After an expletive laden rant in a parking lot, the Northern Irish golfer turned to the stoic Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in Europe’s seventh straight home win in the tournament.
after his parking lot outburst at the Ryder Cup on Saturday night as he made his way to Marco Simone the following morning to help Europe regain the golden trophy.
Two years later, McIlroy was pouring Champagne over teammate Shane Lowry’s head and leading the soccer-style celebrations on the podium as Europe’s players took turns to hoist the 17-inch gold trophy high.“I’ve luckily been a part of a few winning Ryder Cup teams and it feels amazing. But at the same time, being part of a losing Ryder Cup team sucks, it really does.”
Well, he formed a new European dream team with Tommy Fleetwood, they are calling it “Fleetwood Mac”, to claim back-to-back foursomes wins and combined with Matt Fitzpatrick in fourballs for one of the biggest victories of the week, 5 and 3 over Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele on Friday afternoon.
Maybe that was partly the reason why he lost his temper so bad on the 18th green and later outside the clubhouse as he fired off angry words in the direction of Cantlay’s caddie, Joe LaCava, who McIlroy perceived to have acted disrespectfully by waving his hat in his line of sight ahead of a potentially match-tying putt.
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