Group Europe celebrated in type following Sunday’s Ryder Cup triumph, with Luke Donald’s males taunting US President Donald Trump and American rival Bryson DeChambeau earlier than a flurry of champagne showers and sing-a-longs.
Europe held off a late rally from the US workforce within the singles to clinch a 15-13 victory within the cauldron of the Bethpage Black course in New York state, the closest Ryder Cup contest since 2012. Their victory got here after days of verbal abuse from New York spectators, with Northern Eire’s Rory McIlroy the principle goal.
After Shane Lowry birdied the final gap to retain the Ryder Cup, pandemonium erupted on the inexperienced, with the Europeans embracing one another earlier than celebrating with their adoring followers.
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After retreating to the locker room, the Europeans couldn’t resist taunting President Trump, posting a video to social media with the group chanting: “Are you watching, are you watching Donald Trump?”
Trump responded in a submit: “Sure, I’m watching. Congratulations!”
Later, the European golfers discovered themselves on a bridge that hyperlinks the 18th inexperienced to the participant amenities, with hundreds of followers watching from beneath.
The bridge had the names of America’s gamers printed on the aspect, so cheeky McIlroy, who has an notorious rivalry with DeChambeau, deliberately coated the Individuals title with a European flag, a deliberate act of mischief.
The McIlroy-DeChambeau rivalry has been one among golf’s most intriguing and intense lately, with American notably irritated with McIlroy didn’t converse to him through the closing spherical of this yr’s Masters, gained by the Northern Irishman,
Elsewhere, Lowry used a blue pen to alter a 15 that had been printed on the partitions of the sheds, indicating the variety of European Ryder Cup wins, to a 16.
“There we go, f*** them,” he exclaimed after updating the tally.
Because the solar set, the gamers returned to the placing inexperienced for the compulsory champagne showers, with Lowry spraying a full blast of alcohol at McIlroy’s face.
The Europeans howled in laughter as they drenched one another in champagne.
The Europeans erupted in a refrain of sing-a-longs on the workforce bus, mimicking the chants their followers had recited all weekend.
“Europe’s on hearth, USA is terrified,” they belted.
Subsequent, a fan favorite – to the tune of the Cranberries’ ‘Zombie’: “He’s in your heeee-ad, in your heeee-ad, Rory! Rory! Rory!”
McIlroy lifted the trophy above his head as his teammates serenaded the reigning Masters champion.
Lastly, the victors sang Queen’s basic ‘We Are The Champions’.
The next morning, Lowry awoke and tweeted: “I might need a hangover.”