{"id":724223,"date":"2026-06-25T01:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724223\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T01:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:53:37","slug":"long-island-fans-have-a-spicy-message-for-golf-channel-analyst-who-called-local-fans-stain-on-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724223\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Island fans have a spicy message for Golf Channel analyst who called local fans ‘stain on the game’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stick a South Fork in this guy \u2014 he\u2019s done!<\/p>\n

Long Islanders have a message for a Golf Channel commentator who trashed local fans as a \u201cstain on the game\u201d \u2014 saying he should book a one-way ticket back to the mainland on the Hampton Jitney.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe he should never come back here again,\u201d said resident Holly Burton, whose son is an avid golfer. \u201cIf you can\u2019t handle the heat in the kitchen, get out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Golf Channel analyst Eamon Lynch\u2019s snide remark that local golf fans<\/a> \u201cdo not deserve a major championship\u201d irked more islanders than an LIE driver with no passengers hogging the HOV lane during the morning commute.<\/p>\n

\u201cLong Island golf fans are a stain on the game of golf,\u201d Golf Channel commentator Eamon Lynch said Monday. Eamon Lynch \/ X<\/p>\n

The talking head, who is from Ireland, tore into Long Island fans Monday after Wyndham Clark\u2019s wire-to-wire US Open victory at Shinnecock Hills \u2014 blasting fans for their ceaseless heckling and calling for the PGA to yank Bethpage Black\u2019s 2033 PGA Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cLong Island golf fans are a stain on the game of golf,\u201d Lynch said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we saw at Bethpage, it\u2019s what we see every single time we go to Long Island.\u201d<\/p>\n

But locals like Burton said the golf snob should deal with it \u2014 because locals are not gonna fore-get the slight.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just the competitive nature in New Yorkers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Others used some colorful, F-bomb-filled language to describe Lynch, who picked on Long Islanders and made sure to say his comments were not reflective of other golf fans in New York, including the northern suburbs of Westchester.<\/p>\n

\u201cLong Islanders are passionate \u2014 whether for good or bad,\u201d avid golfer Carlos Cruz said, adding the TV analyst had no right to \u201ctalk s\u2013t\u201d about Long Island.<\/p>\n

Islanders said the golf snob should get over \u2014 because they are not gonna fore-get the slight. Sports Illustrated via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Long Island fans were kicked out of Shinnecock Hills on Sunday for their brutal heckling of Wyndham Clark. Sports Illustrated via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The on-air tirade came after fans were kicked out of Shinnecock Hills on Sunday for their brutal heckling of Clark,\u00a0shouting at him, \u201cdon\u2019t choke Wyndham\u201d\u00a0<\/a>and \u201cget in the bunker\u201d during his title-clinching final round.<\/p>\n

Some locals proudly owned the heckling and spiciness and said Lynch should remember who the Suffolk he is dealing with.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take our golf very seriously and tend to be a more obnoxious crowd,\u201d Holbrook resident and golf fan Connor Sullivan acknowledged, but said it\u2019s what comes with the territory and makes Long Island\u2019s courses some of the hardest in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take our golf very seriously,\u201d said Long Island resident and fan Connor Sullivan. Courtesy of Connor Sullivan<\/p>\n

Terrence Reid, a Long Island golfer who said the issue is deeper than just Long Islanders, after hitting a hole-in-one. Courtesy of Terrence Reid<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I saw he said that Long Island fans are the worst, I hate to admit it, but I kind of agree,\u201d 23-year-old Daniel said outside Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods in Patchogue on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

But Terrence Reid, who golfs regularly, said a lack of decorum and turning the sport into a real life \u201cHappy Gilmore\u201d goes well past the borders of Nassau and Suffolk.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessarily a Long Island thing,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe that this social media era with these young kids wanting to come out here and film everything and don\u2019t know the etiquette of the golf game, that\u2019s what\u2019s ruining golf.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stick a South Fork in this guy \u2014 he\u2019s done! Long Islanders have a message for a Golf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[72968,427,2239,5871,40359,59862,99,40358,23234],"class_list":["post-724223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-bethpage-black","tag-golf","tag-long-island","tag-metro","tag-nassau-county","tag-reactions","tag-sports","tag-suffolk-county","tag-us-open-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724223","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=724223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}