Bethpage Ryder Cup lingers for all the error reasons

The best golf activities linger in our minds for all the right reasons. Tom Watson’s “I Feel Love” on car radios around the world during the hot summer of 77 in Turnberry, Donna Summer. Big Jack, Augusta, in 1986, he turned back. Faldo-Norman, a decade later, is a study of sportsmanship. Tiger won 15 wins at the Open in St Andrews in 2000, which is a superior study. The Presidential Cup in South Africa in 2003 ended with a draw when night fell. Good time for golf.

Then there’s the latest Ryder Cup: Bethpage ’25, hovering for all the reasons for mistakes.

Tom Watson, a former US Ryder Cup player (four times) and captain (two times), feels forced to apologize to Europeans, even if he has no direct contact with this year’s event. “I’m ashamed of what happened,” Watson said.

Profane songs from American fans, the first T-shirt and the entire course. The beer threw (or hit) in the direction of Rory McIlroy’s wife Erica. This gorgeous public is shrouded in the garbage blanket when the trash can is overloaded and then some trash cans. At that time, the Ryder Cup recalled the New York City health workers’ strike in 1968. I remember that winter when my grandparents were in the garbage hill in front of the apartment building on the Upper West Side.

Let’s not overdo it. This is not the Ryder Cup that is sometimes defeated by gangsters. Bill Buford captured avid fans in “The Mob”, turning into a violent mob with amazing details. Bethpage Black does not have similar scenarios. But if the activity doesn’t worry about the direction of golf, you’ll sleep on the steering wheel of the EZ-GO.

“As a native of New Yorker, I feel I should apologize for everything you have to endure,” I told Rory McIlroy Sunday night. In fact, the Europeans beat me. The stunning American reversal in Sunday’s singles turned the European blowout victory that could have been beaten to its own weird nails and a 15-13 final. The right team won. The victory of the United States was originally a reward for Brush’s American behavior. It will encourage more of the same.

“It’s OK – everything is fine,” McIlroy said. His white team shirt was soaked with sprayed champagne. I first met McIlroy when I was 19. You would love to say you know he was destined to live such a big life, but the golf career was not guaranteed at all. “Anyway,” McIlroy said, “you live in Philadelphia now.”

Because, you know, nothing can once It happened in Philadelphia.

The PGA of the United States will compete in Philadelphia’s next international golf competition within nine months, the 2026 PGA Championship at the stately club on the main line of Philadelphia (10 miles from the old and new Tiger Woods Learning Center in Cobbs Creek). Before that, the PGA Championship you know will provide the US PGA with the opportunity to run into a variety of new and improved new forms.

From a higher perspective, the PGA will give fans the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of one of the most enduring qualities of golf. The British Open does this every year. The Walker Cup does this every other year. Olympic golf does this every four years. The PGA in the United States has been more than a century now and has hosted hundreds of exemplary events for every golf. However, the recent Ryder Cup is Golf’s biggest event, away from them. You learned from your mistakes, right? That’s Life 101. In every aspect of life, including our guards, we all know the importance of making adjustments. The next American Ryder Cup is 2029, at Hazel. You walk through 100 farms from downtown Minneapolis to get there.

On Friday, I interviewed Lieutenant Kory Barney, a senior New York State Park official, at Bethpage. He is one of 12 officers on bicycle patrols, as well as hundreds of other officers from various law enforcement agencies. On Friday, dozens of Secret Service officers were included as Donald Trump became the first current president to compete in the Ryder Cup.

Barney has participated in other golf events at Bethpage. I asked if he had ever been riding a bike on a rope that Friday afternoon. “No, never,” he said.

By Saturday afternoon, he was. Various law enforcement agencies made a tactical policing turn on Saturday as crowd behaviors ranged from partisan and jingoistic (exceptions) to vulgar and vulgar. We live in rough times.

We really do it. We live in rough times. Nowadays, anyone with a different worldview does not agree with anyone you do not agree with. People, men and women use the word like what.

The Ryder Cup is always nervous in their accumulation, game and consequences. In a pre-news press conference, a mild Californian Collin Morikawa said: “Honestly, I think it’s a tame so far. I hope Friday is absolutely messy. I go all out. I think it’s who we are.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Morikawa is a smart young man and it is important to know this sentence. You might say the golf is doing well inside the ropes on Sunday afternoon, when the rankings were tight and wrongly killed. Most players were frightened. The greatness of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods is how still and focused they become when other people change things about other guys. The increase in fan interest stems from this particular internal chaos.

