Stepping into the hostile New York crowd was not quite what the Europeans had prepared for. Months of training with VR Headsets and employing comedians to roast them in practice to simulate crowd aggression, everything failed. The loud boos, the personal jabs, and even instances of physical aggression stamped this year’s Ryder Cup as one to be remembered, and certainly not for the right reasons. Especially for one particular player.

Rory McIlroy was the one to suffer the most at Bethpage. While some level of heckling was expected, the lowness to which the crowd stopped was shocking. Hally Leadbette r, one of golf’s leading hosts, echoed vocal support towards him in an exclusive interview with EssentiallySports .

“I think Rory McIlroy said it best a couple of days ago, where he

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