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A Ryder Cup crowd announcer has stepped down after leading an expletive-filled chant about Rory McIlroy.

Heather McMahan urged fans at the first tee to shout “f***you Rory” together after players were introduced to the crowd on Saturday, before the start of the afternoon session at Bethpage Black, in New York.

It set the tone for a lot of the treatment McIlroy subsequently received and was among the number of unsavoury incidents on a fractious, fraught day of action overshadowed by crowd problems, PA news agency reports.

A statement from the PGA of America, the event organisers, read: “Heather McMahan has extended an apology to Rory Mcllroy and Ryder Cup Europe and has stepped down from hosting the first tee of the Ryder Cup.”

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