Rory McIlroy’s wife Erica Stoll had an ‘unbelievable’ reaction to abuse from US golf fans during the Ryder Cup.

The back-to-back Masters champion faced intense abuse from Team USA fans at the Ryder Cup in Bethpage Black last year, with USA fans chanting insults about his family, including his wife, Erica — who was also hit by a beer thrown by a member of the crowd.

While Rory eventually lost his cool, telling fans at the 16th hole to ‘shut the f**k up,’ Team Europe ended up comprehensively beating Team USA 15-13 — although the conduct of the USA fans was under intense scrutiny.

Despite the abuse, Rory’s Team Europe teammate Bob MacIntyre was impressed by Erica and her lack of reaction to the abuse, saying that she didn’t react at all to the chants aimed at her.

‘On Saturday on the sixth hole, Rory and Shane’s group stopped and didn’t hit a shot for about 10 minutes,’ Bob told Golf Digest.

‘I was in the team room doing some physio, and I said “we need to go out there.” I rounded up about 10 of us-players, caddies, staff, so that Rory and Shane weren’t just seeing hostile fans everywhere they looked.’

‘Honestly, it was Erica who amazed me most,’ he added. ‘She was sitting in the back of that buggy like an absolute trooper, not flinching.

‘If she reacted, Rory would have reacted-and if the two of them reacted, the crowd would have won. She was unbelievable.’

Rory and Erica married at Ashford Castle, Co Mayo, back in 2017, and share a daughter, Poppy, who was born in 2020.

Rory filed for divorce in May 2024, but the filing was withdrawn just one month later — with Erica kissing Rory in celebration following his second Masters win at Augusta last month.

The kiss was scrutinised by fans following their interaction at last year’s Masters, which was a simple embrace after Rory won the trophy that had eluded him all these years for the first time