{"id":48017,"date":"2025-09-28T03:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48017\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T03:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:35:08","slug":"rory-mcilroy-defies-the-hecklers-to-keep-europes-ryder-cup-bid-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48017\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy defies the hecklers to keep Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup bid on track"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rory McIlroy defied the taunts to keep Europe\u2019s bid to defend the Ryder Cup on track at Bethpage Black on Saturday.<\/p>\n

World number two McIlroy was heckled throughout the second day by American supporters but held firm as Europe maintained their grip on proceedings in New York.<\/p>\n

After winning the morning foursomes session 3-1 to extend their overall advantage over the United States to 8.5-3.5, Europe made a solid start in the fourballs.<\/p>\n

Justin Thomas called for calm as McIlroy prepared to play his shots (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n

Midway through the afternoon session, Europe were leading in two matches and level in the others.<\/p>\n

McIlroy, who angrily shouted at a fan trying to distract him during his morning foursomes win, was again singled out as he and Shane Lowry took on Justin Thomas and Cameron Young.<\/p>\n

Play was twice held up on the front nine as hecklers shouted at McIlroy as he prepared to take a shot.<\/p>\n

Police had to step in to call for order and Thomas also tried to calm the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The match was all square after 11 holes.<\/p>\n

Justin Rose was also in action in the fourballs (David Davies\/PA)<\/p>\n

Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood were playing tidy golf and led by two against Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau.<\/p>\n

Jon Rahm and Sepp Straka were also two up against JJ Spain and Xander Schauffele.<\/p>\n

Tyrrell Hatton, who came in as a replacement for the injured Viktor Hovland, and Matt Fitzpatrick were level with Patrick Cantlay and Sam Burns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy defied the taunts to keep Europe\u2019s bid to defend the Ryder Cup on track at Bethpage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,6514,12588,4023,33768,10916,112],"class_list":["post-48017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-place-international","tag-place-scotland","tag-place-uk","tag-ryder","tag-ryder-cup","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}