SERGIO GARCIA’S American wife, Angela, has appeared on national TV in the States, to warn fans she will turn on them if the Europe-baiting gets out of hand this week.
And she revealed that she confronted foul-mouthed spectators the last time the Ryder Cup was held in the US, at Hazeltine five years ago, when Garcia was her boyfriend – they were married the following year.
Angela felt so strongly about the possibility of similar abuse being dished out at Whistling Straits that she requested an appearance on CNN to deliver her warning.
She said: “I understand cheering for your team but let’s leave the insults out.
“It went too far at Hazeltine when I was following Sergio, and I ended up having a go at a group of guys who were barracking him.
“I said to them: ‘I’m here supporting the European team, I’m an American, and you’re embarrassing me’.
“The people around us joined in and said: ‘Yeah, you’re embarrassing us too!’ So I said to the guys I want to see American fans being better than that.
“To be fair to them, they said OK, and later on they saw me again, and by then they’d figured out who I was.
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“They came over and gave me a hug and apologised. I think there were four of them. We all hugged, and it was all go.”
Angela is one of four Americans among the European WAGS, who are all given special permission to follow their partners from inside the ropes.
American fans are expected to make up 98 per cent of the 40,000 strong crowds at Whistling Straits, because of travel curbs on European supporters.
And with no restrictions on alcohol sales, there are fears boozed-up fans will target the European players – although Ryder Cup officials say there will be security men with every group, under orders to eject any spectators who go over the top.
