{"id":165706,"date":"2025-09-28T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165706\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:05:09","slug":"keegan-bradley-defends-us-ryder-cup-fans-as-just-passionate-amid-chaos-ryder-cup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165706\/","title":{"rendered":"Keegan Bradley defends US Ryder Cup fans as just \u2018passionate\u2019 amid chaos | Ryder Cup 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keegan Bradley refused to condemn American Ryder Cup fans after the grim scenes that formed a backdrop to day two at Bethpage Black. Bradley went so far as to curiously suggest spectators had been \u201cviolent\u201d during the Ryder Cup in Rome two years ago. Bradley\u2019s approach was in stark contrast to that of his European counterpart, Luke Donald<\/a>, who believes some those in the galleries engaged in unacceptable conduct.<\/p>\n

Europe lead their hosts 11\u00bd-4\u00bd heading into the final day. Just as striking on Saturday, though, was a series of unacceptable shouts towards European players. These were personal \u2013 especially in the direction of Rory McIlroy \u2013 and regularly delivered as golfers were preparing to play. McIlroy and Shane Lowry completed a fourball victory with state troopers lining holes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought the fans were passionate,\u201d said Bradley. \u201cI mean, their home team is getting beat bad. They are passionate fans. I wasn\u2019t at Rome but I heard a lot of stories that Rome was pretty violent as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the fans of New York from what I have seen have been pretty good. You\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 quieten down some people that were like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matt Fitzpatrick celebrates surrounded by New York state troopers after he and Tyrrell Hatton defeated Sam Burns and Patrick Cantlay. Photograph: Harry How\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Bradley took umbrage with the suggestion the US team had stoked those in the stands. Collin Morikawa called for fans to bring \u201cchaos\u201d to the Ryder Cup<\/a>. \u201cRyder Cups are wild,\u201d Bradley said. \u201cI don\u2019t appreciate those words that you just said. I know what you\u2019re trying to do. The Ryder Cup is full of passionate fans, full of passionate players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Donald was asked to explain his team\u2019s most difficult moments. \u201cIt was loud, it was raucous,\u201d said the Englishman. \u201cWhat I consider crossing the line is personal insults and making sounds when they are trying to hit on their backswings or very close to when they are trying to go into their routines. That did happen a little bit. It\u2019s happened at other Ryder Cups, too. It\u2019s something we prepared for and I can see how well they have dealt with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings got tougher out there and it fired them up even more. They were able to get better through those difficult moments out there. That is what makes me most proud as a captain, just their ability to take the punches and come back even stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Europe needing only two and a half points to retain the cup, Bradley knows the US require a sporting miracle. \u201cWild stuff happens in sports all the time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Donald expanded on the neck injury to Viktor Hovland, which raises the possibility of Sunday\u2019s singles being reduced to 11 matches. Hovland was due to feature in Saturday\u2019s afternoon fourballs after victory alongside Robert MacIntyre in the morning but was a late call-off. Should the Norwegian fail to recover, a predetermined US player will also be removed from the draw and both teams will receive a half point.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe was feeling quite uncomfortable in the middle of the round this morning,\u201d Donald said. \u201cHe got some physio. He was given a lot of anti-inflammatories during the round. He finished. He was feeling OK. He went in to rest and then he went back out to the range to try and hit some balls. When he got to the driver, he hit one and it was very painful. He hit another one and it got even more painful.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is on his way now to go get an MRI scan 20 or 30 minutes away and we\u2019ll see in the morning what he is like. It\u2019s definitely stiffened up a little bit. He would love to play and he\u2019ll do everything he can to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

The highlight of the singles draw is Scottie Scheffler versus McIlroy in match four. Europe\u2019s desire to wrap this up early is demonstrated by the placing of Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, McIlroy and Jon Rahm in the top half dozen games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keegan Bradley refused to condemn American Ryder Cup fans after the grim scenes that formed a backdrop to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-165706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165706","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=165706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}