Hurry up next to it: One of the few moving things I saw in Bethpage on Saturday afternoon was Morikawa and Harris English wandering the fairway. Nothing was played. As (recall to be said in retrospect) a well-thought-out backup team, Morikawa and Harris suffered huge losses again on Friday morning and Saturday morning. But they hung on their hips on Saturday afternoon, cheering their Americans. They can’t feel the top of the world. They might want to be in a dark, quiet and cool room, but they don’t want to see it. Glimpse the full content of Ryder Cup Golf.

But Morikawa’s comment on the chaos is not ridiculous. Not all about Ryder Cup Golf.

Tom Watson’s public apology is surprising, but not surprising. When I was a golfing era in the mid-1970s, Watson was the most exciting thing about golf, and like many young fans, I was attracted to him. Watson played me for real golf games, making golf golf courses. Later, when I met him as a journalist, Watson shocked me, a man who hopes the world of hope (to borrow a sentence) will always be morally concerned. Over the past half century, Watson has won his first major – ’75 open at Carnoustie – and the world has become increasingly rough. Watson said in his words and actions that golf can be an oasis, which should be an oasis. Golf can be outgoing. We are here to control our destiny.

During the first decade of the game, I played almost all my golf in Suffolk County, the eastern county of Long Island. (Bethpage spans the Nassau County-Suffolk County border.) My partner and I are in Bellport, county courses, state campuses, state universities, public courses owned by golf lovers, happy to break the village. We are all core New Yorkers, rooted in the Mets, Jets, Rangers and the Knicks. New York sports fans are famous for their throats. But golf is different. Golf is a place to practice good manners. I played some for my high school principal. He competed regularly with another school principal and curriculum principal. What they play for pride rather than pride, but they show it to their core. This is the value of the game.

This means it should expand to fanaticism. In 1986, Greg Norman was ridiculed some at the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. He is a great white shark, Australian, and it’s so perfect for us. We want to see Jack Nicklaus produce some one-off magic. We want to see Tom Watson win the second U.S. Open, or Raymond Floyd wins his first game. (He did.) Norman’s disciple did not last. They were closed by other fans, police and Norman. Other majors on Long Island have been sued for years, but there is no Ryder Cup this year. Other Ryder Cups I’ve participated in, both at home and abroad, are not like Bethpage Black, and are not even in the country club in Boston.

It was a tough three days for Colin Montgomerie. More importantly, after Justin Leonard blew that bomb on Sunday, neither the U.S. players, along with their captain Ben Crenshaw and others should have reached the 17th Green – José María Olazábal’s putt cut the hole in half. The moment of bad behavior, self-absorbing, but not calculated. Just a top-notch reaction to excessive moments. This is vigorous. Things were resolved soon. But, since then, bad behavior has indeed been a growth thing. Ryder Cup organizers have surpassed things in various ways on both sides of the Atlantic. The mainstream golf publisher is there, here, helping and teaching, turning the exhibition golf game into Premier League football.

At Bethpage, all 12 American players and their caddies, the captain and five of his assistants, and other team members in uniform can do more to keep the gangster silent. You raise your arms. You mean the troublemaker. You have a policy that after their first attack they are abandoned, not just escorting other places. The PGA in the United States may have more crowd control officials among fans. It can provide some kind of inspiring conversation when it comes in, Austin Power recites “Oh, oh,” on the endless scroll.

I hope to see the Nicklaus-Jacklin franchise award become even more important, and here two players on each team are honored to be in the Ryder Cup with the spirit of our golf predecessors, and are honored in the Ryder Cup and 30 other games. (This year, Tommy Fleetwood Some As it has been for many years, measure gravity and form. This year, US PGA President Don Rea just handed the trophy to the winners. It would be much better to see Americans there. Failure of grace is part of the game.

The last thing is to praise golf fans in Bethpage Black and any other matches. 99% of Bethpage’s fans are certainly responsible golf fans. It’s hard to watch, start early, go some faraway separation, put on a shuttle, climb up crowded hills all day, hoping to see something meaningful when you might miss most of the biggest moments. Generally speaking, golf administrators don’t realize what the average fan endures in the name of seeing the sport they like. As the world becomes more screen-oriented, AI has left a huge impact on our daily lives, the physical effort required to watch golf tournaments and the public awareness brought from the experience will become even more important. The point is that golf has to figure out a way to make the fan experience better than before. Fans should not be taken for granted. Fans should be able to play, actually see some golf and spend a full day off from the rough ways of daily life.

Michael Bamberger welcomes your comments via michael.bamberger@golf.com