Pro Golfer Tweet O' The Week, Vol. 1

The flood of fascinating, deep and almost-malaprops from pro golf's finest Tweeters has forced my hand: introducting, the Tweet O' The Week.

Ian Poulter, who displays a Brunoesque love for fashion and his own hair, also has captured Bruno's Tweeting vocabulary:

Comments

[Rich]

Its a bit sad when ignorance is exposed. Come on Ian .... take a little care

[Farmingdale]

What a tool. Bummed this stuff with Poulter didn't hit before the Open, would have gotten polluted and heckled him mercilessly so a to enforce the stereotype that Geoff propagates...

[Hawkeye]

He can't have spent too much time in a classroom. A great insight into the world where pink pants and spiky hair is fashionable, and where I.P. is the world #2.

[chico]

Hawkeye-how dare you criticise the great Poultergod?!I thought I had the world rights to comment on the over-hyped,over-blown arrogant peacock but it seems I am not alone!

[sergio]

there is never an excuse for poor grammar - but come on guys - pink pants, murse and frosted tips aside, poults at least brings some PERSONALITY to his respective tours. which is sadly lacking.

[Geoff]

sergio,
No argument there, he is different and a breath of fresh air. It's the groove whining that probably temporarily blinded some of us.

[Ronald Montesano]

Geoff, you prig. Don't you have better things to do than measure grammatical penises? Spelling mistakes bug me, too, but I don't blog on them.

[thusgone]

i agree that poulter seems to think he is a more accomplished golfer than than reality would seem to justify. but his job is to win golf tournaments, not produce grammatically correct media publications. and geoff, with your serial apostrophe violations, you should remember the admonition about people who live in glass houses. . . just sayin'.

[thusgone]

. . . besides, it's the thought that counts, right?

[The Devil's Arsehole]

I'm not sure that falls under "grammar". It's either more a mistake of spelling or a misunderstanding of the actual name of the Holiday.

Not only that, but Independence day is defined as: "An Independence Day is an annual celebration commemorating the anniversary of a nation's assumption of independent statehood." So with that in mind you could see how one could come up with "independents day" - so we're basically down to a spelling error.

He obviously has mistaken "Independence" for "Independents" and I'm not really sure why so many of you think that he should know the history of the United States. It has been proven time and again that Americans are embarrassingly ignorant of the history and cultures of other countries, including Canada and the UK. So why is it that Poulter should know the correct title of a certain American Holiday?

Hawkeye says he can't have spent too much time in a classroom, but do you really think all they teach in classrooms around the world is American History? I think if we quizzed a group of American Tour Pros on the history of the UK and it's list of Holidays, we would get some laughable answers for sure.!!

[sergio]

the devil's arse:

your vs. you are vs. you're is grammar, not spelling.

[The Devil's Arsehole]

quite right sergio. I missed that.