Bethpage MC steps down over vulgar Rory chants

A maestro of ceremonies has stepped down from her relation astatine the Ryder Cup aft joining the Bethpage Black assemblage successful directing expletive-laced chants toward Rory McIlroy.

In a connection released to the BBC, the PGA of America announced that American comedian and histrion Heather McMahan volition not instrumentality to emcee astatine the archetypal tee Sunday.

"Heather has extended an apology to Rory Mcllroy and Ryder Cup Europe and has stepped down from hosting the archetypal tee of the Ryder Cup," said the PGA of America, which runs the event.

Video footage taken Saturday greeting appeared to amusement McMahan riling up fans astatine the archetypal tee by shouting, "F--- you Rory," into the microphone.

European golfers, who person dominated the archetypal 2 days of the competition, were heckled repeatedly by the rowdy Bethpage Black assemblage Saturday -- and McIlroy caught the brunt of the abuse.

During greeting foursome play, McIlroy told spectators to "shut the f--- up," aft being yelled astatine portion lining up to deed a shot. The reigning Masters champion besides had to backmost disconnected his shot aggregate times connected the 4th greenish during day four-ball play due to the fact that of yelling fans.

"I don't caput them having a spell astatine us," McIlroy said aft his greeting match. "Like, that's to beryllium expected. I mean, that's what an distant Ryder Cup is. Whenever they are inactive doing it portion you are implicit the shot and trying to deed your shot, that's the pugnacious thing."

Fans heckled McIlroy implicit his erstwhile large losses astatine Pinehurst, shouted that his Masters triumph this twelvemonth was "a fluke," and besides took shots astatine his idiosyncratic beingness and his marriage.

"Look, erstwhile you play an distant Ryder Cup, it's really, truly challenging," McIlroy said. "It's not for maine to say. People tin beryllium their ain justice connected if they [took] it excessively acold oregon not."

By the ninth spread Saturday afternoon, astir 20 New York State Police troopers lined the ropes arsenic the players teed off. Some Bethpage State Park Police officers connected bikes monitored the galleries.

New York State constabulary spokesperson Beau Duffy said 2 fans were ejected. The PGA of America said it added information to the McIlroy lucifer and the different three. It besides posted a connection connected the ample video boards connected "Spectator Etiquette."

McIlroy and the Europeans participate Sunday with a seven-point lead, the largest pb successful the past of the Ryder Cup's modern format.

ESPN's Paolo Uggetti and The Associated Press contributed to this report.