While the New York crowd peppered Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry with insults on Saturday afternoon at the Ryder Cup, tensions flared inside the ropes with the four-ball match closest behind.

The confrontation occurred on Bethpage’s 15th green, ignited by Justin Rose telling Bryson DeChambeau’s caddie, Greg Bodine, to back off while he read his 15-foot birdie putt. Cameras showed Bodine encroaching on Rose’s line as he and DeChambeau were preparing for an 11-footer of their own.

After Rose and DeChambeau traded makes, maintaining the European’s 3-up advantage, several arguments ensured, involving not only Bodine and Rose but DeChambeau, Rose’s partner Tommy Fleetwood, Scottie Scheffler’s caddie Ted Scott and European assistant Francesco Molinari. The only person that appeared to refrain fr

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