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American team’s dominant star and the Masters champion had a much different experience at Ryder Cup
We all need to laugh. Helps keep us sane. Pete Willett, of Birmingham, England, agrees. Although his younger brother Danny is the reigning Masters champion, Pete wrote a scathing piece in a prominent British golf magazine on the eve of the Ryder Cup.
“For the Americans to stand a chance of winning, they need their baying mob of imbeciles to caress their egos every step of the way,” he claimed, before ending the piece by calling them, “those fat, stupid, greedy, classless b******s.”
Granted, it could well be a verbatim quote from one of the candidates running for president this year, but nonetheless Americans were not amused and Danny was left to clean up his brother’s mess. “It’s obviously not the thoughts of myself and of the teams,” he said, while personally apologising to US captain Davis Love.
Still, Danny and family, minus his brother back in the UK, were subjected to endless abuse throughout the competition at Hazeltine in Minnesota, which the Americans won convincingly.
Watch: Danny Willett’s press conference ahead of the Ryder Cup
This in turn prompted Danny to tweet: “Unfortunately some American fans showed that Pete Willett was in fact correct.”