Rory McIlroy won’t be playing this weekend at the U.S. Open. He’s headed home early after a missing the cut. That’s fine. It’s tough even for the world’s best players to carve up a track like Erin Hills, especially when coming off an injury as McIlroy was this week in Wisconsin.
Rory McIlroy blows Steve Elkington’s bad tweets into deep space with Wikipedia screenshot
Elkington, a former pro golfer turned bad tweeter, was simply destroyed by McIlroy.
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That’s no matter for Twitter, however! The takes must go on. Enter former professional golfer Steve Elkington, who once in a former life won the 1995 PGA Championship. Mostly since that time, he’s been making bad tweets — like this bigoted one about Michael Sam at the NFL Combine that got him disciplined by the PGA Tour.
Anyway, Elk tweeted an extremely Elk thing:
A quick aside on this: Rory has, again, played six times in 2017. He’s battled two minor but lingering injuries. He’s planned a wedding. He’s been in pretty decent form when playing. There’s nothing to indicate he’s bored, etc, etc. I’ve just spent 30 seconds responding to the substance of an Elk tweet while at the U.S. Open on a beautiful Saturday, and I’m mad now.
Rory, responded, as he should:
In the annals of Twitter banter, tweeting a screenshot of your Wikipedia bio with your approximate earnings in the caption is fantastic — 10 of 10, all around. Someone will pay lip service to this with words about how this isn’t humble or some other sanctimonious garbage. Ignore them! This is fantastic! Imagine LeBron James responding to every Twitter idiot stumbling with DRAYMOND BETTER into his mentions with a simple Wikipedia screenshot. It’s good. Sports needs more of this, golf in particular.
But we weren’t done. Elk (dumbly) got off the mat to respond!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand one more from Rory to finish him off:
RIP Elk, who’s been fired out of an airlock into space.
More than anyone in golf, Rory has to continually put up with this kind of terrible takery garbage from all over. I’m here for the coming heel turn after he wins the PGA at Quail Hollow later this year.
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