously do everything we can to make sure that the game and the matches are played in the right spirit.”<\/p>\n
McIlroy is preparing to defend his AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am title, his first PGA Tour event of the year, and is confident he will not face a similar reception this time around.<\/p>\n
He said: “I would think that the Ryder Cup was a one-off and it was because I was on the opposing team. I would hope not. That remains to be seen.<\/p>\n
“I think the reception that I get most places that I go to play is usually amazing and I\u2019m deeply grateful for that. I think the Ryder Cup was just a one-off.”<\/p>\n
McIlroy trails only Scottie Scheffler in the world rankings heading into the tournament, but knows only consistency will help him bridge the gap to the world number one.<\/p>\n
He said: “I\u2019ll never stop singing Scottie\u2019s praises because he\u2019s incredible at what he\u2019s doing and the way he does it. I\u2019ve had nice runs like that, but I\u2019ve always been a little more up and down.<\/p>\n
“I think anyone that wants to catch Scottie or get anywhere close is going to have to consistently bring that sort of game week in and week out like he does. He\u2019s really the first one since Tiger [Woods] that\u2019s doing this.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy does not want a repeat of the abuse which surrounded him during Europe’s Ryder Cup victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-473058","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\/473058","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=473058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}