‘Lot Of Fans in America’: Shane Lowry makes curious claims about Ryder Cup -fans at Bethpage

The 2025 Ryder Cup in Bethpage Black in New York has only been removed for a few weeks. The expectation is that it is one of the most heated Ryder cups in history, with the Long Island fans expected to offer the American team a big boost … and give the European team hell. That is, unless you talk to Shane Lowry.

The Open Champion 2019 and now three times European Ryder Cupper received a Captain’s Pick to make the Euro team this year. And Lowry thinks he and his European countrymen will have a lot of fan support in Bethpage, and claims that European players have ‘many fans in America’.

But history shows Lowry’s hope for a Civil Ryder Cup on Long Island is probably fantasy. This is what you need to know.

Lowry thinks Team Europe will have support at Bethpage Black

On Monday, the European captain Luke Donald announced his six Captain’s Picks for this year’s Ryder Cup team. Lowry was an obvious choice, which was seventh in the rankings of the European Ryder Cup.

Lowry also played in the victorious 2023 Ryder Cup team, which prevailed in an intense competition in which players saw on both sides, including Lowry, in confrontations.

After playing in Rome, the event was also turbulent crowds for the European team, and fans who are not afraid to participate by Juizing American players. That is the tradition of the Ryder Cup.

But Lowry thinks this year’s Ryder Cup will be different. During the press conference of Luke Donald who announced the choices of his captain on Monday, Lowry argued that the crowd in Bethpage Black will not be so biased for the Americans as most believe.

“There is a lot of talk about what the crowd will look like and how bad they will be. But hmmm, I don’t know,” Lowry said Monday.

He continued by saying that he thinks the European team will have many fans they root on Bethpage. Why? Because most members of Team Europe live in the US and receive fan support at PGA Tour events in the US

“I think there will be many European fans there. I said it last week when I was asked, we play week-in, week in America. We all live in America, or most of us do that anyway, and we all have a lot of fans in America,” Lowry said.

He ended his mind by throwing doubts about the idea that fans encourage him at Say, the Arnold Palmer Invitational (where Lowry finished seventh this year), will run and shoot at the Ryder Cup.

“I don’t think they can turn you so badly for a week,” said Lowry, “but that is still too viewed.”

But the Ryder Cup is not a regular PGA Tour event. As soon as the best professionals play for a flag instead of themselves, nationalism tends to take over everything else and to be heavier, because Lowry himself has experienced several times in the past.

Lowry in 2021 proclaimed ‘disgusting’ American Ryder Cup fans

Of course Lowry has already participated in a Ryder cup on American soil, when the American team Europe with 19-9 in 2021 Trounced.

That week the European players became pilering by Midwestern Golf fans, which resulted in various incidents that confuse European professionals.

And one of those ugly incidents included Lowry. After the 2021 Ryder Cup, Lowry opened about the abuse that his wife received From American fans at Whistling Straits.

“I didn’t think it was so bad until I asked my wife how it was for her, and they also got abuse,” said Lowry and added: “Some people are idiots, especially when they drink.”

But on Monday, Lowry revealed that he thinks that the bustle in Bethpage will not be as bad as those who attended the 2021 event at Whistling Straits, and that the European team will have more fans this year than in 2021.

“Yes, it was clear that Whistling Straits was a bit different where there were no European fans at all. I know that this time there will not be as many European fans as Americans, but there will still be a few, and I imagine that the few will bring their support,” Lowry said. “There is a lot of talk about what it will be at Bethpage. If there is one thing that I am sure, I know that Luke Donald and his team have ready to go when it comes to that Friday morning.”

In other words, Lowry thinks that sport fans of New York, who are notorously brutal and uncivilized, will treat Europeans better than Midwestern fans, who are polite stereotyped.

But if this year’s Ryder Cup is something like the US Open 2002 played in Bethpage Black, where American fans resolutely followed the top European Pros Collin Montgomerie and Sergio Garcia, it would be unwise to put money on Lowry’s forecast.

The father of Xander Schauffele Plans Boycot by Ryder Cup

The intensity of competition at Ryder Cups has lately been a hot topic. A father of a US Ryder Cup star even announced that he would boycott the event about behavior from the past by fans and players.

In one interview with The Times of London In July, Stefan Schauffele, father of the American star Xander Schauffele, announced that this year he would not attend this year’s Ryder Cup because of the loaded nature of the event.

Interesting is that chilly two recent examples of bad behavior used to underline his point, both of which had Lowry.

“No. I’m not going to the Ryder Cup,” said Schauffele The Times of London. ‘I am afraid of what will happen in New York. I was there [at the 2021 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits] When they called Shane Lowry’s wife, AW — for him. I couldn’t believe my ears. “

He then mentioned the most heated moment of the Ryder Cup 2023 in Rome, when Rory McIlroy and Lowry ended up in repeated confrontations with the American player Patrick Cantlay and Caddies Joe Lacava and Jim “Bones” Mackay.

“I saw what happened in Rome. That was completely disgusting to claim this money Bull – T and Rory [McIlroy] In my opinion, was disgusting. It is only getting worse. It has ruined my appetite for the Ryder Cup. It is not going to be patching, “said Schauffele.

With both team schedules now set, the 2025 Ryder Cup starts 26 September in Bethpage State Park.

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