{"id":200650,"date":"2025-10-04T01:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/200650\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T01:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:49:09","slug":"social-media-is-killing-the-pga-of-america-president-for-his-remarks-on-fan-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/200650\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media is Killing the PGA of America President for His Remarks on Fan Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don Rea, the PGA of America president, is hearing it from social media after his remarks on fan behavior at Bethpage Black during the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n<p>During Day 2 of the Ryder Cup, Rory McIlroy was abused by the crowd at Bethpage Black. He was called homophobic slurs and had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skratch.golf\/news\/news\/rory-mcilroy-ryder-cup-2025-fan-throws-beer-wife-bethpage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:beer thrown at him and his wife, Erica;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">beer thrown at him and his wife, Erica<\/a>, after winning his afternoon match alongside Shane Lowry.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t every fan on Long Island, but the one percent was loud, disgusting, and embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>Don Rea, the PGA of America president, was asked about the fan behavior, and to say his response was utterly disappointing would be a huge understatement. He took zero accountability and responsibility, and said he hadn\u2019t heard much abuse of McIlroy. Here\u2019s his full comment:<\/p>\n<p>Once this video started to make its rounds on Twitter on Tuesday, it didn\u2019t take long for fans everywhere to voice their displeasure.<\/p>\n<p>When the head of the organization sounds this way, it\u2019s no surprise that the fans behaved the way they did. Something has to change\u2014fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don Rea, the PGA of America president, is hearing it from social media after his remarks on fan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[72968,115531,427,105062,6082,99],"class_list":["post-200650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-bethpage-black","tag-fan-behavior","tag-golf","tag-pga-of-america","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200650","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=200650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}