McIlroy telling a fan to \u201cshut the f**k up\u201d<\/a> on the 15th hole right before he hit a dagger approach shot onto the green, which helped seal another point for the Europeans. During the afternoon, McIlroy backed off his putt and actually refused to play on for a period until course officials could get the crowd to quiet down.\n <\/p>\n\n On Sunday, the PGA of America confirmed that actress and comedian Heather McMahan stepped down from her gig as the master of ceremonies on the first tee after leading the crowd in a \u201cf**k you, Rory\u201d chant.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cHeather McMahan has extended an apology to Rory Mcllroy and Ryder Cup Europe and has stepped down from hosting the first tee of the Ryder Cup,\u201d the PGA of America said in a statement.\n <\/p>\n
\n One Irish fan told CNN Sports, \u201cThey kept talking about his wife, and I thought that was disrespectful. That\u2019s apparently what New York does.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The noise while Lowry and McIlroy were trying to hit was so disruptive that American Justin Thomas, a veteran of this tournament, also served as a course marshal and raised his hands to try to encourage the crowd to let his opponents hit in the customary silence.\n <\/p>\n
\n Lowry and McIlroy seemed at times to revel in the chaos, jawing back at the fans and gesturing to the crowd after they hit big shots. But there were also moments when it seemed like a line had been crossed. McIlroy said the fans themselves will have to decide whether they went too far.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cLook, when you play an away Ryder Cup, it\u2019s really, really challenging,\u201d McIlroy said after his day was over. \u201cIt\u2019s not for me to say. People can be their own judge of whether they took it too far or not. I\u2019m just proud of us for being able to win today with what we had to go through.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Lowry, the fiery Irishman who revels in this tournament and wears his heart on his sleeve, took it all in good fun.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt was intense. It was like something I\u2019ve never experienced. But this is what I live for. This is it. This is, like, honestly, the reason I get up in the morning, for stuff like this,\u201d Lowry said. \u201cThis is what I love doing. I love being a part of this team. I really want us to win this tournament.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n These are long days on Long Island. The gates at Bethpage opened at 5 a.m. ET on Friday and Saturday, two hours before the first tee times. Play then lasts deep into the evening with one very expensive ticket providing over 12 hours on the course up close with the best golfers in the world.\n <\/p>\n
\n It also gets you access to all the highly priced alcohol you can drink, and \u2013 judging by the overflowing recycling bins and empty cans littering the galleries \u2013 people are taking advantage of that opportunity. Especially as the day goes on, the noise level ratchets up and so does the invective hurled at the European players \u2013 and it\u2019s not just McIlroy.\n <\/p>\n
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\n After Jon Rahm teed off with Team Europe partner Sepp Straka during Saturday\u2019s afternoon fourball session, the crowd on hand at the first couple of holes made comments on the 30-year-old Spaniard\u2019s weight and appearance and his playing on the LIV Golf Tour.\n <\/p>\n
\n Rahm did not bat an eye despite the verbal jab, which included questions on if he was used to playing in front of fans during LIV events. He would go on to lose his first match of the tournament to Team USA\u2019s Xander Schauffele and JJ Spaun.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cYou\u2019re always going to have a few people that cross the line, and that\u2019s unfortunate. I was happy to see our players trying to quiet down some people that were like that,\u201d USA captain Keegan Bradley said Saturday night.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cPart of it is our fault. We are not playing up to the standards that they want to see, and they are angry, and they should be.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The moments where passion boils over into confrontation aren\u2019t limited to the grandstands.\n <\/p>\n
\n Tensions bubbled during a tightly contested and incredibly well-played match between Tommy Fleetwood\/Justin Rose and Scottie Scheffler\/Bryson DeChambeau on the 15th green.\n <\/p>\n
\n As Rose was lining up a birdie putt that would clinch at least a half-point for the Europeans, DeChambeau\u2019s caddie walked into his line of sight. An agitated Rose waved the caddie away and proceeded to nail his putt to put the pressure on DeChambeau to match his birdie with one of his own.\n <\/p>\n
\n After the intense American holed it, he confronted Rose about the Englishman\u2019s gesture toward his caddie \u2013 apparently unaware that Rose had apologized just before the American\u2019s putt. That confrontation between Rose and DeChambeau led Fleetwood to try and intervene to calm things down, but DeChambeau was having none of it and jawed back at Fleetwood as they walked to the next tee box.\n <\/p>\n
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\n There were more words exchanged between caddies and players and things were all a bit awkward and tense on the 16th tee. The Europeans wrapped up the match on that hole and everyone shook hands, apparently putting water under the bridge.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt was a shame that the match got to that point because it was actually a really great match. I was waiting to putt, the boys were obviously working on their read, obviously going through a lot of their sort of whatever, calculations and bits and pieces, so I sort of waited a few seconds and then I felt like they came up again and I was sort of \u2013 I questioned whether \u2013 I was like, \u2018it\u2019s my putt, right,\u2019 or however I said it,\u201d Rose said after the match.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cMaybe I didn\u2019t say it as politely as I could have said it in the moment, but by no means was there any disrespect or anything like that, but obviously it was taken the wrong way.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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\n There\u2019s a good possibility that Sunday might be a day for the Europeans to be roundly cheered as they take what should be a victory lap around Bethpage Black. Their fans have made their presence known this weekend, singing songs and cheering loudly for the frequent big shots that this incredible European team seem to keep pulling out over and over.\n <\/p>\n
\n But there\u2019s the very real chance that American emotion could boil over as frustration over the massive deficit Team USA faces gets combined with proximity to Team Europe\u2019s stars.\n <\/p>\n
\n European captain Luke Donald believes his team is ready.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cObviously, their job is not done yet but to have this stand in New York with most of the cheers coming from our side is incredible,\u201d Donald said after the day\u2019s play wrapped up.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cJust the resiliency and the confidence these guys have in themselves, in their partners, is really, truly incredible.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n CNN\u2019s Jacob Lev contributed to this report.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farmingdale, New York \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 The fans that line the holes at Bethpage Black have a reputation in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-189632","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\/189632","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=189632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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