Bryson, Rose, caddies get heated at Bethpage

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- It hasn't been a large Ryder Cup week for American stars Bryson DeChambeau and Scottie Scheffler astatine Bethpage Black, and it didn't get immoderate amended erstwhile their caddies were progressive successful a confrontation with Europe's Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood during their four-ball lucifer Saturday.

As Rose was lining up a 15-foot birdie effort connected the 15th hole, helium said DeChambeau's caddie, Greg Bodine, came backmost to work the American star's putt again and was lasting adjacent to his line. Rose pointed for Bodine to determination retired of the way.

"I was waiting to putt, the boys were evidently moving connected their read, evidently going done a batch of their benignant of whatever, calculations and bits and pieces, truthful I benignant of waited a fewer seconds," Rose said. "Then I felt similar they came up again, and I was like, 'It's my putt, right?'"

The Europeans were 3 up successful the match, truthful tensions already were moving high.

"Maybe I didn't accidental it arsenic politely arsenic I could person said it successful the moment, but by nary means was determination immoderate disrespect oregon thing similar that," Rose said. "But evidently it was taken the incorrect way."

After Rose made his birdie putt, helium celebrated successful the absorption of DeChambeau and Bodine.

When DeChambeau made an 11-foot birdie putt to widen the match, helium seemed to instrumentality the favor.

As the golfers walked disconnected the green, DeChambeau approached Rose, and the brace exchanged words.

"I said to the boys, 'If you privation maine to say, "Excuse me, please," past yeah, my bad,'" Rose said.

The incidental continued up the elevation to the 16th tee box. Fleetwood and his caddie, Ian Finnis, joined the heated discussion, and past Scheffler's caddie, Ted Scott, had words with European squad vice-captain Francesco Molinari. Fleetwood stepped betwixt Molinari and Scott to abstracted them and effort to calm down the situation.

"It's 1 infinitesimal retired of 2 days of a batch of play and a batch of large golf," Fleetwood said. "You're retired determination and, yeah, it happens. I don't deliberation it's that large of a deal."

After Rose made a 6½-foot par putt to seal the 3-and-2 triumph connected the 16th hole, the golfers and the caddies shook hands. Scott talked to Molinari, and things seemed to calm down.

"It was a shame that the lucifer got to that constituent due to the fact that it was really a truly large match," Rose said.

Rose hoped the concern was implicit connected the 16th greenish erstwhile the lucifer finished.

"Listen, I anticipation so," Rose said. "I spoke to the boys. It should beryllium [over], successful my opinion. There was nary intent down it whatsoever. I respect [Scheffler] much than anybody other retired connected circuit with the mode helium goes astir his business, the mode helium goes astir his life, and evidently conscionable immense respect each around.

"But from my constituent of view, it was thing that was benignant of taken successful a mode that wasn't intended successful a way, but evidently it was a large putt, large moment. I'm trying to power my situation arsenic good successful that scenario. We're each competitors, right? I deliberation that's each wrong the model of what we've got to bash retired here."

Remarkably, DeChambeau and Scheffler were 9 nether successful the lucifer -- and mislaid handily.

"Bryson and I did immoderate bully worldly retired there," Scheffler said. "We were into a pugnacious matchup today. Those guys played great. They made a ton of putts and truly extremity of a headdress to them. They played amended than we did."

It has been different forgettable Ryder Cup week for Scheffler, who became the archetypal American golfer to suffer a lucifer successful each of the archetypal 4 sessions of a Ryder Cup. It had antecedently lone been done by 2 Europeans: Peter Alliss (1967) and Peter Townsend (1971).

The satellite No. 1 is the lone the 4th American to suffer 4 matches during 1 Ryder Cup played connected U.S. soil, joining Read Entire Article