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Justin Rose has vowed Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup stars will not be distracted by the melee around Donald Trump\u2019s visit to Bethpage on Friday, while spectators have been warned to brace themselves for security chaos as a result of the US president\u2019s presence. Europe face broader challenges after the USA team member Collin Morikawa called for home fans to cause \u201cabsolute chaos\u201d for the visitors. Morikawa believes the early part of Ryder Cup week has proved \u201ctame\u201d.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s arrival on the first day of the 45th Ryder Cup will trigger airport-style checks for fans and a ban on several items including folding chairs, umbrellas and vapes. The Bethpage gates will open at the unprecedented time of 5am, more than two hours before play gets under way, in an attempt to alleviate an inevitably tricky situation. Security bubbles and additional screening will be in place around certain areas where Trump could be present.<\/p>\n
The focus of Rose and his European teammates is on retaining the trophy won in Rome two years ago. The Englishman, who is taking part in his seventh Ryder Cup, revealed he does not expect the US president to appear on the 1st tee and promised Europe will not lose their focus from the task in hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously he is going to bring certainly a lot of attention and patriotism to the event,\u201d said Rose of Trump. \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to necessarily be on the tee box with us or roaming the course. So from that point of view, I think there will just be a lot of noise around it but I\u2019m not sure there will be the continued distraction of it. I could be wrong, just based upon what I\u2019ve heard, how they\u2019re going to handle his movements around the property.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen, it\u2019s great for golf that he\u2019s engaged in the game and obviously he brings a lot of eyeballs with him. Fan-wise, I\u2019m sure Friday afternoon will be certainly very intense and entertaining.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rose\u2019s comments suggest Trump will take the advice of the PGA of America and appear for the second rather than opening session on Friday. The Ryder Cup organisers had asked the White House to ensure the president did not come in the morning, in an attempt to alleviate security pressures at this 1400-acre site. About 50,000 spectators are expected at Bethpage on each tournament day.<\/p>\n
Security around Trump has been intensified by the recent killing of Charlie Kirk. On Wednesday morning, Ryder Cup organisers announced a string of measures never previously encountered at the biennial event. \u201cTicketed attendees are strongly urged to arrive as early as possible and should budget extra time as they plan their day,\u201d said a PGA of America statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition to security screening at the entrance, spectators will be subjected to TSA [Transportation Security Administration]-style screening points around the clubhouse, adjacent grandstand and surrounding areas. If spectators leave these secure areas, they will need to be screened again prior to reentering that area.<\/p>\n
\u201cGates will open for ticket holders at 5am. Guests should make every effort to restrict personal items to a minimum.<\/p>\n
\u201cGuests should expect temporary delays moving around publicly accessible areas inside and outside of the Bethpage Black golf course. These areas may briefly become restricted or frozen spaces before, during or after the event.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.<\/span><\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n <\/span>Fans were busy collecting autographs during a practice round for the golfers at Bethpage.<\/span> Photograph: Harry How\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Members of the public are prohibited from bringing laptops, tablets or range finders into Bethpage on Friday. Items banned in the vicinity of the 1st hole are portable folding chairs, large vapes, torch-style lighters, metal or hard plastic beverage containers and large umbrellas.<\/p>\n Morikawa did his bit to crank up pressure on Europe. \u201cI think it\u2019s kind of tame so far,\u201d said the two-time major winner. \u201cI hope Friday is just absolute chaos. I\u2019m all for it. I think it feeds into who we are as the American team. We want it. We want to use that to our advantage. I think we really have to tap into that.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope they come strong. Watching all these kids, I know they want autographs, but come Friday I hope they go crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n A further layer of Ryder Cup complication has been added by a forecast of thunder storms in this part of Long Island. It is possible neither the USA nor European teams will be able to play practice holes on the eve of competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Justin Rose has vowed Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup stars will not be distracted by the melee around Donald Trump\u2019s visit to Bethpage on Friday, while spectators have been warned to brace themselves for security chaos as a result of the US president\u2019s presence. Europe face broader challenges after the USA team member Collin Morikawa called for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[14361,1348,3284,130,896,743,1056,14360,3217,7179,3213],"class_list":{"0":"post-23530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-absolute","9":"tag-backs","10":"tag-chaos","11":"tag-cup","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-fans","14":"tag-focus","15":"tag-morikawa","16":"tag-rose","17":"tag-ryder","18":"tag-urges"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}