{"id":154224,"date":"2025-09-19T05:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154224\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T05:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:21:07","slug":"lanny-wadkins-rips-ryder-cup-coverage-calls-european-players-wusses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154224\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanny Wadkins Rips Ryder Cup Coverage, Calls European Players \u2018Wusses\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lanny Wadkins calls it like he sees it.<\/p>\n

PublishedSeptember 18, 2025 11:10 AM EDT\u2022UpdatedSeptember 18, 2025 10:57 AM EDT<\/p>\n

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Former U.S. Ryder Cup<\/a> captain Lanny Wadkins said the quiet part out loud.<\/p>\n

From the moment it was announced years ago that the 2025 Ryder Cup would be held at Bethpage Black in New York<\/a>, the conversation has been dominated by just how unruly the fans may be and how big of an impact they could have in favor of the Americans.<\/p>\n

Every sports fan in America is well aware of the reputation \u2014 fair or not \u2014 that New Yorkers can be a bit rambunctious at sporting events, and 50,000-plus at a Ryder Cup, when only a handful of matches are taking place at a time, could make for quite the scene.<\/p>\n

It feels like we’ve reached the point where it’s not necessarily a question, but an assumption that there will be a moment involving a fan and a European player in which one or the other, or both, may cross \u2018the line.\u2019<\/p>\n

READ: Team Europe Using VR Headsets To Simulate Rowdy New York Fans Ahead Of Ryder Cup At Bethpage<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s interesting, though, anytime the Americans are the visitors in the biennial event, we never hear a peep about European supporters not being respectful or doing too much. We’ve certainly never spent months on end in the lead-up to the Ryder Cup, essentially worried about what European fans may or may not do to affect American players.<\/p>\n

\"2025<\/p>\n

The Ryder Cup trophy is seen at the Bethpage Black Course.(Photo by Gary Kellner\/PGA of America via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

That is the exact point Wadkins, who captained the U.S. Ryder Cup team in 1995, expressed to Golf Channel recently, and he did not sugarcoat things whatsoever.<\/p>\n

“I always find it very interesting that we never say a word about what happens to us when we’re playing in Europe. I know I’ve been on the first tee as far back as 1985, I got introduced and had the entire grandstands boo me,” he explained.<\/p>\n

“I mean, we’ve got the same treatment over there. We just never complained about it,” he continued. “Sometimes I think the Europeans are just a bunch of wusses and can’t handle the heat.”<\/p>\n

READ: European Ryder Cup Team Bracing For Donald Trump Appearance, Hopeful For No Delays<\/a><\/p>\n

In Team Europe’s defense, it’s not their players or captain Luke Donald driving this narrative about New York fans potentially being unruly or complaining about the environment; it’s being drummed up by practically everyone in the media.<\/p>\n

Having said that, Wadkins’ point about international fans getting a pass by not only their homer media but plenty of media Stateside is more than fair to point out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lanny Wadkins calls it like he sees it. PublishedSeptember 18, 2025 11:10 AM EDT\u2022UpdatedSeptember 18, 2025 10:57 AM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-154224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}