You do not need to be a season ticket holder at the Metlife Stadium or Madison Square Garden to know that New York fans are a special race. Loudly. Passion. Looking. Endlessly loyal … until they are. Earn them a championship and you will win for life; Hit the big game and they will leave you from the city. We are mainly talking about the supporters of New York Sunday Sports teams, but many of these same principles apply to New Yorkers who pack the rope lines on the biggest Big Apple golf tours. They also express their emotions in no uncertain terms.
New Yawkwill come in sharp focus when Ryder cup Visits the black course in Bethpage State Park Next week. (Bethpage is in Farmingdale, a city of Long Island with 8,500 inhabitants about 40 miles east of New York City.) We know that the atmosphere will be loud, busy and bold because Ryder’s cups are always. We know some fans will be SPECIALLY Chirpy according to golf standards, because, well … see: Ryder Cup. We also know all this noise and razzing and maybe even some rage has the potential to reach a new level of row and razzing and maybe even some rage because New York golf fans have a story.
Where to start? With the Round of Practice in US Open 1974 in 1974 WingspanWhere Jerry McGee withdrew from fans to fight to advance a ball from a fierce lie? (“These are supposed to be professional players?”, A spectator withdrew.) Or with US Open in 1986 Shinnecock hillsWhere Greg Norman put his way into the gallery to face two hated hecklers? (“I haven’t tried this kind of items anywhere else,” said Norman. “Here they are opening their mouths a lot.”)
Or with, well, select Bethpage Black Major: The 2002 US Open, where Sergio Garcia was so shaken by the masses that speak loudly that he responded with a greeting of the middle fingers; US Open 2009, where on Saturday the Tiger Woods shook fans and USA, in an effort to curb the discoverers, closed early beer sales; Or the PGA 2019 championship, where the eventual Brooks champion Koepka heard it from the galleries on Sunday when he scored four consecutive ninth. “It’S’S’S NEW YORK,” Koepka said later about Boo birds. “What do you expect when you are leaving half of it?”
And next week, when Europeans come to the city, seeking to become the first road team to win a Ryder Cup in 13 years, in the wake of 2023’s controversial publication in Italy that without tension between players and cades (respectively, Looper of Patrick Cantlay, Joe Lacava) Spilling from the golf course in the parking lot? OOH, boy, keep your circles and Mich Ultras, people, because this Bethpage Ryder cup can be moved to flat anarchy!
“I think there is the potential to be the most unresponsive fanbase of all time in Golf,” Gregg Giannotti told me in a telephone interview earlier this week. “I really believe that. I don’t want to sound dramatic, but there are some reasons why.”
Giannotti, better known for New York Sports fans as “Gio”, is co-perpetrator, along with NFL Great Boomer Esiason, the popular show Wfan Sports-Talk, “Gio and Boomer”. Gio spends his days shredding him with sports fans in New York, he is obsessed with golf and he lives in Long Island. You would be pressure hard to find someone more convenient to speculate on what nut can unfold next week.
For one, Giannotti said, Golf has never been more popular, and with increased interest in the game can come an unprecedented increase in electricity throughout the “course of people” fabricated in New York. “Then you put all the patriotism of the SH.BA and New York and simply the type of person to attend and want to take your face and scream in Rory and others – will be crazy,” Giannotti said. “At the top of it, everyone wants to be a superstar these days and they want to film something and then they want to be the boy who (a player) roll the bird or has (a player) turn and slam and scream at you. They want to antagonize these boys and take on their face and get that reaction.”
That would be Rory as in Rory Mcilroy, who in the back of a dream season in which he won the masters, played an open championship in his homeland and won Irish Open outside Dublin, does not mean, without saying, enjoy the same warm wait in the Bethpage he made in those places. Of all Europeans, Mcilroy, in fact, is likely to move the burden of the power of the American crowd.
The European captain prepared by Uber Luke Donald knows what is coming. To prepare the euro for chaos, Donald supplied his team with VR headphones that simulate the experience of playing in front of the tens of thousands of screaming fans. “Better better try to desensitize yourself as much as possible before you get there,” Mcilroy said on Sunday, sounding like he was preparing not for a golf tour but a steel cage match.
The intensity of the New Yorkers comes from the energy of the city’s heart in which they live inside and around. There is an inherent severity, an advantage, in New Yorkers, but also a sense of the deep seed of We need to get another, and root for each other – At an individual level, but also at the team level. Probably especially at the team level.
“New York fan has such A passion, “Ed Anazlone told me another day. Anazlone-known as” Fireman ed “-is a New York Super-Fan Jets! Jets! Jets! Jets! “You have people coming from the streets, they are harsh, and so when they want something, they are loyal,” continued Anazlone in the DNA of New York fans. “This is just what we were taught from the beginning. When it was hanged in the school kindergarten, you taught loyalty and adhere to your sons no matter what, and I just think New York is like that.”
Not all the fans in Bethpage will be the locals of the NYC area, of course, but a lot will. Somewhere in the vicinity of the 50,000 ticket holders will roam the bases every day of the match, including a visible new Yorker former who knows little about activating the basics. On Friday, President Donald Trump is expected to make an appearance. Randy Simons, the New York State Parks Commissioner, said at a press conference on Wednesday that security is a major advantage for the event. Five hundred state troops will be in the country along with 100 other Park police officers, plus representation from the law enforcement teams of local municipalities and district. Supervision drones will also be on patrol.
Still, it is difficult to deceive the police, which, in theory, said Giannotti, the American team could hear from their fans if things start to go aside. “The crowd can turn Americans,” he said. “We do not like to lose. How many times have all Jets Boo fans see their team out of the field in half the time? For the sake of God, they Booed Aaron Judge in Yankee Stadium last year. We turn our teams and we scream in them, and we expect more.
It is difficult to fully catch the excitement and prediction of this event. Since the American PGA announced the Bethpage Ryder Cup in 2013, Hype has apparently increased by year – and, now, the day. For a long time, Phil Mickelson and Sergio Garcia – both played roles in the US Open 2002 in the black course – seemed to be the respective captains of their teams. Instead, Donald has returned to defend the title he helped win for Europe in 2023, and a son no one saw by coming-39-year-old KEEGAN BRADLEY – is poisoning the US side. Bradley is not a new Yorker born and educated, but he spent the years of college in Queens, at the University of St. John. He understands the ethics of New York fans.
“No one in any team wants this to become uncomfortable or strange there,” Bradley said last year. “But listen, you enter the Yankee Stadium, you enter Madison Square Garden, you enter these places, it’s a hard place to play, and Luke and boys know that.”
And now Java – finally – It’s just about us.
“We’ve talked about this forever,” Giannotti said about himself and his parties of golf. “Predicting for this golf event is like nothing I have ever experienced.” Giannotti admits that some of those construction can be attributed to him who is a tall island and a golf nut. But there is something bigger at work, he said.
“I am trying not to have a prejudice of the reviewer,” he said. “But that can be, with everything considered – where it is, tensions from the latest Ryder Cup, Fanbase, the popularity of golf – this may be the biggest golf event of my life fact that is here in your backyard in a public course – I mean, for the sake of God, if we lose this, you will not be able to talk to me for two weeks.”
He and several million other American golf fans.
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