The American ugliness of the Ryder Cup fan was simply a reflection of all-caps of Trump America | Ryder Cup 2025
BThere is time for Europe to finish the work, finally, on Sunday, golf had the last word. But until the fascinating outcome, the lasting memory of this Ryder Cup threatened not to be a single swing of the club as much as the ugly backdrop: galleries which derived from the supporter in Venomous and the organizers who let the line slide until it breaks.
It did not happen at the same time. For the first and a half day of the most intense rivalry in golf, it was in New York without being unruly. Then Saturday afternoon arrived and the tenor changed. Rory McILroy, the lightning lightning rod, continued to get gunshots while abuse fleets landed in the calm of his pre-cut routine. Shane Lowry played his teammate and Minder. Justin Thomas, not exactly a narrowing purple, started to silence his own end of the gallery so that his opponents can put.
There is a difference between the atmosphere and the interference, and Bethpage spent too many weekends bluring the two. Boos during training swings and song “Yew-Ess-Aay! Yew-Ess-Aay! ” After a European miss, he was tedious, but surviving. What slipped on Saturday was different: the insults aimed at the women of the players, the homophobic insults, the cheap shots to the nationality of Mcilroy dripping with boring stereotypes, the joyful reminders of Pinehurst at the moment when McILroy crouching on anything inside five feet.
Europe has responded with performance. So much for the advantage at home: for two years, the Bethpage sales field was the roar and unique American cauldron that would enlighten Europe. Message received, but the idiots took it literally. Add the optics of Donald Trump’s flight on Friday – fist bumps, photo -ops, galleries dotted with Maga hats and a certain humiliation policy playing on its basis – and the fanfaron slipped easily into the license. It does not make the Ryder Cup a referendum. He explains how fast the rope line begins to look like a border that you are invited to test.
Given the well -known aversion of the honor of losing graciously, it was hardly a shock that the worst behavior broke out when the chances of America moved away. But the tournament response to the driving of the ugly crowd on Saturday was dismal. Additional security and a phalanx of New York State soldiers materialized around McILroy’s match on the Tour. Some spectators were ejected near the main stands. The PGA of America said it had strengthened the police and pushed more frequent spectator messages on large screens. Very well, with regard to. But once a thousand people decided that a backswing was their signal, you cannot manage it with a graphic and a frown. The application must be fast, visible and substantial or it becomes permission by another name.
Sunday made the tacit admission that the line had been crossed. The master of ceremonies on the first floor, the actress Heather McMahan, left her role after the video showed her a song of “Fuck You Rory!” Saturday morning. The PGA announced its departure and its apologies before the simple. If the MC amplifies the worst instincts of the building, it is not “energy”; It is an institutional failure.
Luke Donald carefully chose his words as he congratulates his team’s “anti-fragile” temperament and pulled a firm border between “noisy” and “personal”. Keegan Bradley, the United States captain, bristled with any suggestion that the American room had authorized the excess. He called passionate and pointed fans – not wrongly – to the flat game of his team as a trigger for their agitation. But this defense is only going so far. You can be in favor of being toxic. You can fulfill a platform without emptying your standards.
It is also true that many Americans have tried to keep it on the rails. Thomas continued to shake for silence. Cameron Young never bait. Many fans have in fact supported theirs rather than saving the other lot. Too often, however, they were drowned by the hard performatives in combinations of flags and plastic chains that treat the Ryder Cup like a tailgate with better lawn treatments.
But the frame of Bethpage as a single-off misses the largest point. What happened here did not invent the tone of American life as much as it reflects what was a gradual break in public behavior. The country now lives in all the caps, meetings of school panels that resemble street rallies and comments sections that have spread in the street. The algorithm finances indignation, the update is political vernacular and the culture applauds “saying the calm part aloud”. In 2025, you can say almost anything in public and be encouraged (unless you are Jimmy Kimmel). Put a rope line and a microphone in front of this mixture and you get exactly what you have at the Ryder Cup: people testing the limits not because the moment needs it, but because they were told that the volume is virtue. Some could support golf, in the United States in particular, has always been a sport for white conservatives, but it is difficult to remember the galleries that call for opposing players of “fagots” and by openly deriving their wives until recently. What could have changed?
Europe did not need to save itself. They rescued. It could be seen on Saturday, when McILroy and Lowry won their afternoon match two in the eye of the storm. Rose and Fleetwood then sent Scottie Scheffler and Bryson Dechambeau 3 & 2 after a tense exchange on who had the scene; Then they went on stage and won. Donald’s players came to New York while waiting for a nerve test and had him at full explosion.
Sunday gave us a memorable finish. But this week will be memories for noise that was not passion, hostility that was not before and adults who confused the difference. The next time the Cup crosses the Atlantic, in Hazeltine in 2029, whether during Trump’s third term or not, the hosts will have the choice to make the type of event they want to direct – and what type of country they want it to reflect.
