The atmosphere in the Championship Alfred Dunhill Links of this week in Scotland will be quite different from it European Ryder Cups just occupied in Bethpage Black.
Four members of Team Europe – Tyrrell Hatton, Tommy Fleetwood, Matt Fitzpatrick and Robert Macintyre – will remove it on the DP world tour this week, but the golf world does not seem to turn the site alone. Especially when it comes to their historic victory and the New York crowd that ruthlessly rejected insults to European players and families for three days.
Rory Mcilroy, Who got the worstcalled “unacceptable” behavior. Shane Lowry said the wife of mcilroy verbal abuse, Erica It was “stunning”. Saturday, US Captain Keegan Bradley said Some fans crossed the lineBut he also did not see the environment different from the one that the Americans faced in Rome in 2023.
“I thought the fans were passionate,” Bradley told fans on Saturday. “I mean, their team at home is being poorly beaten. They are passionate fans. I was not in Rome, but I have heard many stories that Rome was also quite violent.”
In an interview with the BBC on Sunday Ryder, PGA President Don Rea also suggested that the crowd’s abuse was similar to what happened in Marco Simone.
“I haven’t heard some of them – I’m sure it happened,” Rea said when asked about the stream of verbal abuse thrown at Mcilroy on Saturday. “It happened when we were in Rome on the other hand and Rory understands … Such things will happen and I don’t know what was said. But all I know is that golf is the engine of good.”
Hatton, who was also a member of the European winning team Ryder Cup in Rome, again postponed the claim that both sides have the same problem.
“Personally, I don’t think they were close,” Hatton said Wednesday in Scotland. “Surely, with what I heard last week, I don’t think Rome comes somewhere close to it. … I don’t know what else to add to this. I think they are far enough to be honest.”
Fitzpatrick, whose parents did not travel to the Ryder Cup due to the expected abuse of the crowd, did not appreciate what was thrown at US decision makers.
“I saw the interview with the PGA boy discussing how the same thing was in Rome,” Fitzpatrick said. “It is very offensive to the European fans that he said this, indeed.”
Fleetwood, who went 4-1-0 to Ryder Cup, did not want to paint all American golf fans with a wide brush. Bad actors in Bethpage crossed the line between the support of the local team and the attack of European players and their families, but was not a representative of everyone who came out to see the biennial event.
“There is a big difference between a hostile environment and personal comments,” Fleetwood said. “Again, I think we were all prepared for him. Of all the conversations he has had, it has nothing to do with all American fans or the crowd. So I don’t think we should be using it as a whole. I have so many friends who are Americans and who were in Ryder Cup, people close to me, saying, I have to support my team. Go to a comment, saying that a comment can be commenter.
“As I say, how many people were there – 50,000 people, 60,000 people? You can’t do it all to everyone because most don’t do it. I have no hard feelings for it.”
Derek Sprague, CEO of America’s PGA, condemned the behavior In an interview with Golf Channel And he said he planned to apologize to the whole team of Europe.
“And I can’t wait to reach Rory and Erica and really, honestly, the whole European team,” the Golf Channel’s Sprague Hoggard told the Golf Hoggard. “He may have been a target because of how good he is, but the whole European team should not have been subject to it. And because of that, I feel bad and I plan to apologize to them.”
As for the danger he faced in New York, Hatton knows he did not get the worst. However, he hopes that when the Ryder Cup goes to Adare Manor in 2027, the crowd will choose to celebrate their team’s achievements instead of abusing the opponent.
“To be honest, I think some boys in the team had much worse than others,” Hatton said. “For me personally, yes, there was a lot of insults perhaps about height or hair line or weight, which – some of which I said much to myself anyway, so it was nothing new.
“If it were my choice, and obviously what I say would not really affect how people behave, but I really don’t think insults are the way forward,” Hatton said when asked about the expected atmosphere in 2027. “I would prefer to be a respectful atmosphere; players or things like them. ”;
As for this week in Dunhill, Ryder Cup champions will welcome the pace change after a week in Bethpage.
“The atmosphere will be in the world,” Hatton said. “Last week was pretty strong. This week will feel somewhat quieter, but in a way, also waiting for that.”
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