Team USA might be selling Ryder Cup shirts with Rory McIlroy on them

You can see a side-by-side image of the shirt and McIlroy’s pose here.

McIlroy, of course, is from Northern Ireland and one of Team Europe’s most important players at the Ryder Cup. He was asked about the shirt ahead of the DP World Tour’s BMW Championship in England on Tuesday, and he said he is aware of it.

Though McIlroy thinks the silhouette looks more like Adam Scott (another non-American golfer), he admitted he can see the resemblance to his own finishing pose.

“Yeah, it looks a little similar, I don’t know,” McIlroy said with a wry smile.

Neither Ralph Lauren nor the U.S. team have come out and said which golfer was used for the silhouette, which has made fans even more suspicious. It is entirely possible that the people who designed the shirt felt the image of McIlroy worked best and overlooked the fact that McIlroy is part of the other team.

McIlroy was at the center of some serious drama at the last Ryder Cup, so you can expect him to hear plenty of boos at Bethpage Black. There probably will not be many knowledgeable U.S. supporters wearing the T-shirt in question, either.