Pharmingdale, NY – as with all things in Ryder Cup, it began before dawn.
Thousands of people had squeezed in the Grandstand 1 in Bethpage Black and had become the subject of some forced friendship by Emcee, hoping to guide a De-cham-beau Call for the step-step beating of the “We’ll Shake You” Step-Step “.
It was very complicated for 6:30 am, and the crowd quickly traversed Emcee quietly. And then, as they would do for most of the next 12 hours, they worked their three favorite words in a student section call.
“F -K you Rory!”
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“F -K you Rory!”
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Never in the history of golf has been a single player who is upset as Mcilroy was during Saturday’s Ryder Cup sessions. It was as if, in the face of an ever -increasing deficit of America that the Long Island crowd decided to take things into its own hands. Whenever Mcilroy and Shane Lowry went to an afternoon top – during the most intense match of the week – they were ruthless. Whenever mcilroy shakes his ball up, f – k youS arrived from every direction.
And did Mcilroy follow the fire? Undoubtedly. He predicted only a month ago that the tensions were sure to boil, and perhaps (if not likely) he would include it. Then he came out and won his first two matches and went so far as to seem to roll a middle finger for certain fans on Friday afternoon. (Lowry also did.) When they shouted “f -k you, Rory” before his morning match four, he brought both hands to his mouth and exploded to them a gentle kiss.
This only guaranteed that Saturday afternoon would deteriorate, and this did it absolutely. The US crowd had seen almost nothing to cheer ABOUT So decided to almost exclusively cheer ANTIA trend that always tends to support her ugly head in this event.
Some holes in his Fourball match against Justin Thomas and Cameron Young, Mcilroy prayed with the judge to see what he could do for outage coming from outside the ropes. The problem was not cute and was not annoying. It was the time of these barbarians, which continued to arrive in moments right ago – or, worse, only subsequently – Mcilroy had begun his back.
It was in the middle of the ninth front-again Lowry had gone Eagle-Birdie-Birdie to extend a 2-up lead-the organizers of the event doubled the amount of New York state troops after this match, ordering them to stay guard in each Tee box and about each green. But that was part of the matter. With about 50,000 fans present, many of which pays a small asset to their Ryder Cup Day, and only 16 players players on the course at a time, just don’t have much room to move. After a match from the hole to the hole was impossible. Turned the course into something of a haunted mansion, where each hole had new ghouls and goblins alone Sight For hours to get their fears inside.
Such a fan, staying just 10 SOMETHING While Mcilroy addressed his ball about 20 meters away. The message was not clear, but it was clear. Standing on his way was an attentive Lowry who, similar to Mcilroy’s Caddy Harry Diamond, had begun to control his crowd. Despite a penalty with a strike that the signs of the event promised, security was doing so a little-and fans were shouting so many-how Lowry and Diamond were regularly scanning for any fan crossing the line. When the 10th abuser was bark, Lowry uploaded a few steps in his direction, just to be held out of his veil. They called for security, emphasized the perpetrator – “I didn’t say anything,” said the teen with a white hat and red face – and Lowry even doubled again to make sure they got the right person.
You can call Lowry an attack dog, body guard, big brother, whatever. He said it was just himself. But he played this protective role for Mcilroy in the last cup, too, when Joe Lacava and Mcilroy had their 18th hole dustAnd when Mcilroy brought his rage to Jim Mackay in the parking lot. All ryder cups run tense – that wasn’t different. It was just promised in the lead that he could take this evil, so Saturday felt almost like a forced prophecy, given that it was only Wednesday when Collin Morikawa said he hoped “Absolute chaos”.
Maybe he is in the camp of, That’s just the Ryder Cup. He wouldn’t be alone. But for many of those who followed the extension of this match, it left a sour taste. Like Thomas Levet, one of the radio broadcasters walking inside the ropes, who even played in a Ryder cup himself. (The 2004 edition, for Europe, accidentally the last team to absolutely obtain Americans on their ground at home.) His mind went directly to the worst parts of Hazeltin in 2016. Saturday.
Andrew Dawber has been Mcilroy’s course bodyguard for most of a decade, and even if he is seen too much on his day, nothing compared to the constant nature of Bethpage attacks. All the long day but a few seconds later, Dawber turned his shoulders to the truth: the driver’s table, about 200 meters away.
“But look at the result,” he said.
The abuse mostly turned Mcilroy inside, who, for a player who is undoubtedly enjoying engaging with his surroundings, seemed different. He has spent most of the week with his eyes fixed to the horizon in front of him, if not on the ground just a few steps forward. He refused to engage in the Tee boxes, even when European fans tried to hit the noise. He will roll his eyes when the noise spread, take a step back and then enter. Only when he collapsed that he issued some of those animated, primary screams we have seen throughout his career Ryder Cup.
With a 1-up lead to 17, and all four players safely in green-this is when the irony was hit more. For the fourth direct session, the driver’s table was mainly covered in blue. After four hours listening to some of the worst things they have ever heard in a golf course, Lowry poured into a 5-party, providing at least half a point from the match and offering Mcilroy the whole of Green Open to finally say something in exchange.
“F – K you!” He screamed in repetitions, in various sections of the American crowd.
“F – K you, f – k you, f – k you.”
After catching the game 15 minutes later, Mcilroy offered a 12 -word golf channel reporter:
“It was a really challenging day. I will sleep well tonight.”
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