St Andrews, Scotland | And it goes … On Tuesday, Derek Sprague, the CEO of the PGA of America, explained his intention to apologize for the behavior of American fans in the direction of the European team during the Ryder Cup.
In a golf canal interview, Sprague said that he was planning to apologize from Rory McIlroy and his wife, Erica, as well as the entire European team for the specture abuse to which they were subject to Bethpage Black. Sprague’s repentant comments were in stark contrast to comments that were pronounced on Sunday by PGA President Don Rea, who, among other things, suggested that the behavior of the American crowd in Bethpage Black was not worse than the European fans in Marco Simone in Rome in 2023.
Now we all know that there was endless cheers at St Peter’s Square when White Smoke went up for the new Pope, but on the eve of the Alfred Dunhill Left championship in St. Andrews there was nothing more to go into smoke than Tyrrell Hatton, or rather his new level of calmness. During last week at the Ryder Cup, this often exciting champion had not come close to demolishing the American crowd: “I didn’t really influence me, even if I hit bad photos. I didn’t respond exaggerated … and that continued to apply, even if there were many insults on my way, perhaps over my height, my hair or my hair.
But when, towards the end of his press conference on Wednesday in St. Andrews, a questioner referred to a non -specific comment from the American captain Keegan Bradley about the crowd and Hatton asked if he would compare the two atmosphere in Rome and Bethpage, Hatton started with an unbelievable Stare with what he thought with an unbelievable Stare. “Personally, I don’t think they were close at all. … I think they are pretty far apart to be honest.”
Because Hatton opened the locks, Matt Fitzpatrick, usually a shy soul, did not hesitate to say his piece.
Whatever Rea said it was the same in Rome, he was clearly not there, Fitzpatrick said. “I think he was not there or that he must have listened to something else, because it was just never the case that it was something like that,” the Englishman added. “It’s pretty offensive for European fans, the fact that he really said that.”
For Fitzpatrick, whose parents decided that they would do better to stay away from this year’s competition, the US and European fans are completely different, with some of the Americans prefer “random obscenities” in contrast to the preference of the Europeans for something more creative.
When demanding the intentions of Sprague to apologize, Fitzpatrick said he thought it was understandable that an apology would come.
Fitzpatrick was not ready. After he had mentioned ‘a bit bitterness’ when Europe received the trophy, he was happy to work out and said that when Rea spoke at the presentation, “Me and Rosey [Justin Rose] Looked at each other as if they wanted to say, that was not very sincere congratulations. … and he said we have just kept [the Ryder Cup] But we actually won it. “
“Yes, personal comments can go too far, and you clearly hope that that will no longer happen, or it should not happen.” – Tommy Fleetwood
Tommy Fleetwood, in all honesty, wanted to emphasize that nobody had to blame the Americans as a whole. “I have so many friends who were Americans at the Ryder Cup, and there were people in the neighborhood and said:” I have to support my own team, “Do that. That is just what it is. You will get a difficult environment if you get a ‘way’ Ryder Cup. His European counterparts at their post-match party.
Dr. Andrew Murray, the DP World Tour Medical Man who spoke a few weekends ago at the Protection Conference about protecting mental health care in sport, said that although criticism was something that the players were used to, “it could only be cognitively draining to receive one of the doctor. Everyone is not affected; everyone; Admiration was about how Luke Donald, the European captain, had dealt with.
For all three of Fleetwood, Hatton and Fitzpatrick, there is no better way to recover from Bethpage Black’s stress than play in the Dunhill. Fleetwood, who has never missed the tournament since 2011 when he was still on the challenge tour, continues to work with friends he made all those years ago in St. Andrews in the Pro-Am. Hatton, last year’s winner, does what he did last year in playing with his father, Jess, while Fitzpatrick changed his mother, Sue, with whom he won a few years ago for his father, Jeff. (Sue is now playing with Matt’s younger brother, Alex.) They all rejoice because they have another playmate on their side as they did on Friday and Saturday on Long Island.
And if, this week, things come to rest in the middle of the peace, perfect peace, by St. Andrews, a probably conversation about Donald and whether or not he comes to the side of the Captainincy for the third time.
Just like Dr. Murray, nobody to say a bad word about this former world no. 1 whose grandmother, together with her twins, was raised in a monastery in Edinburgh when their mother died in childhood. There they were raised by their aunt May, a nun.
“Starting life in a monastery gave my mother an amazing nature,” said Colin Donald, the deceased father of Luke, once. “I don’t think she and I once had a crossword. I inherited her great sense of children and yes, I can see something from her in Luke.”
Luke, the youngest of four, has always known where his temperament serves him best in his chosen career. “I am not too excited if things go well and I will not be too good if they are not.”
Nothing has changed.
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