{"id":43003,"date":"2025-10-02T20:49:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fitzpatrick-criticizes-pga-for-comparing-ryder-cup-fandom\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:49:39","slug":"fitzpatrick-criticizes-pga-for-comparing-ryder-cup-fandom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/fitzpatrick-criticizes-pga-for-comparing-ryder-cup-fandom\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitzpatrick criticizes PGA for comparing Ryder Cup fandom"},"content":{"rendered":"Following the culmination of the Ryder Cup, the controversy continues. European golfer Matt Fitzpatrick has responded to the statements of the PGA of America president, Don Rea, calling them &#8220;offensive to European fans&#8221;.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fitzpatrick&#8217;s Answer<\/h2>\n\n\nRea, in an interview, compared the behavior of the fans at Bethpage Black with that of those present at the Marco Simone Golf &amp; Country Club, venue of the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome. Fitzpatrick, visibly annoyed, rejected this comparison.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>What the PGA of America guy said about it being the same in Rome&#8230; he clearly wasn&#8217;t there. Either he wasn&#8217;t there or he was listening to something else, because it was never like that. It&#8217;s always been playful, just banter. The interview with the PGA guy saying it was the same in Rome. That&#8217;s pretty offensive to the European fans.<\/p><cite>Matt Fitzpatrick<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nFitzpatrick, who is in Scotland for the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, expressed his disagreement with Rea&#8217;s assessment of the atmosphere in Rome during the Ryder Cup.\n\nAdditionally, Fitzpatrick perceived a lack of sincerity from Rea during the trophy presentation ceremony, after Europe defeated the United States with a score of 15-13.\n\nThe British golfer felt that the congratulations were not genuine, which added tension to the atmosphere.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the culmination of the Ryder Cup, the controversy continues. European golfer Matt Fitzpatrick has responded to the statements of the PGA of America president, Don Rea, calling them &#8220;offensive to European fans&#8221;. Fitzpatrick&#8217;s Answer Rea, in an interview, compared the behavior of the fans at Bethpage Black with that of those present at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[9395,9396,5943,410],"class_list":{"0":"post-43003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-golf","7":"tag-don-rea","8":"tag-european-fans","9":"tag-matt-fitzpatrick","10":"tag-ryder-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}