IT is strictly not on to open one’s trap when a golfer is mid-backswing or leaning over a putt.

There are ways to desport oneself during play, like a good old chap, and raised voices and bad language are certainly not par for the course.

But all that went out the clubhouse window at the Ryder Cup in New York this weekend, as Europe star Rory McIlroy might have thought he was among football hooligans, such was the abuse from fans.

On Saturday, as the Northern Irishman ran the gauntlet of boozed-up, baying team United States supporters dressed in stars and stripes, all kinds of insult were thrown at him — and a pint of beer at his wife.

The hate for five-time major champ Rory, 36, and New York-born wife Erica Stoll, 38 , at this biennial event for the 12 top golfers from each of

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