in the Ryder Cup. <\/a><\/p>\nEngland’s Fitzpatrick was also subjected to pantomime boos from the partisan fans when he lost out to Cameron Young at the PGA Tour’s flagship Players Championship in March.<\/p>\n
“I would say every golfer that’s played a professional tournament has had a message of abuse from someone that is related to gambling,” said Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n
“You go and type in a player’s name who maybe isn’t playing well, maybe someone who’s favoured to play well, you type the name into Twitter [now known as X] and you’ll just see their name followed by abuse after abuse after abuse.<\/p>\n
“For me, it’s definitely becoming a problem and the issue is, particularly in golf, it would be very easy to influence a bet, whether it’s shouting on someone’s backswing, shouting on a putting stroke. <\/p>\n
“It’s really easy. Obviously that is really hard to monitor, but it is definitely an issue.”<\/p>\n
With fans at this week’s 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale being asked to abide by a new code of conduct brought in by the R&A, local favourite Tommy Fleetwood stressed that striking the right balance is key to delivering the best possible feeling around the course.<\/p>\n
“The crowds are a huge part of golf, and it’s it’s difficult to ask everyone to behave in a manner that you would want them to behave in while wanting the atmosphere to be as big as possible and as good as possible,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I’ve always felt like atmospheres have been great. I’ve had support on my side 99% of the time, but I’ve also had it against me the odd time. <\/p>\n
“Sometimes those have been my most enjoyable atmospheres when the crowd are that little bit against you and gives you that little bit extra.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports betting is becoming a problem among golf fans and contributing to personal abuse hurled at players, says…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-547983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547983","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=547983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}