Read our Privacy noticeMatt Fitzpatrick has hit out at “offensive” suggestions from PGA of America president Don Rea that the hostile reception from home crowds at the Ryder Cup in New York were the same as from European fans in Rome two years ago. Luke Donald’s team – and Rory McIlroy in particular – were on the end of some unsavoury abuse from a partisan crowd. Fitzpatrick, who won the 2022 US Open in Brookline, will be back in action at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland this weekend, along with fellow European team members Hatton, Tommy Fleetwood and Robert MacIntyre. It is pretty offensive to European fans the fact that he said that really,” Fitzpatrick said at a press conference. “But I don’t think it will be as hostile (in 2027) as maybe as it was last week.