With the match tightening and the crowd taunting him, Rory McIlroy backed off his approach shot from the rough on the 16th hole at Bethpage Black and shouted “Shut the (expletive) up!” — an outburst picked up by a TV microphone positioned right next to him at the Ryder Cup.

Then he stepped in, hit that approach to 3 feet and his teammate, Tommy Fleetwood, made the putt to cap Europe’s 3-and-2 victory Saturday over Collin Morikawa and Harris English.

It was the second foursomes victory for the team called “Fleetwood Mac” over the American pairing of Morikawa and English. It came after the Americans had won two straight holes to turn a blowout into something a bit different.

McIlroy said in a radio interview afterward that he didn’t mind fans “having a go at us,” but he said it’s disrespe

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