If there is a single moment that epitomized the heck valued by R by American fans in Ryder Cup in Bethpage Black Last week, it came early Saturday morning from the first TeE, where the comedian and podcaster Heather McMahan He was playing the role of the host and the start of the party. Among her tasks were to engage with fans at Grandstand Hulking after 1 and Green Green, leading cheers – or trying – and, as she said, generally “taking everyone riding”.
In the advantage of the fourth match of the morning, McMahan’s cheers included encouragement for Bryson dechambeauwho was preparing to get Tee with his partner, Scottie Scheffler, in their match against Rory Mcilroy and Tommy Fleetwood.
“Dee-Sham-Hark!” McMahan began crossing her microphone. “Dee-Sham-Hark!”
The crowd joined: “Dee-sham-bow! Dee-sham-bow!”
After some refrains, a group of fans sank by Dechambeau cheering with one of them: “F – you, Rory! F – you, Rory!”
McMahan had not started mocking, but she participated, bark once in her germ: “F – you, Rory!”
like Moment It began to make rounds on social media, it was a difficult look for both McMahan and for the organizers of the event, the PGA of America, which had little choice, but to facilitate McMahan from its tasks. On Saturday evening, the association issued a 26 -word statement: “Heather McMahan lasted a pardon Rory Mcllroy and Ryder Cup Europe and left the Ryder Cup first reception.”
McMahan himself made no public comment on the incident. This changed Wednesday afternoon when, in The last episode For her “absolutely not not” podcast, she detailed her account for what she went down.
McMahon said that the first energy of the Friday Friday-the first-match-match-was relatively softened as she and her team were still calibrating the MICs and generally feeling better to work on the crowds.
“And then came Saturday,” she said. “The word I got from the team was that we have to make everyone riding. The America team is coming out. We have to be so out of control, so drowning in cheers and calls and make everyone really pump the team and get energy by going.”
As fans started registering only after 5am, McMahon said she started doing “crowd work” – “Where are you from?” We have to get the energy up. “
As an elevated comic, McMahan has experience in entertaining big crowds; She played with stars in comedy specialties on Netflix and Hulu and also had a role in the 2021 Romantic Comedy “Love Hard”. But she said her Ryder Cup Lalegly’s reception work did not call for those skills groups that captured her from the guards.
“It was frustrating because I thought the work I was hired to do was not really what ended to be in the sense of all we were trying to understand it together as a team,” she said. “I thought I would eventually do the most famous interviews after Celeb appeared for the first first. I thought at one point I thought it would be broadcast. That didn’t happen. And then I was like, okay, so I’m just a kind like a glorified fan.”
McMahon tried to direct some calls with the names of American players, but those efforts, she said, did not go well. “We’re just getting tired,” she said. “These boys don’t want anything to do with this. … the crowd started to be really shocked, really fast. And I don’t want to talk about everyone in the crowd. There were so many wonderful people there were lovely. vibe ”.
And then came her cheering dechambeau, who moved to the call out of the mcilroy color, which led to the McMahon gaffe.
“I made the absolute horrible mistake by telling them again once,” she said. “If you watch the video. I’m kind of how to laugh at myself. Also, as a question mark, like ‘f – you, Rory?” “
She added: “I will take full responsibility and honestly apologize from Rory Team Europe to say that. It was so stupid for me. I didn’t start the call. I was like that narrative to get there.”
After the Mcilroy call, McMahon said she felt a shift of energy from fans, from “fun and funny” to “toxic type”, and that she felt overwhelmed having to control “4,000 dudes at 5am, screaming Crazy s -“. She said at that moment she told the producer and her husband, Jeff Daniels, that it would be best if she would withdraw from the procedures and let the DJ take over. She also said that a representative tour of the DP World Tournament approached her and said the leadership of negative calls against European players was unacceptable, a feeling she agreed with.
She said shortly after her mistake, she contacted the DP World Tournament to apologize to both Mcilroy and for the European team. She thought she resolved the incident until she woke up on Sunday morning to find a stream of media coverage of a certain Empire Ryder Cup – some of which, she said, described it inaccurately that she had begun the call. “Really was blown up by proportion,” she said. “I just want to clear the air that it would never be my intention to be malicious to be heavy to put that kind of energy there too.”
She added: “You are telling me that I had so much power over a group of men at a sports event at 5am, when I closed the call, as soon as the words came out of my mouth, and I was like, what we were doing here, and laughing? To pull the line and be like, hey, it makes no sense to me.”
On Sunday, McMahon said she and her husband were transported to the airport to an official Trand Cup courtesy vehicle with the Ryder Cup logos, whose irony did not lose in its comic sensitivity.
“Jeff and I had to laugh about it,” McMahon said. “We were like, this is crazy. I want to say, listen, I have had a media lesson. I learned a lesson in communications. I learned a lesson to move forward with just being in need of specific parameters. I need to know exactly what is required of me.”
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