Ryder Cup host hecked Rory McIlroy regrets but also frustrated

If R-class heck angers from Ryder fans were shown last week on Bethpage Black’s Ryder Cup, the first tee was played by comedian and Podcaster Heather McMahan as the host and party-launched roles in the early hours of Saturday. Her duties include interacting with fans in the clumsy stands behind the 1st T-shirt and 18th green, and trying – trying – and, as she says, usually “get everyone hyped”.

During the lead in the first four games that morning, McMahan’s cheerleaders encouraged Bryson DeChambeau, who was ready to compete with his partner Scottie Scheffler and play against Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood.

“Dee-Sham-Bow!” McMahan began to frolick in her microphone. “Dee-Sham-Bow!”

The crowd joined: “Dee-Sham-Bow! Dee-Sham-Bow!”

After several rejections, a group of fans drowned Deschamps’ ode with one of their own: “f-you, Rory! f-you, Rory!”

McMahan didn’t start mocking, but she did go to the carnival, once barking: “f-you, Rory!”

With the current videos starting to tour on social media, it was a tough look for McMahan and the event organizer, the American PGA, with no choice but to lighten McMahan’s responsibilities. On Saturday night, the association issued a 26-word statement: “Heather McMahan apologized to Rory McLloy and Ryder Cup Europe and resigned from the first T-shirt that hosted the Ryder Cup.”

McMahan himself has no public comment on the incident. It changed Wednesday afternoon, when the latest episode of her “Absolutely Not” podcast details records of what happened.

McMahon said Friday’s first day of energy (the first day of the game) was relatively tame as she and her team were still calibrating the microphone and generally felt how best to work.

“Then Saturday came,” she said. “The one thing I got from the team is that we need to get everyone hyped.

When fans started applying at 5 a.m., McMahon said she started doing “crowd work” – “Where are you from? Massachusetts? Well, you’re from North Carolina. Like, do the whole thing,” she said. “We have to increase our energy.”

As a stand-up comic, McMahan experiences entertaining crowds. She has starred in comedy specials on Netflix and Hulu and played a role in the 2021 romantic comedy “Love Hard.” But she said her Ryder Cup hosting job Laregly didn’t require the skills that caught her off guard.

“It’s frustrating because I think the job I’m employed isn’t what we end up doing from trying to figure it out together as a team,” she said. “I think when celebrities show up on the first tee, I’ll definitely do more celebrity interviews. I thought I thought it would be on the radio. That didn’t happen.

McMahon tried to lead several hymns under the name of American players, but she said the efforts were not going well. “We’re just booing,” she said. “These guys don’t want anything to do with it. …The crowds are starting to get very irritated, really fast. this Atmosphere. ”

Then her DeChambeau cheers turned into a colorful McIlroy Chant, which led to McMahon’s gaffe.

“I made an absolutely terrible mistake I told them back once,” she said. “If you watch the video, I kind of smiled at myself.

She added: “I will take full responsibility and sincerely apologize for the Rory team in Europe saying this. It’s so stupid to me. I didn’t start the hymn. I can go there like that narrative.”

McMahon said she felt the energy shift from “funny and fun” to “toxic” after McIlroy’s lyrics, and she had to control “5am, yelling crazy S,” and she felt overwhelmed. She said that at that time she told the producers, her husband, Jeff Daniels, that would be the best if she quit the proceedings and let the DJ take over. She also said the DP World Tour was close to her and said negative singing to European players was unacceptable, which was a point she agreed.

She said she contacted the DP World Tour shortly after the turnover and apologized to McIlroy and the European team. She thought it had solved the incident until she woke up Sunday morning and found that the media in the media reported on a Ryder Cup host – some of which she said were inaccurately describing her as the start of the hymn. “It’s really blown up,” she said. “I just want to clear the air, and even if I give that energy on that energy, my intentions are by no means malicious.”

She added: “You’re telling me that at 5 a.m. in a sports game, I have so much power to draw lines for a bunch of men, like, hey, that doesn’t make sense to me.”

On Sunday, McMahon said she and her husband were waving the Ryder Cup logo, and its ironic sensibility did not disappear.

“Jeff and I had to laugh about it,” McMahon said. “We were like, it was crazy. I mean, listen, I took a lesson in the media. I’ve learned a lesson. I’ve learned a lesson and thus introduced the work forward, like I need specific parameters. I need to know exactly what is required for me.”