{"id":181546,"date":"2025-10-06T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/181546\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:40:13","slug":"tom-watson-ashamed-of-rude-american-crowd-at-ryder-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/181546\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Watson \u2018ashamed\u2019 of \u2018rude\u2019 American crowd at Ryder Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   30 Sep 2025, 01:47 Updated: 6d ago         <\/p>\n<p> 30 Sep 2025, 01:47  | Updated: 6d ago <\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Team Europe hold the Ryder Cup trophy after their 15-13 victory following the Sunday singles matches of the 2025 Ryder Cup at Black Course at Bethpage State Park Golf Course\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"757876\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/757876\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Team Europe hold the Ryder Cup trophy after their 15-13 victory following the Sunday singles matches of the 2025 Ryder Cup at Black Course at Bethpage State Park Golf Course.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/license\/2237658084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\nDavid Cannon\/Getty Images<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Eight-time major winner Tom Watson has congratulated Europe on their thrilling Ryder Cup win and said he is \u201cashamed\u201d of the behaviour of the home fans at the Bethpage Black course in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Europe\u2019s 15-13 triumph was marred by incidents involving spectators throughout the three days of action, with Rory McIlroy in particular singled out for abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">McIlroy was frequently put off his tee shots and his wife Erica had beer thrown over her, while an announcer was also stood down for encouraging an abusive chant about McIlroy prior to Saturday\u2019s foursomes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Watson, who won three Ryder Cups as a player in his illustrious career, posted on social media: \u201cI\u2019d like to congratulate @RyderCupEurope on their victory. Your team play for the first few days was sensational.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019d like to congratulate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyderCupEurope?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@RyderCupEurope<\/a> on their victory. Your team play the first few days was sensational.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, I\u2019d like to apologize for the rude and mean-spirited behavior from our American crowd at Bethpage. <\/p>\n<p>As a former player, Captain and as an American, I\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Watson (@TomWatsonPGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomWatsonPGA\/status\/1972670995224834528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cMore importantly, I\u2019d like to apologize for the rude and mean-spirited behavior from our American crowd at Bethpage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cAs a former player, captain and as an American, I am ashamed of what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Meanwhile, winning captain Luke Donald has revealed how US president Donald Trump got involved in the post-match celebrations after McIlroy led his team in a rendition of \u201cAre you watching, Donald Trump?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cWe were in our dressing room after our press conference, just having a moment together with the team,\u201d Donald explained to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cRory was there and he got a text from the president, and he read it out, and we thought for a little bit of banter we\u2019ll send a friendly video of the chant that was going around that Ryder Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Trump replied on Instagram: \u201cYes, I\u2019m watching. Congratulations!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>       <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 Sep 2025, 01:47 Updated: 6d ago 30 Sep 2025, 01:47 | Updated: 6d ago Team Europe hold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-181546","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\/181546","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=181546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}