Lee Westwood had a miserable finish to the PGA Championship this weekend finishing tied for 33rd, 13 shots behind the winner. But the shots he took on the course weren’t as bad as the one’s he took off of it towards his critics.
It started off innocent enough as one user told him via Twitter to “learn how to putt” to which Westwood responded, “will you get a life first?”
Another person asked if someone had hacked his account saying, “drink doesn’t solve anything!” and Westwood tweeted, “oh it does! Plenty!”
It got worse than that with Westwood, who has close to 600,000 followers on the social media site, tweeted a bunch of things that he later deleted. He seemed to be enjoying it.
“I love slagging people back! Had enough of sitting there taking it. Bring it on!” Westwood wrote.
According to The Guardian, who had linked to the tweets prior to them being deleted, some of the non-PG-rated tweets Westwood wrote:
“Just sick of negative a–holes sat behind a keyboard with a pitiful like mate !thats all!”
“Like I give a f— what the haters say! That’s life! Some people will always be just a little bit better and work just a little bit harder”
“not my decent followers, of course. Just the p—s that should be locked up by the twitter police.”
“Ahhh just when I’m in the mood the haters all go quiet! They must have the porn on!”
“Obviously didn’t like a bit back at em! P—–“
Westwood did apologize Monday morning via Twitter, noting that his account wasn’t hacked and he said some things that he shouldn’t have.
“Sincere apologies to my sponsors and true followers for my earlier comments,” Westwood wrote.