Farmingdale, NY – Rory Mcilroy came accusing the hill after the 17th hole of Bethpage Black, the wings lying on a fist pump as he screaming towards a group of European fans while they sang and danced on the other side of the ropes.
Mcilroy was returning from the 18th hole, where he and the best friend Shane Lowry had just finished their American opponents in the first match of the fourth session of this Ryder cup. And now he would go back to cheer in the matches left behind him, with energy from the blue flags that filled the score table and the outbreak they would all provide.
These fans were calming it down with the day’s anthem, sung in the Kastra “Zombie” melody:
He is in your heeaaad
In your heeeead
RO-RO, ROO-SORY, ROOO-RY, RY, RY
Mcilroy headed on their way, leaving the top five in the delirious scrap before turning back to his teammates. But then, as he returned, something came flying from the crowd: a half -filled drink, which sailed through the air and ricocheted by Mcilroy’s wife’s hat, Erica, walking next to him.
The whole contingent withdrew to surprise – Erica, Rory, Lowry, Marshals, teammates, coaches’ aides – and Lowry began walking towards the crowd before it was contained by a European employee. It was not clear where the cup had come from or why, whether there was a malicious purpose or if it had come from an excited euro. Be that as it may, the moment passed, the Cup-the Cup escaped unidentified, and the team returned to continue towards the 17th Green, turning their attention into the remaining two matches. But the moment told the story of the day: the joy of the sport and the emotion of a busy environment set against some annoying cases of Fans crossing the line – And, after all, complete dominance by Mcilroy and the road team, who received the last word.
Did the fans pass in line? That was the question that pinging about betaris The basis for much of Thursday afternoon, especially after “Is there a way the US turns this …?” was paved to rest.
There is no way to give a simple answer, so let’s try some. Yes, fans crossed the line. Two lines, to get specific. European captain Luke Donald put them after the round, procedural and personal: First, it is the poor form of screaming in a player when he is in the process of actually hitting his shooting and second, it is bad behavior to shout for a player’s family, especially knowing that the player and his family are there to hear him. Fans made both, and not just one or two fans but a LOT of fans, soft and frustrated by the size of the event and the size of the local team deficit and the fact that there are tens of thousands of fans, but only four groups in the course. So when you are a certain type of fan and finally get a brief appearance of Rory and Co., you will make it count.
But it is also reducing to dismiss the atmosphere of the whole event based on line crucifixists. This is the sport, after all, and the sport really gets good after people start taking care, both players and fans. Care is the whole issue – and we took it in the shovel. There were excellent sports scenes throughout the day, European heroes prompted to high altitudes by American antagonists. They came with The unprecedented number of f-bombsThousands sent the players’ way, before the morning and in, and tens returned. It was above the top. It was a spectacle. And Golf played among all was impressive as hell.
“Look, we knew what we were going to come here,” Lowry said. “It was a very difficult day. Being out with Rory doesn’t make it easier; I think he’s taking it.”
Mcilroy said he was happy to have Lowry on his Saturday afternoon: “He was there for me today. All the loan for this victory today goes to Shane.”
Lowry added this: “It was intense. It was like something I’ve never experienced. But that’s what I live for. That’s it. That’s, how, honestly, the reason I’m getting up in the morning, for such things. That’s what I want to do.”
It’s hard for anyone to hate Tommy Fleetwood or any of the other beloved members of the European team. But Saturday’s atmosphere was so filled with pressure that boiled tensions elsewhere. Afternoon match after Mcilroy/Lowry scored world no. 1 Scottie Scheffler (0-3-0 in the first three sessions) and Megastar Bryson Dechambeau (1-2-0) against Fleetwood and Justin Rose. The Americans came in despair for a victory, but it was the Rose who magically reached his pocket, pouring left and right as he dropped six birds into their first eight holes and built a lead that would prove insurmountable.
But a moment in the 15th Tee showed once again how different is the Ryder Cup than any other golf tour in the world. Rose was lining his own putt of birds when Dechambeau and his kadi, Greg Bodine, approached too much In the rose line for his consent, so he prompted them away.
“He asked him to move. Maybe not as polite as I could have done,” Rose later said.
Rose made his fork. The moments later Dechambeau made a bird’s blow and celebrated in the direction of Rose. Suddenly they were jaw as they walked the next Tee – Dechambeau and Rose, Bodine and Fleetwood’s Caddy, Ian Finnis, even Caddy Ted Scott of Scheffler and, impossible, European assistant Francesco Molinari, who took a shoulder from scott while he was in the middle of the parties involved. Finally, finis-a kind of forces of peace in 6 feet-6-e made it clear that everyone should remove it, and so they did. But he talked about how tense the environment had taken – and how good the golf was inside.
“I felt pretty good, but Justin Rose’s gaze in the Golf course is some of my most proud hours in the Golf course,” Fleetwood said. “I’ve loved it absolutely. So blessed to be with him today.” This was the third determinant ingredient of the day: tension. Incredible golf. And European Brotherhood.
“You know, the crowds have energy and you can use it anyway you want. However, you frame it,” Donald said, offering a perspective on stage.
“There is an incentive, an answer and in the midst of this is how you decide what you want to do with it. I think some people see it motivating. Sometimes the crowd that went to you can be a motivator for some of these players, and I think Rory and Shane probably looked like they were almost enjoying the hard environment there.”
There were real sports moments between the two teams. Each party seemed to appreciate the heroic of their opponent; In the afternoon Golf Channel reported that the euro ended a 34 combined under the same time as the USA team shot 31 under, a premature number of total birds.
Justin Thomas and Cameron Young were players’ players opposite Mcilroy and Lowry in their busy afternoon session. After some holes of unstable disputes, the Americans began to shake the crowd before playing their opponents. This is harder than sounds; How do you slow down a crowd? But they stuck with him for the rest of the match, doing his best to secure a match played under fair terms, if brutal. This made it a particularly harsh loss, however.
“The Ryder Cup is the only event you can have fun and lose,” Thomas said. “It just brings an incredible golf. I would play and go to battle with cam every day of the week. I’m just annoying that we haven’t done it.”
For the last hour of the game, Team Europe members sailed around the closing stretch of Bethpage holes, laughing and hugging and getting into Be, no call of their fans. The whole thing had a festive feeling, as if they would already seal the deal. In justice, they effectively done seals the deal; No Ryder Cup team has ever come down from more than four points and the US team enters Sunday below 7.
But we will get Golf on Sunday, however. We will get more hours of celebrations. And we will get Mcilroy at its center as he sees if he can end a dream season with a victory over Scottie Scheffler. Fans will do what they can to stop it. They can promote it in place. And then it will start two-year reception until we reach the next Ryder cup-and ask ourselves where the line is.
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