Farmingdale, NY – Rory Mcilroy came off the hill of the 17th hole of Bethpage Black, arms extended into a fist pump while crying towards a group of European fans as they sang and danced on the other side of the ropes.
McIlroy returned from the 18th hole, where he and best partner Shane Lowry had just finished their American opponents in the first match of the fourth session of this Ryder Cup. And now he had come back to cheer the matches behind him, ratified by the blue flags that fill the scoreboard and the eruption victory that they had insured anything but insured.
These fans were Serenaden with the national anthem of the day, sung on the melody of the “zombie” of the cranberries:
He is in your hower
In Your Heeeeead
Ro-O-Ry, Roo-O-Ry, Roo-O-Ry, Ry, Ry
McIlroy set off, High-Fives from the Delirious Scrum before leasing back to his teammates. But when he turned around, something flew out of the crowd: a half -filled drink sailed through the sky and walked out of the hat of McIlroy’s wife, Erica, next to him.
The entire contingent Wervelde surprised around – Erica, Rory, Lowry, Marshals, teammates, assistant – coaches – and Lowry started to walk to the crowd before he was stopped by an employee of Team Europe. It was not clear where the cup came from or why, whether there was a malicious intention or whether it had come from an excited euro. Anyway, the moment passed, the Cup-Meerder did not escape and the team turned to continue to the 17th Green, and drawn their attention to the remaining two games. But the moment told the story of the day: the joy of sport and the sensation of a charged environment against some shocking bodies of fans that cross the border – and ultimately full dominance of McIlroy and the road team, who got the last word.
Have the fans exceeded the border? That was the question that a large part of Thursday afternoon around the Bethpage site Ping, especially after “there is a way in which the US returns …?” was laid to rest.
There is no way to give one simple answer, so let’s try several. Yes, fans exceeded the border. Two lines, to become specific. The European captain Luke Donald explained them after the round, the procedural and the personal one: first of all, it is a bad form to shout at a player when he is hitting his shot and secondly it is dirty behavior to scream about the family of a player, especially knowing that player and his family are there to hear it. Fans did both, and not just one or two fans but one lot From fans, foamy and frustrated with the size of the event and the size of the shortage of the home team and the fact that there are tens of thousands of fans, but only four groups on the track. So if you are a certain type of fan and you finally have a glimpse of Rory and Co. Get, go counting it.
But it is also reduction to reject the atmosphere of the entire event based on the Line Crossers. After all, this is sport and sport is really good when people start to take care of both the players and the fans. The care is the whole point – and we have that in kicking. There were brilliant sports scenes all day, European herohaperters urged American opponents at greater heights. They came up with unprecedented numbers of F-bombs, thousands sent the way of the players, before 7 hours and further, and dozens of returned. It was exaggerated. It was a spectacle. And the golf that was played among everything was impressive as hell.
“Look, we knew what we would come here,” said Lowry. “It was a very tough day. Out with Rory it doesn’t make it easier; I think he gets the victim.”
McIlroy said he was happy that he had Lowry by his side on Saturday afternoon: “He was there for me today. All the honor of this victory is going to Shane today.”
Lowry added this: “It was intense. It was like something I have never experienced before. But this is what I live for. This is it. This is, as, to be honest, the reason I get up in the morning for things like this. This is what I like to do.”
It’s hard for everyone to hate Tommy Fleetwood Or one of the other sweet members of the European team. But Saturday’s atmosphere was so busy that tensions also happened elsewhere. The afternoon match behind McIlroy/Lowry Pited World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (0-3-0 in the first three sessions) and Megastar Bryson Deschambeau (1-2-0) against Fleetwood and Justin Rose. The Americans desperately came in for a victory, but it was Rose who arrived in his pocket with magic, flowing to the left and right while he unleashed six Birdies in their first eight holes and built a lead that would be insurmountable.
But a moment on the 15th tee again showed how different the Ryder Cup is than any other golf tournament in the world. Rose stood in line his Birdie -Putt when Deschambeau and his Caddy, Greg Bodine, came too close to Rose’s line to his taste, so he moved them away.
“Asked him to move. Maybe not as polite as I could have done,” Rose said later.
Rose made his putt. Moments later, Decchambeau made its own Birdie -Putt and fourth in Rose’s direction. Suddenly they were a jaw while they walked to the next Tee – Deschambeau and Rose, Bodine and Fleetwood’s Caddy, Ian Finnis, even Scheffler’s Caddy Ted Scott and, unlikely, European assistant Francesco Molinari, who took a shoulder of Scott while walking among the parties involved. In the end, Finnis-a type of peace strength made it clear at 6-foot-6-ded that they had to drop it all, and they did. But it spoke to how tense the area had come – and how good the wave was inside.
“I felt pretty good, but watching Justin Rose on the golf course is some of my proud few hours on the golf course,” Fleetwood said. “I thought it was absolutely great. So blessed to be by his side today.” That was the determining third ingredient of the day: tension. Incredible wave. And European brotherhood.
“You know, crowds have energy, and you can use it the way you want. It’s how you also mate it,” Donald said, and offers some perspective on the scene.
“There is a stimulus, a reaction, and in between is how you decide what you want to do with it. I think some people find that motivating. Sometimes the crowd that goes to you can see a motivator for some of these players, and I think Rory and Shane certainly saw it as if they are almost enjoying the difficult environment there is.”
There were times of real sportiness Between the two teams. Each party seemed to appreciate the heroic deeds of their opponent; In the afternoon, Golf Channel reported that the euros ended a combined 34 under par, while team USA 31 shot under, a ridiculous number of total birdies.
Justin Thomas and Cameron Young were the golfers opposite McIlroy and Lowry in their charged afternoon session. After several holes inexorably, the Americans started to silence the crowd before their opponents played. This is more difficult than it sounds; How do you delay a crowd? But they stayed with it for the rest of the game and do their best to ensure that a match played under honest, as brutal, conditions. However, that made it a particularly difficult loss.
“The Ryder Cup is the only event that you can have and lose so much,” said Thomas. “It just brings out some incredible wave. I would play and fight with Cam every day of the week. I just bumpt that we didn’t get it done.”
For the last hour of the game, members of Team Europe drove around the last piece of gaps of Bethpage, laughing and hugging and cherishing in the Be, don’t be Subjects from their fans. The whole thing had a festive feeling, as if they had already closed the deal. In honesty, they effectively held Close the deal; No Ryder Cup team has ever come from more than four points and the American team arrives on Sunday 7.
But nevertheless we will play golf on Sunday. We get hours more from parties. And we get McIlroy in the middle while he sees whether he can end a dream season with a victory over Scottie Scheffler. The fans will do what they can do to stop him. They can encourage him instead. And then the wait of two years starts until we come to the next Ryder Cup and ask me where the line is there.
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