Golfer Lee Westwood had a miserable finish to the PGA Championship this past weekend, finishing tied for 33rd place, 13 shots behind winner Jason Dufner. But the shots Westwood took on the course weren’t as bad as the ones he took off of it in response to his critics.
It started innocently enough after one user told Westwood via Twitter to “learn how to putt,” to which the 40-year-old Brit responded, “will you get a life first?”
Another person tweeted to ask if someone had hacked his account saying, “drink doesn’t solve anything!” and Westwood tweeted, “oh it does! Plenty!”
It got worse. Westwood, who has close to 600,000 followers on the social media site, tweeted a bunch of comments 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 tweeted.
According to The Guardian, which had linked to the tweets prior to their deletion, here are 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 apologized yesterday morning via Twitter, noting his account wasn’t hacked and admitting he had said some things he shouldn’t have.
“Sincere apologies to my sponsors and true followers for my earlier comments,” Westwood tweeted.