ロリー・マキロイ、2025年ライダーカップでの米国ファンの行動に反応
How do you pick and choose when to interact? Yesterday on 16 in the afternoon, I heard some guy who was like, “Roy, you’re not that good.” And you said, “I’m really effing good.” So, I am. I know you are really good. I know. But when do you pick and choose when to interact with the fans? Obviously, there’s playful. Um, honestly, I I’d say it’s just on impulse. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. Um, I’m quite an impulsive character if you haven’t noticed. Um, and uh, sometimes I’ll I’ll engage and sometimes I’ll catch myself and and refrain, but I don’t I don’t really choose when and and it’s just it’s sort of sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. Would you be okay with another RER Cup in this area? If the result was the same, absolutely. I don’t think we should ever accept that in golf. Um, I think golf should be held to a higher standard than than what was, you know, than what was seen out there this week. Um, golf has the ability to unite people. Golf teaches you very good life lessons. It teaches you etiquette. It teaches you how to play by the rules. It teaches you how to respect people. Um, and you know, sometimes this week we didn’t see that. So, uh, no, it this should not be what is acceptable in the RDER Cup. Um, but you know, we will be making sure to say to our fans in Ireland in 2027 that, you know, what happened here this week is is not acceptable. And it’s, you know, I for me it’s, you know, come and support your home team. You come and support your team. You know, I think if I was an American, I would be annoyed that people I didn’t hear a lot of shouts for Scotty today, but I heard a lot of shouts against me. And it’s like support your players, you know, that’s the that’s the thing. So, um, look, it was a rough week for all of us. Um, but at the same time, you know, we we shut them up by our performance and how we played and we we tried to, you know, I I chirped back a few times because it got to me a few times, but we we tried to handle everything that came our way um with class and poise. And for the most part, I felt like we did that. The police out there and the the the amount of the security presence was was insane. Um, and it’s not a look, nothing was going to happen. Nothing was going to happen where I I you know, there wasn’t really going to be any sort of physical altercation or anything like that apart from maybe Tommy and Rosie up to the 16th yesterday. But, um, look, it was just it was, you know, there was a lot of language that was unacceptable and abusive behavior and um, but look, that’s and look, that’s it’s a very it’s a minority of the crowd. It’s not the majority. the majority of people here are true golf fans and are respectful and um let both teams have the the same chance to to hit the shots and um and play a fair contest. But, you know, there was, you know, there was a a small subset of people that um behaved a little bit differently than that. With all that in mind, everything you go through, how satisfying is it to turn around to someone and say, quote, “Shut the f up.” And then stiff it to two feet. Very satisfying. Congratulations. [Applause]
– (question to Rory included) How do you pick and choose when to interact with fans?
– (Rory) Is what you heard out there this week sustainable or does something need to be done?
– (Rory) How satisfying is it to tell someone to shut the F up and then stick it tight?