Rory McIlroy tells fan to ‘shut the f*** up’ over caddie dig

Rory McIlroy reportedly told a fan who heckled him with a dig at his caddie Harry Diamond to “shut the f*** up.”

According to golf insider Dan Rapaport, McIlroy was jeered by an unruly spectator after missing a birdie putt during the final round of the Genesis Invitational.

“Blame your caddie,” the fan allegedly shouted after the Northern Irishman’s ten-foot effort slid by on the par-3 third. Rapaport claims that McIlroy then immediately fired back at the fan with his choice words.

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McIlroy had an outside chance heading into his final round of the $20million Signature Event five shots off Patrick Rodgers’ lead, but failed to get the quick start he required at Torrey Pines.

And this flashpoint came in the midst of an increasingly unsatisfactory weekend for the four-time major champion.

In his two-over 74 on Saturday, McIlroy recorded his worst PGA Tour putting performance in over a decade, losing almost four strokes compared to the rest of the field on the greens.

Those frustrations carried over into Sunday, though his putting woes, of course, had nothing to do with his caddie as suggested by the mindless spectator.

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McIlroy has long defended Diamond, his close friend and long-term looper, especially after criticism was aimed at the caddie following his excruciating near miss at the 2024 US Open.

“Just because Harry is not as vocal or loud with his words as other caddies, it doesn’t mean that he doesn’t say anything and that he doesn’t do anything,” McIlroy said at last year’s Genesis Scottish Open.

“These guys that criticise when things don’t go my way, they never say anything good when things do go my way. At the end of the day, they are not there. They are in the arena. They are not the ones hitting the shots and making the decisions.

“Someone said to me once, if you would never take advice from these people, you would never take their criticisms, either.”