The behaviour towards the European team during this week’s practice rounds, held in a family-friendly atmosphere, has been largely respectful and adulating.<\/p>\n
Children under 15 have been given free admission when accompanied by an adult paying for a $255 (\u00a3190) ticket.<\/p>\n
The convivial atmosphere led to American player Collin Morikawa describing the lead-up as being “tame” and expressing the hope that “Friday is just absolute chaos” from the home fans.<\/p>\n
After Europe’s heavy defeat in 2021 at Whistling Straits, Ireland’s Shane Lowry said his wife received “dog’s abuse” from American fans.<\/p>\n
But, like Fitzpatrick and in keeping with the European team’s careful PR approach, Lowry attempted to avoid any incendiary comments on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“That was my first Ryder Cup experience, and obviously my first away one, so it was unexpected going over there,” said the 2019 Open champion.<\/p>\n
“But when you’re ready for something, it’s never as bad. I think the New York fans have been great this week so far.<\/p>\n
“Obviously it’s practice days and it’s a little bit more lighthearted. It is what it is. I’m pretty sure [the 2023 Ryder Cup in] Rome wasn’t much fun for the Americans, either.<\/p>\n
“You have to be yourself, do your own thing, try and use it as best you can. You allow it to help you as opposed to let it hinder you.<\/p>\n
“I think we are all ready for it and we are all mentally prepared for it. We’ll see.”<\/p>\n
When the action starts for real on Friday, there is expected to be a clear shift in the attitude of the American fans towards the visitors.<\/p>\n
“We’re not going to attack the Europeans today – let’s wait for Friday, Saturday and Sunday,” Sean Mateiko, a Long Islander attending Wednesday’s practice day with his two children, told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
Other partisan home fans have told us the Europeans need to have “some thick skin” because Americans are “not going to hold back”.<\/p>\n
But another female fan, who arrived on Thursday dressed as the Statue of Liberty, added: “I wouldn’t be afraid because New Yorkers, as much as we are rowdy and boisterous, we are respectful.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The behaviour towards the European team during this week’s practice rounds, held in a family-friendly atmosphere, has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-160017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}