After everything that happened at Bethpage, Rory McIlroy shouldn’t have any reason to have a positive take on the American audience. Yet, after things cooled down, he admitted, “It’s a minority of the crowd. The majority of people here are true golf fans and are respectful,” suggesting that not every fan in New York was bad . Even then, Paul McGinley believes that Luke Donald “asked too much” from the Irishman by making him play all five matches in that environment.

McIlroy was undoubtedly one of the most abused European golfers at Bethpage. Even his wife, Erica Stoll, got a beer thrown at her by one of the fans. But considering his form in 2025, 5 Clubs’ Gary Williams asked if Rors could have maintained his composure and achieved all his feats from this season 5 or 10 years ago?

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