{"id":175701,"date":"2025-09-28T16:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175701\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T16:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:11:06","slug":"ryder-cup-mc-apologises-and-steps-down-over-foul-mouthed-mcilroy-chant-ryder-cup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175701\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup MC apologises and steps down over foul-mouthed McIlroy chant | Ryder Cup 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The comedian employed to warm up the crowd at the Ryder Cup has apologised and stepped down from her job before the final day\u2019s play after she was recorded leading a foul-mouthed Rory McIlroy<\/a> chant on the 1st tee on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Heather McMahan apologised to McIlroy and Ryder Cup Europe for the remarks. It took the PGA of America 20 hours to address the incident<\/a>, which happened before dawn on Saturday, inviting questions about whether they were quick enough to act.<\/p>\n

McMahan had been employed to stoke up the crowd on the 1st tee in an attempt to build the atmosphere, and was using a megaphone to lead them in their chants. She tried to persuade them to join her in a chorus of \u201cScottie! Scottie! Scheffler!\u201d to the tune of Queen\u2019s We Will Rock You but was booed into abandoning the effort. \u201cFuck you Rory!\u201d was more popular, and became a persistent chant throughout the day. McIlroy responded by blowing the crowd kisses when he came to the tee.<\/p>\n

It set the tone of an ugly day at Bethpage, when the atmosphere around McIlroy in particular became so toxic that the PGA of America brought in squads of state police and park police to walk the course with his group midway through their round. Several spectators were evicted.<\/p>\n

McIlroy was repeatedly targeted with personal abuse and grew so exasperated with people shouting out during his backswing that at one point he turned around and told the crowd to \u201cshut the fuck up\u201d. The PGA of America repeatedly posted spectator etiquette warnings on the screens around the grounds. They were widely booed every time they appeared.<\/p>\n

McIlroy described the atmosphere as \u201cvery, very challenging\u201d. He won both matches regardless.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t mind them having a go at us,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cLike that\u2019s to be expected. I mean, that\u2019s what an away Ryder Cup<\/a> is. Whenever they are still doing it while you are over the ball and trying to hit your shot, that\u2019s the tough thing. You know, look, in between shots, say whatever you want to me. That\u2019s totally fine. But just give us the respect to let us hit shots.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The comedian employed to warm up the crowd at the Ryder Cup has apologised and stepped down from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-175701","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\/175701","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=175701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}