Europe’s victory came amid torrents of verbal abuse from a New York crowd which was heavily criticised for its behaviour.<\/p>\n
American great Tom Watson, the eight-time major champion who twice led the US team in 1993 and 2014, said he was “ashamed” of the unruly scenes.<\/p>\n
“I’d like to apologise for the rude and mean-spirited behaviour from our American crowd at Bethpage,” said 76-year-old Watson.<\/p>\n
European talisman Rory McIlroy was the prime target from the American galleries, while his wife Erica was hit by a drinks cup flung from one of the stands.<\/p>\n
After sealing victory on Sunday, McIlroy said the level of the personal insults was unacceptable.<\/p>\n
BBC Sport has contacted New York State Police for figures of any arrest and ejections over the weekend.<\/p>\n
“[The behaviour] needs to be talked about and needs to be addressed,” said Donald, who praised police officers for their handling of a febrile situation.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know how you rein it in, the odd people who shout. It is a tricky one. <\/p>\n
“We would love to just play and the US players were great on trying to quieten crowd.<\/p>\n
“Many Americans were coming up to say they how embarrassed they were for some of their fans. It was a small subset and don’t know how you control it.”<\/p>\n
While Watson was gracious on social media, there has not been an official apology from the US team.<\/p>\n
However, Donald thanked US counterpart Keegan Bradley and his players for attempting to ask the crowd to show respect.<\/p>\n
“I think the Americans were acting in the right way,” said Donald. <\/p>\n
“They understand they want the crowd to support them but not to be vitriolic against us.”<\/p>\n
BBC Sport has contacted the PGA of America – which organised the tournament – for a response to Donald and McIlroy’s comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe’s victory came amid torrents of verbal abuse from a New York crowd which was heavily criticised for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-170021","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\/170021","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=170021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}