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The Ryder Cup presented its fair share of comforting moments, but at the end of the day, it is always an intense rivalry.
One has the impression that there is more pumping in the fist during these three days of golf that In The entire golf season.
And sometimes the golfers launch a little with their emotions. Here are some of the most heated moments in the history of the tournament.
Screed
Without doubt the most intense moment in the history of the Ryder Cup, with tensions that are swallowed well after the game, occurred in the most recent tournament.
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Rory McILroy, Patrick Reed and Justin Leonard are among some of the most intense moments in the history of the Ryder Cup. (Getty Images)
First of all, we have to rewind on Saturdays earlier in 2023, while Patrick Cantlay was not wearing a hat because, he said, that did not suit him well. Speculation, however, was that it was not paid to wear the hat without sponsor, or play, and it was a sign of protest. Ironically, American players are paid this year, while Europeans are not, perhaps motivating the team abroad.
Back to golf. With these speculation floating around Marco Simone Golf & Country Club, Cantlay was mocked by European fans who agitated their hats throughout the Channel. Well, the Hatless Cantlay emptied a 43-foot putt with 18 feet to win at least half a point. His teammates responded by returning the waves of the hat, just like the Cantlay shopping cart, Joe Lacava.
Lacava, however, may have taken it a little too far by waving his hat right in front of Rory McILroy, who had the chance to link the match. This caused a conversation between McILroy and Lacava before the putt, with Lacava saying to Shane Lowry from the green to “close the F — Up”.
All the games seemed civilian at the end of the game, but McILroy, still hot about the incident, had to be retained by Shane Lowry while taking his frustrations on Jim “Bones” McKay.
18 fire holes
For a guy who called the Ryder Cup an “exhibition” for which he would probably not even be the pump, McILroy is certainly on this list.
But while he is a key element in the biggest moment with a unlocking temperament in the history of the tournament, he also played a major factor in the most intense 18 holes of all time.
Europe needs a return to Hazeltine in 2016, they sent McILroy first against Patrick Reed, who wanted all the smoke.
Patrick Reed of Team USA and Rory McILroy of Team Europe serve the hand on the Green during the Ryder Cup of the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota. (Robert Beck / Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)
While McILroy would make the crowd close, Reed bowed in front of them, celebrating like each short putt was a touchdown in the Super Bowl. The two even went to respect when McILroy drained a 45 feet and shouted categorically, and Reed replied by doing his birdie and going up his finger. The fist duo fought and tapped each other in the back.
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McILroy admitted in a characteristic of the Ryder Cup in 2025 that they both was wasted a ton of energy on the first nine, but the match still spent 18 years. When Reed’s winning putt dropped, he compensated for this lack of energy and has gone absolutely crazy.
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Premature celebration
The United States was finishing the biggest return in the history of the Ryder Cup in 1999 in Brookline.
By following 10-6 entering Sunday, no team had ever made a two-point deficit on the last day to win the Cup. Ben Crenshaw raised his finger on Saturday evening, saying he had a “good feeling” on Sunday.
And of course. The United States team has won each of the first seven matches in single to suddenly lead, 13-10. Europe has won two points, but Jim Furyk beat Sergio Garcia to take a 14-12 lead.
Needing half a point to win the Ryder Cup, Justin Leonard emptied a 40-foot sipt on the 17th hole, causing absolute madness on green. The players, the wives and apparently the cameras stormed green, while Jose Maria Olazabal always had a putt to keep the match tied. The cameras apparently entered the Olazabal line, affecting his putt. Olazabal missed, winning the United States for the United States.
Fans storm the 18th Fairway after the last twosome at the 33rd Ryder Cup in Brookline, Massachusetts on September 26, 1999. (Bill Greene / The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
A title in the London evening standard read: “How to win a cup but lose all dignity.” Olazabal described the green heckling “a ugly image to see”, and the vice-captain of Europe Sam Torrance said that the United States team should have “shame”.
Europe would get its revenge by each winning the next three Ryder Cups, with the last two by nine points.
Vigilant eyes
Seve Ballesteros and Paul Azinger had a dispute at the 1989 Ryder Cup, but tensions continued two years later on the island of Kiawah.
Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal were twinned against Azinger and Chip Beck. The Spanish attracted Americans to change the type of ball they used according to the wind, which is contrary to the rules. The Americans denied it at the beginning, but admitted it after being revealed that they would not be penalized because the Spaniards confronted them too late.
The Americans were confronted with the 10th hole, and he became the main source of many calls from Europeans who claimed the game by the American team in the coming years.
