Leave on Saturday in Bethpage Black, where the Europeans cruise and this Ryder Cup turn into a laugher, we finally saw some American energy – although this example was recorded until a tense moment outside the Green.
Europe won three of the four four-seater competitions to start on Saturday, and the routes went through all four afternoon four-ball matches throughout Europe. The crooked score took some juice from the event, but then came a Justin Rose Putt on the 15th Green.
Rose and Tommy Fleetwood were 3 up after 14 holes versus Bryson Dechambeau and Scottie Scheffler, and on the 15th Green Rose rose up to read his Birdie attempt. Rose studied his putt from behind the ball, but then he stopped, said something and waved the Caddie van Dechambeau, Greg Bodine, who began to approach the nearby Mark of Decchambeau. The usually gentle rose was irritated.
NBC On-Course Reporter Smylie Kaufman called it a ‘heated exchange’.
“Justin Rose told Bryson’s Caddie, Greg Bodine, to step out of his best when he read his putt,” said Kaufman. “I think there was a bit of misunderstanding about who was gone.”
Rose has turned the putt – his eighth This day – and then waited for Dechambeau, who had to have his birdwatcher try to extend the game.
“There is still an exchange on the right side of the green,” said Kaufman. “I think Greg Bodine came to apologize or make his business and Justin really didn’t have it.”
Dechambeau rolled in his Birdie to bind the gap, but his celebration was modest. Instead, he started talking to Rose and Fleetwood while they walked from the green. Cameras followed the players until the 16th Tee, where it became even more heated.
An animated Dechamebeau Tjilp in Fleetwood, and Scheffler’s Caddy, Ted Scott, was in a tense conversation with the European vice-captain Edoardo Molinari. At a certain point Fleetwood deliberately walked between Scott and Molinari.
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The Caddy of Fleetwood, Ian Finnis, could be heard on the broadcast and said, “Let’s just chill.”
The conversation went on on the next tee, with Finnis, who tried to play the peacemaker, and told DECHAMBEAU and Bodine: “Let’s play. He can take as long as he wants.”
“Let’s go guys, let’s play,” Dephambeau told the group. “It’s all good.”
The broadcast caught up with the group a few minutes later and Kaufman gave an update: “No exaggerated guys – every person on this tee is heated.”
Later, after closing the 3 and 2 victory, Rose explained the situation in an interview after the round with Damon Hack from Golf Channel.
“It was a shame that the game came to that point, because it was a real, really great match,” said Rose. “I waited to draw. The boys clearly worked on their lectures, clearly continued with their calculations and pieces and bits. So I waited a few seconds, and then I felt that they were coming up again. I wondered – it was my putt, good? Or how I might not have experienced it, but it was clear that it was the wrong way.
“I don’t think we should be honest with that. I told the boys, if you want me to say,” please me please, “then, yes my bad.”
Fleetwood a follow -up was asked about how if that tense moment is an example of what the Ryder Cup does for competitors.
He shrugged.
“I think it is a part of it, right?” he said. “It is a moment on two days of a lot of wave and lots of great wave … it happens.”
Europe leads the US 11.5-4.5 with remaining singles competitions, which means that the Americans have a lot of work to do if they want to have a chance on Sunday at Bethpage Black.
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