Watch: Rory Mcllroy caught on camera arguing in car park at Ryder Cup
Rory McIlroy was at the centre of a furious row as emotions boiled over at the Ryder Cup in Rome.McIlroy and teammate Matt Fitzpatrick lost their fourball match to Patrick Cantlay’s dramatic long putt on the 18th green, and the Northern Irishman was visibly unhappy with Cantlay’s caddie, Joe lacava, who celebrated wildly towards European fans who had been teasing his player all day, and the two had tense words as they shook hands.Sky Sports Golf
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00:00 and Europe needing just four points to win.
00:02 This just moments ago, and Rory is hot.
00:08 Got a message, it appears, for Bones, Shane Lowry,
00:11 trying to keep his man from going deeper into that scrape.
00:16 Paulie, what do you think here?
00:18 -I mean, he's fighting with the nicest guy in the world, Bones.
00:21 What's going on there?
00:23 -Well, listen, passion is what the Ryder Cup is about.
00:26 These guys are great fun. -He had a little bit --
00:28 -You know, friends, I mean.
00:30 -He had a little bit of a beef on that 18th green.
00:31 -There is. Something kicked off.
00:33 Yeah, something kicked off there.
00:35 And, you know, Bones is the nicest guy.
00:36 He's not a contentious guy. He's going over the --
00:38 -Well, so is -- Yeah. -And so is Rory.
00:40 -So is Joe Licava.
00:42 -I don't know what's going on there.
00:43 Bones looks --
00:45 -Yeah, let's bring in Rex Hoggart.
00:46 He's down there. Rex, go ahead.
00:48 -It was quite the exchange, obviously,
00:49 between McElroy here and Jim "Bones" Mackay.
00:54 Rory was trying to get into his courtesy car to leave the area,
00:57 and he got into a heated, very loud exchange with Mackay.
01:00 He said, "That can't happen. It's a disgrace."
01:03 He used some language that I'm not going to use on air.
01:06 Clearly, he was referring to what happened on the 18th green.
01:08 You remember Joe Licava was kind of celebrating
01:12 the birdie putt by Patrick Cantlay,
01:14 waving his hat in the air
01:16 while Rory was trying to line up his own birdie putt.
01:19 So it got very heated, and Shane Lowry, as you saw,
01:22 had to step in to separate the two.