writing in Golf Digest<\/a>, bemoaned \u201cthe toxic alchemy at work here: alcohol mixed with entitlement, rudeness fused with xenophobia.\u201d<\/p>\nSome Americans were audibly dismayed at the conduct. Justin Thomas, on the U.S. team, gestured to his supporters in a failed attempt to calm their worst excesses.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think anyone’s safety was necessarily in danger,” but “words hurt, too,” he said afterward. American captain Keegan Bradley defended the “passionate” New York crowd. \u201cYou\u2019re always going to have a few people that cross the line, and that\u2019s unfortunate,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Inevitably perhaps, politics was not far away. <\/p>\n
\u201cGrotesque Bethpage circus holds a mirror up to Trump\u2019s America,\u201d read a headline Monday in Britain\u2019s right-wing Daily Telegraph newspaper. The left-leaning Guardian opined, \u201cU.S. fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump\u2019s all-caps America.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the event, Trump was gracious in defeat.<\/p>\n
He had made an appearance at the course Friday, eliciting chants of his name and the ubiquitous \u201cU-S-A! U-S-A!\u201d The European team responded playfully late Sunday, posting a video online in which it chanted, \u201cAre you watching, Donald Trump?\u201d<\/p>\n
And, it turns out, he was, responding with a comfortingly generous message to end a toxic weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I\u2019m watching,\u201d Trump posted on Truth Social. \u201cCongratulations!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But many American pundits agreed the abuse this weekend was on another level \u2014 and crossed a line.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-188335","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\/188335","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=188335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}