McIlroy helped Luke Donald\u2019s team to victory at Bethpage Black<\/a>, but the visitors faced some vicious insults from the crowd throughout an intense three days of competition.<\/p>\n McIlroy, teammate Shane Lowry and others were singled out with personal abuse, with the Masters champion recalling the intensity of the week in New York.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t care if people say whatever they\u2019re saying to me, even the first-tee announcer saying, \u2018f*** you, Rory,\u2019 that much is nothing compared to the other stuff we heard,\u201d McIlroy told Stick to Football<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cErica, my wife, would say, she\u2019s a grown woman, she\u2019s strong, she can handle that, but when it starts to get into, I heard stuff about my daughter that I couldn\u2019t even repeat here, it was horrific. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s also like society at the minute as well, it\u2019s the mob mentality, they see other people doing something and think it\u2019s OK. By far [the worst I\u2019ve experienced], 2016 we played the Ryder Cup in Minnesota, I thought that was bad, I compare this year [2025] to 2016, and 2016 was nothing compared to some of the stuff we heard.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are 50,000 people there, all it takes is 500 of those to be bad eggs, and it skews the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n Luke Donald has faced calls to remain in his role<\/a> as captain for the 2027 edition at Adare Manor in Ireland, conceding that he \u201cwrestles with what the upside is\u201d of a third successive cup in charge<\/a> of Team Europe.<\/p>\n While Team Europe stalwart Justin Rose is regarded as one of the other leading candidates,<\/a> though the former US Open champion has highlighted his desire to continue as a player in the tournament<\/a>, underlining how \u201cthe captaincy is not in two years time, it starts in two months, or something\u201d and \u201cthat\u2019s something I haven\u2019t got my head around\u201d.<\/p>\n The 2027 Ryder Cup takes place at Ireland\u2019s Adare Manor between 17 and 19 September, though the captain\u2019s preparations begin early this year, with the announcements expected in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-386922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386922","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=386922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rory](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5524790f7783eb394fca9ee9955e9bd6Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzY2MjI2MzE3-2.81798076.jpg\")
Rory McIlroy helped Europe win the Ryder Cup in New York (PA Wire)<\/p>\n