American fans in the 2021 Ryder Cup on Whistling Straits.
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A lot of paint is spilled College Golf that bitter Rory Mcilroy A week ago, his friend’s phone immediately withdrew and his entrance to the base ended. And while it can feel like a life before in Rory years because man Creates titles wherever he stepThis seemed to wake up all week.
On Thursday, immediately after his 18th hit of the hole, a fan shouting “Turn me my phone” Quite loudly caught by MIC in Tee box. Or loud enough to hear Mcilroy. Then on Sunday, while extending the most fun tournament this season, it happened again.
As Mcilroy walked the path from 17 on the island of Green, another spectator shouted for the masters of 2011 just as he walked near. Mcilroy did not react, but he was absolutely close to hearing it. Security immediately removed the spectator from the area, probably ending his golf view afternoon, and Mcilroy made his money.
All of this feels quite harmless when writing in a single paragraph – or when jokes receives some thorns from the crowd – but there is a simple question to ask these thresholds:
Why do you do it?
We have reached an interesting time in Pro Golf, where are the players and fans supposed Being closer than ever, yet moments like these explode. To look at a blind eye to them is to admit that they can continue, without great work. Among the Full Swing, Podcast appearances and YouTube golf races, fans are expected to learn WHO Pro Golfists are better than ever before. After all, the new and most important tournament of the tournament is called Fan Forward, created to renew the action in any way that can push the fans forward, as close as they can, immediately to the rope lines both literally and figuratively. Is it a fair game to shout at Rory for the most worrying moment of his career, especially when you know he will hear you?
It is not a matter of the will that will happen or will not – by eliminating all bad apples (or drunk) from a group of 30,000 is impossible – there are more for the frequency. And the tour business initiatives are forced to raise it.
There is a largely invisible code of esteem in the fans of the entrance they get when walking through the gates of the tour – a promise that you will not be a lighter and you will play loud music in the library. Tickets are expressed expressly various basics for removal, one of which is “making comments or other inappropriate gestures, or other inappropriate gestures”. Another is “verbal or physical harassment of players, volunteers, officials or spectators”. I realized. But that honor code often comes out of the window when the bank accounts of clients are included, and through the other side of his mouth, PGA Tour is screaming, Bet, bet, bet, bet.
Golf represents one of the biggest and most constant opportunities of sports gambling, but goes where other sports cannot. There is no noise of Patrick Mahomes when he throws his third touch. But you can bet on Jordan Spieth to make the first, position strategically in the next Tee box to congratulate him, and you can easily get his attention. (Surely, you would not want Spieth to hear that information at all.) The network of this approach is a more frequent offender-unhappy typhoos who take verbal acts when their precious bet does not hit-worse, before the bet is placed, screaming to influence the game. (This happened best to Max Homa and Chris Kirk in the BMW 2023 championship))
Is it that Rickie Fowler faced a few weeks ago in Cognizant Classic – an unfair player? – When Fowler’s lost blow inspired a despised fan to scream about it?
A few seconds later, Fowler ended with, “You know, you’re better not to say anything.”
At risk of appearing more than they are-not true? In a world where an elite golf player lacks a 30-foot for the fourth time that day, should we shout for them? We can all use a refreshing what Bestie Thumper i Bambi said again in 1942: If you can’t say something beautiful, don’t even say anything.
Rory Mcilroy leaves in front of a row of fans during the player championship.
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Anyone who participates in the player championship will know that there is no epidemic of unruly fans passing through the events of the tournament. But an ominous idea is coming. As announced at the Jay Monahan pre-Turne’s press conference, the tournament is Set to release the pace of game statistics This will help us understand the fastest and slowest players. On the one hand, it will be a Ludwig Aberg championship, widely regarded as one of the fastest Elite players. On the other hand, it will lead to the public shame of slower players, an element that many consider The excitation that works. Perhaps this is the necessary golf shares at the highest level. You will probably not hear any reaction from me in the tournament taking his pace seriously. But how reliable are the fans to be with this information? How will Golf’s most beloved fans Tom Kim treat – who has agreed to be slow and struggling with “mental obstacles” – when (and if!) Kim is exposed as part of the glacier class? Perhaps most importantly, how will they go to do it after six beers? Or six beers and two props props?
Some complicated elements continue on this issue and this pro -golf era. First, the perpetrator is anonymous. When offensive spectators are observed, often the worst thing that happens to them is for them to return to the bushes Faster than Homer SimpsonPerhaps they have been accompanied by properties and are required to get their concerns elsewhere. While the tournaments clearly take security seriously, and the players and velvets are given the final power of removal, are the benefits that must answer the questions about their side of an interaction they did not ask. In the case of the original Mcilroy Chirper, an elite amateur at the University of Texas, she led to a very embarrassing week for a 20-year-old, but maybe that is okay. The first thing that prevents people from violating the rules is to understand the consequences.
While this will hit hard as a pro-Player column, the front fan initiative was born of a chaotic era, where players have made themselves less relays, more of an elite class, easier to handle differently. Do not look farther than Collin Morikawa’s rebuke to Paul McGinley, who suggested that this Tour era was determined by greed, and may not reflect well in history. They are, without question, paying more money for their services than any previous era in the sport. But that made Morikawa double in his belief that he “owes no one”. Mostly from him, Morikawa took a Sunday’s action, made it a Tuesday story, then doubled and made it a Friday story. Could not have benefited from his reputation. Note those words as a reaction that begins to define a reputation. ask Bryson dechambeau for this. Or Zach Johnson.) Monday’s Monday’s victory left the wild nature of how his week began, but we can also talk about his reaction. The first step not to be fooled is not to react too much to quenching a fan during a practical round.
Finally, we are only six months away from the Ryder Cup, an event that suggests cheering for one side is sometimes achieved best by cheering ANTI the other. Toothpaste left the tube in rooting to lose Long ago, but where is the line drawing in the decor? Is good press in the back of a ticket that costs $ 750?
Ah, it’s right. Many levers of this sport are withdrawing to imitate other sports, their epic income and their arenas where everything goes. If Pro Players Pro want to be paid as a quarterback, and if the tournament (or other golf organs) wants his biggest events to rival the fanaticism of a Grand Prix F1, the door is permanently left, waiting for the small minority of fans to build some liquid courage and start it.
