It\u2019s been three months, but the fallout over the Ryder Cup\u2019s raucous atmosphere continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The New York crowd at Bethpage Black was verbally abusive toward the Europeans, and the flames were fueled in the week after with PGA of America president Don Rea downplaying the vulgarity, saying<\/a>, \u201cWell, you\u2019ve got 50,000 people here that are really excited and, heck, you could go to a youth soccer game and get some people who say the wrong things.\u201d<\/p>\n European captain Luke Donald recently spoke to The Times of London<\/a> and criticized Rea\u2019s handling of the fan behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sign Up Now. SI Golf Newsletters. Sports Illustrated\u2019s Free Golf Newsletters. dark<\/p>\n \u201cThat was disappointing because anyone who was in Rome and New York knew it was completely different,\u201d Donald said. \u201cSinging \u2018Hats off to your bank account\u2019 [as European fans did in Rome] is slightly different to \u2018F— your five-year-old\u2019 or whatever it was, and this wasn\u2019t just one or two guys, it was hundreds, maybe thousands.\u201d<\/p>\n Some fans shouted homophobic slurs and constant profanities, causing European players to back off shots. At one point, Shane Lowry had to be restrained from entering the gallery in anger, and Rory McIlroy\u2019s wife had a beer thrown on her<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n