{"id":144352,"date":"2025-09-09T15:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/144352\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:25:09","slug":"is-rory-mcilroy-on-usa-ryder-cup-fan-shirts-it-looks-a-little-similar-golfer-tells-sky-sports-golf-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/144352\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Rory McIlroy on USA Ryder Cup fan shirts? &#8216;It looks a little similar!&#8217; &#8211; golfer tells Sky Sports | Golf News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy has told Sky Sports  a silhouetted golfer\u00a0emblazoned on a USA Ryder Cup shirt for sale &#8220;looks a little similar&#8221; to himself.<\/p>\n<p>A report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/golf\/2025\/09\/09\/usa-ryder-cup-rory-mcilroy-ralph-lauren-t-shirt-blunder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a> on Tuesday revealed the potential blunder, with the golfer on the shirt bearing a striking resemblance to McIlroy&#8217;s signature high-finish post-swing pose with a driver, complete with the words &#8220;USA Ryder Cup 2025&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The shirt, a Ralph Lauren product, remains for sale at a price of $65.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skysports-usa-ryder-cup-mcilory_7015240.jpg\"   alt=\"Ryder Cup\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        An official USA Ryder Cup shirt for sale appears to include a silhouette of Team Europe golfer McIlroy (Credit: Official US Ryder Cup shop\/Ralph Lauren)<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Sky Sports&#8217; Jamie Weir ahead of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, live on Sky Sports this week, the Northern Irishman admitted it may well be him.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to confirm or deny whether it was his silhouette, McIlroy said: &#8220;It looks more like Adam Scott than me but yeah, it looks a little similar, I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weir followed up by asking: &#8220;There&#8217;s going to be loads of American fans wearing McIlroy&#8217;s silhouette on their top?&#8221;, to which an assumed McIlroy replied: &#8220;That&#8217;s okay. That&#8217;s fine. I won&#8217;t mind that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skysports-mcilroy-golf_7015244.jpg\"   alt=\"Mcilroy\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Is this the pose and picture used of McIlroy on a USA Ryder Cup shirt? (Credit: PGA)<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy: Europe remain Ryder Cup underdogs for challenge in USA<\/p>\n<p>McIlory and the rest of his Team Europe team-mates will look to defend their crown at Bethpage Black from September 26-28, live on Sky Sports. <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Luke Donald&#8217;s charges secured a sensational 16.5\/11.5 victory at the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Italy two years ago, and now search for their first Ryder Cup victory in the USA since the &#8216;miracle of Medinah&#8217; in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>For McIlroy, Europe remain underdogs, saying: &#8220;Any time an away Ryder Cup comes to town, I do think we&#8217;re still underdogs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a really tall task, but not an insurmountable one. I think there is an opportunity there, but we have to get the planning right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skysports-irish-open-d4-irish-open_7013891.jpg\" alt=\"IRISH OPEN DAY FOUR\"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-poster\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              Highlights as McIlroy eagled the 18th hole in regulation play before edging out Joakim Lagergren in a play-off at The K Club to win the Irish Open<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to make sure we&#8217;re all ready for what lies ahead, but I think Luke Donald&#8217;s got everything under control and I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s thought of every single scenario, so I think we&#8217;re good in that department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last week was a busy week, this week&#8217;s a busy week. Obviously, the two days of the practice trip are going to be busy, but from Wednesday to Sunday next week is a time to have a bit of fun, recharge the batteries, but then also keep your game ticking over and make sure that you&#8217;re doing the right [things] and that you&#8217;re sharp going into Bethpage.<\/p>\n<p>The practice trip will be important for a lot of different reasons for us as a team, but I also think the rest of that week is going to be important where we all do what we need to do. We&#8217;re all individual sports people, we all have our different routines, so whatever we need to do to be 100 per cent ready, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great to have all the lads here this week, apart from Sepp [Straka], but Sepp will join us on the practice trip and it&#8217;ll be great to get us all together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skysports-rory-mcilroy-paul-mcginley_7013902.jpg\" alt=\"MCILROY MCGINLEY IRISH OPEN\"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-poster\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              Speaking after McIlroy&#8217;s win at the the Irish Open, former Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley suggested that the manner of the win could help inspire Team Europe<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s amazing it&#8217;s pretty much the same team of 12 as well. Obviously, you sub in Rasmus [H\u00f8jgaard] for Nicolai [H\u00f8jgaard] this time, but it is. Since Rome two years ago, a lot has happened in terms of golf and people playing elsewhere, so I think just to get us all together again and to build up that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The majority of us see each other a lot, but then there&#8217;s a few people we don&#8217;t see as much, so I think just getting us all back together and sort of building that up again is going to be really, really important.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;ll be easy once we all get together. It&#8217;s like nothing&#8217;s ever really changed, so I&#8217;m excited for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the BMW PGA Championship, at Wentworth, live on Sky Sports Golf from 8.30am on Thursday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/membership\/watch-sky-sports?DCMP=ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You can also stream golf and more sport without a contract through NOW.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy has told Sky Sports a silhouetted golfer\u00a0emblazoned on a USA Ryder Cup shirt for sale &#8220;looks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-144352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}