Tyrrell Hatton tells hilarious story about how he celebrated qualifying for the Ryder Cup
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This tale about Tyrrell Hatton’s booze-fueled night with Ryder Cup and LIV Golf teammate Jon Rahm is an all-timer…
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and Tyrrell Hatton grossly oversharing during an interview.
The Englishman returns to Wentworth this week as one of 11 Ryder Cup players in the BMW PGA Championship field as the fine-tuning for Bethpage begins.
Hatton made Luke Donald’s team automatically, despite playing in just five qualifying events, and it was actually his captain who gave him the good news.
“Qualifying for the team automatically was one of my main goals for this year,” he explained. “I knew going into the [Dubai] Desert Classic that I was going to have that week and the four majors, so I was going to have five events to earn enough points to be an automatic, and from my three previous Ryder Cups of always making the team automatically, I wanted to keep that going.
“I thought I had blown that chance after the Sunday I had at The Open. But then Luke called me on the Sunday night of [LIV Golf] Indy, which was the end of the second FedEx [Cup Playoffs] event, to say that the guys weren’t earning points [at the Tour Championship] in Atlanta, and I’d actually made the team automatically.
“That was a very nice phone call to receive. I was over the moon, to be honest.”
And, with his European and LIV Golf teammate Jon Rahm having just won the season-long individual title and all the riches that brings, Hatton certainly made sure to celebrate in style.
“We had a bit of a tear-up,” he smiled. “Yeah, that was a messy night.”
Pushed for details, he added: “If you want to know, I’ll tell you.
“I think that if you saw the room that we just sat in drinking, you’d be like, ‘What are you doing?’ But it ended up being fun. Well, I fell asleep at the table and then I ended up getting woken up and everyone had basically left. It just shows I was good craic at the end of the night, anyway.
“When I got back into the room, I fell across the bed sideways, and face down in that position, and then I had woken myself up throwing up in that position. And I had then fallen back asleep in that position, and then as I’d woken up, I had gotten sick all down my arms, both sides, all down my shirt.
“I get off the bed and walk around to the bathroom, look in the mirror, and I’ve got sick all over my face, all in my beard, in my bed. How I set an alarm to make a flight in a few hours’ time, I don’t know.
“But then waking up in a slightly more sober state was horrendous, and having to clean up that. I ended up calling [wife] Emily [and saying] ‘I don’t know what to do.’ I was rushing to make the room somewhat acceptable before leaving.
“I ended up stripping in the bed, leaving some cash and a note, saying I was really sorry, I was sick in the bed in the night, please throw it in the trash. I feel like I did the right thing but obviously in a pretty bad state.”
So what on earth did they drink to get him in that state?
“Well, I had like six glasses of wine at dinner,” Hatton recalled. “Then I had a double gin and tonic, drunk that at a very normal rate, and then Jon was deciding what he wanted and he said Disaronno Sours, and I was like, ‘Perfect, go on then!’ They go down very easily. And then I was starting the chant of basically getting someone to ‘down it’, which then every cocktail that then followed was a shot.
“So we then ran out of Disaronno Sour. The guy at the bar made some hazelnut sour which wasn’t great and there was a few of them. Then there was a margarita and then there was a strawberry vodka thing.
“God, it was aggressive. It was horrible. But I mean, it was funny at the time.”
And are there any plans to recreate that scene in New York should the Europeans leave the Bethpage cauldron having successfully defended their title?
“I don’t ever want to get to that state again to be honest,” Hatton joked.
“I’d like to think that we would celebrate pretty well, and there is a good chance I will be throwing up. But hopefully I’m not like falling asleep and I can enjoy most of the night with everyone.”
It certainly wouldn’t be the first time Hatton has been “shouting at the toilet” following a Ryder Cup victory, as he found out at Le Golf National seven years ago.
“It happens quite often when I drink too much,” he sighed. “Some people just aren’t sick but I guess I’m one of those people that it just has to come out.”
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Tyrrell Hatton told a rather entertaining story about how he celebrated making the Ryder Cup team.
