This New York Ryder Cup will be crazy. The question is, how crazy?

You don’t need to be a season ticket holder in Metlife Stadium or Madison Square Garden to know that New York fans are a special breed. Loud. Passionate. Require. Endless loyalty…until they didn’t. Win their championship and you will win them for life; blow the big game and they will drive you out of town. We are talking largely about supporters of various sports teams in New York, but these same principles apply to New Yorkers who pack ropes at the Big Apple Big Apple’s largest golf tournament. They also express their emotions without hesitation.

New yawkERS will be in the spotlight next week when the Ryder Cup visits the black court at Bethpage State Park. (Bethpage in Farmingdale, a Long Island with 8,500 residents about 40 miles east of New York City.) We know the atmosphere will be loud, charged and crazier, because Ryder Cups always do. We know some fans will especially Chirpy by golf standards, because, well…see: Ryder Cup. We also know that all this noise and uplifting person, maybe even some anger, have the potential to reach new levels of noise and excitement, maybe even some anger, because New York golf fans have some history.

Where to start? With the 1974 practice of opening the winged feet in the United States, was Jerry McGee welcomed fans for his efforts to push the ball from rough lies? (“These should be professional golfers?” one viewer quipped.) Or was there a 1986 Shinnecock Hills Open where Greg Norman broke into the gallery, facing two dirty heck dogs? (“I haven’t experienced this stuff anywhere else,” Norman said. “They’re opening their mouths too much here.”)

Or, choose your Bethpage Black Major: 2002 US Open, Sergio Garcia is so shocked by the crowd of Smack Talking that he responds with a tribute from his middle finger. At the 2009 U.S. Open, Tiger Woods rocked fans there on Saturday, while USGA worked to curb revelers and shut down beer sales as early as possible; or 2019 PGA champion, ultimate champion Brooks Koepka, heard four straight back-nine bogeys from the gallery on Sunday. “This is New York,” Koepka said later of Boo Birds. “What do you expect when you half-choke it?”

Next week, when Europeans come to town, hoping to be a controversial 2023 edition in Italy, winning the Ryder Cup in 13 years, has caused tensions between players and the Caddies (i.e. Patrick Cantlay’s looper, Joe Lacava, Joe Lacava, Joe Lacava, Joe Lacava) to overflow from the parking lot from the golf course? Oh boy, grab your periscope and Mich Ultras as this Bethpage Ryder Cup may turn into flat anarchy!

“I think it’s possible to be the most disrespectful fan base of golf ever,” Gregg Giannotti told me in a phone interview earlier this week. “I really believe in that. I don’t want to sound dramatic, but there are a few reasons.”

Giannotti is New York Sports’ “Gio”, co-host, and NFL Great Boomer Esiason of the popular WFAN sports show “Gio and Boomer.” Gio spent a lot of time cutting with New York sports fans, he was obsessed with golf and he lived on Long Island. It’s hard for you to find someone who is more suitable to speculate on what might happen next week.

On the one hand, golf has never been so popular and the interest in gaming has increased, and could play unprecedented power in New York’s legendary “People’s Route.” “Then you put the whole thing about American patriotism and New York into New York, just the type of people who are going to be part of and want to yell at Rory and others – it’s going to be crazy,” Giannotti said. “The most important thing is that everybody wants to be a superstar these days, they want to shoot something, and then they want to be a person [a player] Flip the bird to or [a player] Turn around and shout at you with a frown. They wanted to fight these guys and got a reaction on their faces. ”

That would be Rory, who, like Rory McIlroy, won the Open Championship in his own homeland and won the Irish Open outside Dublin, needless to say, enjoyed the same warm reception he did at Bethpage as he did at those other venues. In fact, of all Europeans, McIlroy is likely to be the first to bear the brunt.

European captain Luke Donald, Europe’s ready captain, knows what’s going to happen. To prepare for the euro for chaos, Donald provided his team with VR headphones that simulated the experience of playing in front of thousands of screaming fans. “It’s better to desensitize yourself before getting in there,” McIlroy said Sunday. It sounds like he’s preparing for a golf tournament, but preparing for a steel cage game.

The intensity of New Yorkers comes from the energy of their heartbeat in the city. There is an inherent resilience among New Yorkers, an advantage We need to grab the other and take root with each other – On a personal level, but at a team level. Maybe especially at the team level.

“New York fans have Such Ed Anazlone told me the other day. Anazlone (often known as “Fireman ed”) is a huge New York fan himself. Anazlone, a retired Harlem-based firefighter, is known in the New York sports world as he wore his signature green and white rescue helmet, blended with the Jets game and swayed on the craziest stage. Jets! Jets! Jets! Jets! “You have people coming from the streets, they’re tough, so when they love something, they’re loyal.” Anazron continued on the DNA of fans in New York. “That’s exactly what we’ve taught from the beginning. When you’re hanging out on campus, you’re taught to be loyal and stay connected with your guy, and anyway, I just think that’s what New York is like.”

Of course, all Bethpage fans will be locals in the NYC area, but many will. On the day of each competition, somewhere near 50,000 conductors will roam the ground, including a particularly noteworthy former New Yorker who knows a little about the activation base. President Donald Trump is expected to make his debut on Friday. New York State Parks Commissioner Randy Simons said in a press conference Wednesday that safety is a top priority for the event. Five hundred state police officers will be on the scene along with another 100 park police officers, as well as representatives of local and county municipal law enforcement forces. Surveillance drones will also be patrolled.

Nevertheless, theoretically, Giannotti said that if things start to go sideways, the U.S. team could hear letters from their own fans. “The crowd can open the Americans,” he said. “We don’t like losing. Everyone is watching Jets fans play their team at halftime? For God’s sake, they booed Judge Aaron last year at Yankee Stadium. We opened our team and we screamed and we expect more. If they end up doing well, we might be doing a good job for the Europeans.”

It is difficult to fully capture the excitement and expectation about this event. Since the US PGA announced the Bethpage Ryder Cup in 2013, the hype seems to have grown over the course of the year – now, now. For a long time, both Phil Mickelson and Sergio Garcia starred in the 2002 Black Stadium Open, seemingly destined to be their respective captains. Instead, Donald resumed the title he won for Europe in 2023, and a man no one has seen before (39-year-old Keegan Bradley) is leading the United States. Bradley wasn’t a New Yorker, but he did spend his college years in Queens at St. John’s University. He understands the spirit of New York fans.

“No one on any team wants it to be uncomfortable or weird,” Bradley said last year. “But listen, you go into Yankee Stadium, go into Madison Square Garden, go into these places, it’s a hard place to play, and Luke and the boys know that.”

It’s a week now – at last – It’s right in us.

“We’ve been talking about it,” Giannotti said of herself and his golf friend. “The expectation for this golf game is like I’ve never experienced it,” Giannotti admits that some of the accumulation can be attributed to being a Long Islander and golf nuts. But the work is also bigger, he said.

“I tried not to have a recent bias,” he said. “But it could be a consideration for everything – the tension in the last Ryder Cup, the fan base, the popularity of golf – it was probably the biggest golf event in my life. It does. It’s OK. Like I said. I’m saying, I’m going to be biased, but I’ll be like I’m going to be like a long time, because your personal facts are in your personal sense, but the facts are, the facts, and both the facts are plus another cup. That’s in the backyard of public courses, and I mean, for God’s sake, you won’t be able to talk to me in two weeks if we lose this.”

He and millions of other American golf fans.