The MC who was caught on video singing ‘F*** you Rory’ has spoken about the incident at length for the first time – with Heather McMahan apologizing again while offering her version of events.
The now infamous Saturday started with thousands of USA fans engaging in the chant before McIlroy was abut to start his morning match.
“The Ryder Cup is feral, the crowd was feral, it was a brutal environment,” said McMahan as she explained she regretted saying the chant once in an antmosphere she admits got out of control quickly.
“I would just like to say that I immediately did not like the energy and the vibe from when that started to happen. I will take full responsibility, and sincerely apologize to Rory [McIlroy], team Europe for saying that,” she continued. “It was so foolish of me.
“I did not start the chant, I would just like that narrative to get out there. I did not start it, but any way that I participated in that, even just saying it once, was so foolish and so silly of me.”
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Expanding on the atmosphere on that first tee box, McMahan said that even so early in the morning, it quickly turned from fun to feral and toxic in a hurry.
“It went from us trying to be fun and funny and like get it going, to immediately just was negative and felt really toxic,” she said.
“As soon as I said that I was like, ‘I don’t want any part of this. This was just getting weird and I don’t know how to control this crowd of 4,000 dudes at five o’clock in the morning, shouting crazy s***.’
“As soon as that happened, I immediately turned to my producer and said ‘let’s just get the DJ to play music. I don’t know what to do with this audience right now, so I’m not going to participate.’”
‘I can not control what 40,000 drunk men at a golf tournament do’
And after insisting she shut down the chant as soon as she realized her mistake, McMahan…
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