Rory McIlroy has made eight Ryder Cup appearances for Europe
Rory McIlroy claims United States captain Keegan Bradley could have used his platform to rein in abusive crowd behaviour at last year's Ryder Cup, but did not take the opportunity.
Europe defeated the US 15-13 at Bethpage Black to retain the trophy and become the first away team to win the event since 2012.
Yet they did so in the face of relentless heckling in New York, with Northern Ireland golfer McIlroy's wife Erica hit by a drink thrown by an American fan and "horrific" abuse directed towards them both and their young daughter Poppy.
"We knew going to New York that we were going to get a lot of stick, a lot of abuse," said McIlroy, while appearing on The Overlap.
