10 Most Heated Moments at the Ryder Cup
Here are the 10 most heated moments in RDER Cup history. Scotsman Eric Brown sends his caddy into the clubhouse in the middle of his match to collect a folding chair. His opponent, Tommy Bolt, has been deliberately playing painfully slowly, so Eric decides to take a seat next to him for the rest of the round. The pair don’t shake hands, and Bolt refers to British fans as the most miserable bunch. Despite ending with the infamous concession, 1969 was a nasty affair. Eric Brown, now the GBNI captain, told players not to help Americans look for lost balls. Amidst the fury, American Ken still putted out of turn which almost ended in a punch up on the following green. After some deliberation over a through line, Sevi decided to take matters into his own hands in his fourball match with Curtis Strange. He said that? Okay, don’t you worry. I’m going to hold it anyway. Chips it in the fist pump in the air. He looks straight at Cartis in the ice and he says, “Any problems with the through line?” Now, on reaching the second green at the belfry, Balisteros noticed a mark on his ball. Claiming it was a cut, he proposed to Azinger that he would swap it for a new one. Azinger and the referee disagreed. He hold his putt with the cut ball, to which a European fan exclaimed, “What would you have done with the good ball, Sevy?” During the later dubbed War on the Shore at Kiwa Island, a local South Carolina radio station obtained the phone numbers of the European team hotel room, asking listeners to phone them in the late hours to disturb their sleep. Monty goes on a trashtalking tour, putting himself on the same level as Tiger, calling Mickelson unreliable and suggesting that due to Brad Faxton’s impending divorce, he wouldn’t be with it. Fred Funk calls him jerk of the world, and Monty is forced to write letters of apology to the offended. Justin Leonard rolls in a 45 ft putt on the 17th hole to bring the US one step closer to a historic comeback. Players and wives storm the green across the line of Alathabal, who still has a putt to salvage victory for the Europeans. A few years after a disastrous captaincy in 2008 at Valhalla, Faldo referred to Garcia as being useless. A few years later, after Garcia surpassed Faldo’s points record, he said, “I’ve passed some of my heroes today and Nick Faldo.” After a crushing loss at Glenn Eagles, Phil Mickelson publicly undresses captain Tom Watson at the post-match press conference. In front of the whole team, he credits 2008’s win to a real game plan and says Tom Watson offered no such thing. Unfortunately, uh we have strayed from a winning formula in08 for the last three RDER Cups and and we uh we need to consider maybe getting back to that formula that that helped us play our best. By Saturday at Hazel Team, the abuse on Rory was relentless. Fans heckled him mercilessly and one was ejected for an unre repeatable comment. The cherry on top of the tension came on Sunday when Rory and Patrick Reed traded bombs on the eighth green in a jewel for the ages. [Applause]
🔥 The 10 Most Heated Ryder Cup Moments EVER 🔥
The Ryder Cup isn’t just golf… it’s battles, feuds, and chaos. From Seve vs Azinger to Brookline’s madness, Rory vs Reed, and Mickelson calling out his own captain – these are the wildest Ryder Cup moments of all time.
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