Newly unveiled footage from the Ryder Cup has revealed the exact words exchanged during the heated confrontation between Team USA and Europe on Saturday. The atmosphere almost boiled over on the 15th hole at Bethpage Black Golf Course when Scottie Scheffler's caddie, Ted Scott, found himself in a fiery argument with European vice-captain Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood during the four-ball session.
Following the contentious incident, Scott personally apologised to Molinari and expressed remorse for his actions. In the closing stages of the second afternoon match, Justin Rose asked Bryson DeChambeau's caddie, Gregory Bodine, to move aside while he was preparing his putt.
After Rose made his shot and celebrated with an enthusiastic fist pump, DeChambeau responded by scoring his own birdie.
As the group moved off the green towards the 16th tee box, DeChambeau quickly caught up with his opponents and had a few words for Fleetwood following his teammate's display.
Scott joined DeChambeau and began speaking sternly to Rose until Molinari stepped in between the golfer and caddie.
While Scott and Molinari continued to walk side-by-side to the next hole, the former gave the latter a light push and confronted him. Before the situation could escalate any further, Fleetwood and his caddie, Ian Finnis, separated the pair.
Finnis carried on playing mediator moments afterwards at the tee, enquiring of DeChambeau: "You OK?" The LIV Golf player insisted he was "all good" before stating: "When you're gonna act like that it's really inappropriate."
Finnis grasped DeChambeau's perspective, responding: "I understand that. And I just said, 'Chill out,' and then I came to you, chill out. All good? That's why I want you to chill out, OK? Let's play. Let's play. OK, he can take as long as he wants."
DeChambeau wrapped up the exchange: "Let's go guys, let's play."
Rose struck the decisive blow of the encounter, clinching another point for the Europeans with a par on the hole, wrapping up a 3&2 triumph.
Twenty-four hours afterwards, Scott took to social media to reveal he and Molinari had made peace. "This guy right here, has always been just a very sweet-spirited man," he said.
"We had a heated moment yesterday, but what many of you don't realise is that we got over it. By the time we walked off the 16th tee, it was over, and neither one of us want to make this competition about us.
"We wanna let the players go out there and do their thing and obviously Team Europe is kicking our butts and hopefully today we can make it a little more equal, have a better competition, give the fans what they want, but ultimately I just wanna spread love and joy. It's a great competition. It's great fun, and, this is a great man right here. So I just wanna say I'm sorry to you, brother."
This article first appeared on Mirror US.
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