Rory McIlroy believes United States captain Keegan Bradley should have done more to stop the abuse from the home fans at last year’s Ryder Cup.

After strong performances on the opening two days, Europe held on for a 15-13 win at Bethpage Black to become the first away team to win the trophy since 2012.

However, strong abuse from the home fans in New York, which included a drink being thrown as McIlroy’s wife, Erica, began to take the headlines over the brilliant golf from Europe.

There was also some tension between the European players and the US caddies as the hosts continued to fall behind in proceedings.

Although some US players tried to calm the crowd down, McIlroy insisted that it should have been team captain Bradley who did more during the event.

“We knew going to New York that we were going to get a lot of stick, a lot of abuse,” said McIlroy, while appearing on The Overlap.

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“Look, I don't care if people are saying whatever they're saying to me.

“Erica, my wife, would say she's a grown woman, she's strong, she can handle that. But then when it starts to get into your family, I heard stuff about my daughter that I couldn't even repeat here. It's horrific.

“Keegan and I have talked about this. You have to play into the home-field advantage, absolutely.

“But during the competition on Friday night and Saturday night, after the stuff that we heard on the course, there was an opportunity for either Keegan or some of the team-mates to be like: 'Let's just calm down here. Let's try to play this match in the right spirit.'

“Some of them did that, but obviously Keegan had the biggest platform of the week in being the captain. I feel like he could have said something on that Friday or Saturday night, and he didn't.”