Farmingdale, NY – after a Saturday In the 45th Cup of Ryder-When Jingoistic, Mich Ultra-Fueled Tryhards and even the event Official Emcee of 1st Rory Mcilroy returned it and other members of the European team in their personal bags of VIBE work felt softer and softer at the beginning of Sunday matches.
Part of this may have been due to the heat of energy in a warm, mainly afternoon in Bethpage Black when temperatures crawled in the 1980s, but most of it was due to stunning Europe with seven -point Europe had opened in four -ball four -ball games, which had the same effect on the event that a Pinprick would make.
However, the obese lady was not singing yet, even if the blue supporters and gold were. On Sunday, Mcilroy landed in the Marquee period, in the fourth of the 12 matches of a single against Scottie Scheffler. World no. 1 (that would be Scheffler) vs World no. 2. Four diplomas against five. Future Famier VS Hall Future Hall of Fame. Dream items, even against the backdrop of what was being shaped for being a European road. Fanso fans who needed help to grow in 1 (most not) were assisted by the heart pumping anthem “Mr. BrightSide”, which blossomed through the speakers while Mcilroy and Scheffler read to hit their opening explosions.
Mcilroy took the early superiority with a bird in the 2nd and was still 1-up after players hit their balls in par-4 4. While Mcilroy exited the Tee box, European fans leaving the right rope line began to fix it with the well-known “zombies” melody of McIlroy. “He’s on your heaaaad / he is in your heaaad / roaaar-uh-ee, roaaar-u-ee …”
When the song – a property known this week – withdrew, one of the discoverers shouted, “Rory, we have your back!”
On the other side of the road, inside the rope line, Mcilroy’s manager, Sean O’Flahety, was strolling with some known.
One of them with an Irish accent jokingly said, “Have you paid them to say that, Sean?”
O’Flahererty laughed and said, “Ah, it’s brilliant.”
Exchange spoke The deep taxing week of taxes that Mcilroy had here in Bethpage Black. Ryder cups are never easy on the road team-and especially on the stars of the road teams-but the amount of abuse of the abuse that Mcilroy endured was not just unfortunate, it was harsh. “F – you, Rory!” It was a common blockage. Other fans took shots in his big heart attacks, his height, and even his wife; Shane Lowry said Vitriol Erica Mcilroy heard It was “stunning”.
Mcilroy ignored many of the drugs, but not everyone, sometimes looking at hecklers, telling them to close or bring them out of property, as they did with a breaker in the 10th hole on Sunday. “This should not be what is acceptable in the Ryder Cup,” Mcilroy said Sunday evening. “We will make sure to tell our fans in Ireland in 2027 that what happened here this week is not acceptable. I think if I were American, I would be upset that people – I didn’t hear a lot of screams for Scottie today, but I heard a lot of shouts against me.”
Matchdo drew a crowd on Sunday, but the Mcllroy-Scheffler collision was the main event. After the operation from within the ropes were a team-aa-tour tournament of team representatives, player family members, reporters and even some celebrities in the couple in Snl cast Colin jost and Marcello Hernández, who had previously served as part of NBC television coverage; Comedian Nate Bartagze also made a brief summary. In the 6th hole, Jost’s wife and European captain Luke Donald Diane discussed Justin Rose’s scary game in his four-ball Saturday. “You never know who will get hot,” said Diane, who has seen her husband captain two teams Ryder Cup and play in four others.
As the match progressed, so did heck. While Mcilroy size of a short stroke in 7, a fan reminded Mcilroy for a similar short blow he had lost in the 72nd hole in the US Open 2024 in Pinehurst. In the next hole, a par-3 set in a natural amphitheater, a fan shouted “F-you, Rory!” While Mcilroy opened through the green. Mcilroy’s father, Gerry, who was sitting Greenside could shake his head. While Rory’s long Birdie tried to scatter the hole, someone shouted, “Get in the water!”
Rory Mcilroy celebrating Europe’s 15-13 victory.
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Mcilroy didn’t His best materials (nor Scheffler), but he was not ready to capitulate to the hated fans. Throughout the week, he would find a way to fight through resistance. On Friday morning, he and Tommy Fleetwood joined for five birds and gathered Collin Morikawa and Harris English, 5 and 4. That afternoon, in four balls, he and Shane Lowry excavated half a point against Sam Burns and Patrick Cantlay. On Saturday four, he and Fleetwood had a match with their Friday opponents and gathered another point. Friday afternoon, Mcilroy joined Lowry for four balls and they beat Justin Thomas and The hottest US playerCameron Young, 2 up.
“We talk about all the people who came before us who paved the way for us,” Luke Donald said on Sunday evening in the wake of Europe’s 15-13 victory. “Now future generations will talk about this team tonight and what they did and as they were able to overcome one of the most difficult environments in the whole sport.
As Donald spoke, Mcilroy stood the tears and rubbed his eyes. He was emotional, grateful and exhausted.
This fatigue showed Sunday in a match that Mcilroy called “a pillow war”. It didn’t seem like one, anyway. While Mcilroy and Scheffler crossed the road that biskakes the black course to play the last four holes, the bold crowds resembled the scenes from Woodstock, minus peace and love. In thesis at 18, where Mcilroy was 1 down, he finally came out of the steam, blocking his intention shot in a 50 yard right bunker of the right road – and, with it, every real chance to make a 3 to force a tie.
Scheffler’s 1-up victory continued alive the little US hopes to attract a historic comeback, as his three teammates had already placed 2.5 points on the board and eight behind him were keeping things interesting. While Mcilroy and Scheffler ended their match, Ben Crenshaw, who captured the US Miracle-Aat-Brocline team in 1999, was looking at the back of Green. On Saturday evening, did he feelingAs he did 26 years ago, that the US team could attract unimaginable Sunday?
“I was forced to be honest, I really didn’t,” Crenshaw told me. “The difference was so big. But you never know about golf. Golf is so incorrect, and they played their hearts today. But Europe played some of the biggest golf ever played. On Saturday, it’s like making every hole bird.”
In the face of the fire galleries, Mcilroy made or contributed to 10 of those birds, helping to position his team to accomplish something that, he said, “everyone thought they were impossible to do-not just win in America, but win here in New York.”
Both Mcilroy and his teammates He addressed the media on Sunday evening in a tent near one of the black course greens, an intruder without a credential tried to push his way into a press conference. He was wearing a straw hat and a long -sleeved polo brand with the American flag. He quickly withdrawn, but for Mcilroy the interruption served as a book suitable for his wild week.
Immediately after the unwanted guest departed, Mcilroy was asked about another place of inconsistency: the moment, in his Saturday match with four balls when he responded to a F-You Heckle filling his approach. How satisfactory this was, a reporter asked.
Mcilroy did not miss a beat.
He bowed to his microbe and said, “Very enjoyable.”
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