Lee Westwood has zero major championships, but winning seven Ryder Cup trophies in nine tries affords the British ex-pat a platform from which to scoff at the Americans’ latest attempt -- via a high-profile blue ribbon panel -- to wrest the cup from the Europeans.
Lee Westwood leads Euro Twitter attack on U.S. Ryder Cup task force
Lee Westwood derides the U.S. Ryder Cup task force with an amusing Twitter blast at the PGA of America’s desperate ploy for winning at Hazletine in 2016.
Ross Kinnaird
Westwood, along with Euro teammate Ian Poulter, went to Twitter Tuesday to share his views on the PGA of America’s newly formed task force that includes superstars Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. Westwood’s tweets received a bit of blowback, with some followers pointing out the obvious lack of grand slam titles on the Englishman’s resume as well as his move from the U.K. to Florida.
What a massive pat on the back & confidence booster it is for Europe that team USA needs to create a Ryder Cup task force!!!
— Lee Westwood (@WestwoodLee) October 14, 2014 Haha. A lot of your responses are fairly predictable in attacking my individual achievements.
— Lee Westwood (@WestwoodLee) October 14, 2014 "@buckle_this: @WestwoodLee didn't you buy a house in the US?"ha! What's that got to do with trying to win the Ryder cup? Moron!
— Lee Westwood (@WestwoodLee) October 14, 2014 Just for the record my first tweet this morning wasn't designed to wind up or act as bait. Was just saying, look how far the euros have come
— Lee Westwood (@WestwoodLee) October 14, 2014 But after all the responses I'm now going to set up a task force to help me pull the net up onto my boat!!!
— Lee Westwood (@WestwoodLee) October 14, 2014 Happy Tuesday to all my career advisors & rest assured I'll keep working hard to win that major! Lov ya! pic.twitter.com/GoZUejhMwd
— Lee Westwood (@WestwoodLee) October 14, 2014 Poulter and Rory McIlroy got in on the fun. The hero of the Miracle at Medinah in 2012 cheekily typed his jibe, referring to the Americans’ two Ryder Cup wins since 1995, while the world No. 1 was content to get his digs in via a retweet of the Associated Press’ Doug Ferguson’s wry observation.
I thought it was 0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0 @dougferguson405 Just saw the release on the big Ryder Cup Task Force. The secret password: Hindsight.
— Ian Poulter (@IanJamesPoulter) October 14, 2014 If the PGA of America couldn't get Paul Azinger for the big Ryder Cup task force, did they at least try to get Paul McGinley?
— Doug Ferguson (@dougferguson405) October 14, 2014 The next Ryder Cup may be two years away, but if Twitter humor counted for anything, the Euros would already be up at least 3-0.
