Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\nPGA of America president Don Rea claimed the same things happened when Europe hosted the tournament two years ago. But PGA of America chief executive Derek Sprague said the abuse directed at McIlroy and his team-mates “crossed the line”, and he would be apologising.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that people crossed the line last week,\u201d Sprague said. “There\u2019s no place for that at the Ryder Cup, no place for it in the game of golf and we are not happy with what happened last week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t spoken to Rory or Erica. I do plan on sending them an email with my heartfelt apologies because of what occurred.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t wait to reach out to Rory and Erica, and really the entire European team. Rory might have been a target because of how good he is, but the entire European team should not have been subjected to that. I feel badly and I plan on apologising to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
McIlroy claimed that some of golf\u2019s values were not seen during the tournament. He said: \u201cI think golf should be held to a higher standard than what was seen out there this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cGolf teaches you very good life lessons, it teaches you etiquette, it teaches you how to play by the rules, it teaches you how to respect people.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes this week we didn\u2019t see that. So no, this should not be what is acceptable in the Ryder Cup.\u201d While Eddie Pepperell believes that the current Masters champion will now be pondering whether to reduce the amount he plays in the US given the amount of abuse he received over the three days.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the Chipping Forecast podcast, he said: \u201cHow does he feel about the future? Is Rory thinking ‘I can’t wait play golf in America next year – or will I play less?’\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis wife couldn’t wait to go back to Wentworth. And she’s American. I bet she couldn’t wait to get out of there. In my mind Rory would be within his rights to say that he could do without America for a while.<\/p>\n
\u201cRory is a big star and he is going to want to play more in Europe – and globally – so he doesn’t have to deal with some of that s***.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erica, it is claimed, “can’t wait” to get out of her home country and move into one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[57219,5904,18916,2623,6547,77244,101,56,81892,54,55],"class_list":["post-185441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-erica-stoll","tag-golf","tag-golf-section","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-ryder-cup","tag-ryder-cup-abuse","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-uk-relocation","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185441","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=185441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}