US Open Fans Get Lit On The Greens And Flame Golfers

2009_06_usopendrunks.jpg Faced with a dreadful week of weather that has play a day behind schedule and on-and-off showers keeping some golfers on the greens for upwards of eleven hours yesterday, some local fans at Bethpage Black greeted US Open golfers in the fashion New Yorkers do best—by getting wasted and heckling them. Newsday reports that Tiger Woods may have gotten the worst of it. Among the "You suck!" and "This Bud's for you!" callouts, one fan got in, "Suck it up, you've got your own video game!" The paper says that Tiger "tried to quiet the crowd with a 'sshh' hand gesture." The fans' response: "We're on Long Island, baby, where men are men! Put that umbrella down!" Other fans, lacking in that level of chutzpah and cleverness, simply stuck to targeting golfer Fred Funk by "shouting his last name as an obscenity." The boo birds and delays didn't seem to faze leader Ricky Barnes, who set an Open record by going eight under after 36 holes. He said, "Nothing you can do. It's kind of like being stuck in an airport and they won't refund you." For more, check out Newsday's U.S. Open blog.

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Keep it classy, golf fans!

Sporting events and beer. Always a brilliant combination. Especially at events that are supposed to be quiet.

I don't expect anything less from them in LI.
I like to google "phil mickelson and asshole".
that tells me all I need to know about the Tri State golf fans.

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Hey, Gilmore, you suck.

"And you can count...on me waiting for you in the parking lot."

"Damn you people! This is golf. Not a rock concert."

Nothing like drinking a warm beer in the rain to bring out the best in people.

I love it. Be Long Island Trash for a day, get drunk and heckle a golfer. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

For extra fun go Long Island CRAZY and streak the LIE! WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO

It's probably impossible to hold any sort of event on Long Island without attracting scores of FLIDs. How do you keep them away? No beer?

With the Yankees out of town the meatheads need somewhere to go and flex their beer muscles. You would have to be a genuine asshole to stand in the rain to watch golf in the first place...

Serves the PGA right. They should know to dress in hockey jerseys when playing in LI.

Golf is very much like hockey. It's the warm weather version of hockey, but the game moves along at a slightly slower pace it appears. Why don't they have refs blowing whistles when someone gets the ball in the hole?

In the old days a player could knock another player's ball further away, similar to croquet. Those were the days. Bring back that rule and you will see the violence on the course escalate.

Guess it beats the basketball fans rioting a week ago.

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