Golf's Eamon Dunphy tears into McIlroy

Spread · 29-07-2011 12:32pm #1

Failed golf pro and jumped up commentator Jay Townsend tears into McIlroy before being put in his place. Now American commentators are up in arms against the Open winner because he dare to criticise one of their colleagues. Americans are not very good at judging zeitgeist. Discuss

4zn76tysfajdxp · 29-07-2011 12:33pm

What an earth are you talking about?

amacca · 29-07-2011 12:33pm

Spread wrote: »

Failed gol pro and jumped up commentator Jay Townsend tears into McIlroy before being put in his place. Now American commentators are up in arms against the Open winner because he dare to criticise one of their colleagues. Americans are not very good at judging zeitgeist. Discuss

linky?

chin_grin · 29-07-2011 12:33pm

Slow news day?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 29-07-2011 12:36pm

Golf has an Eamon Dunphy now? Thouht the football one was enough...

EDIT - You mean the Eamon Dunphy of the gold world...? Could have made that clearer, tbh.

Spread · 29-07-2011 12:36pm

http://www.independent.ie/sport/golf/mcilroy-labelled-a-spoilt-brat-after-spat-with-commentator-2834716.html

ILikeBananas · 29-07-2011 12:36pm

Yet the greatest victim of an ill-judged and ill-tempered retaliatory strike inevitably is McIlroy himself after he transformed a minor spat on an obscure Twitter feed into a major media crisis.

Townsend certainly had been cutting in his remarks about McIlroy and Fitzgerald during the live TV broadcast on the Golf Channel and was even more brutal in his follow-up Tweets.

"It was some of the worst course management I have ever seen beyond Under 10 boys' golf competition," wrote Townsend.

This stinging rebuke would be described later by McIlroy as "the straw which broke the camel's back.

He added: "He's been having a go every now and again since JP and I started working together in mid-2008 and this was the first time I've responded."

Still that cannot justify McIlroy's petulant and puerile riposte.

"Shut up," he tweeted angrily, adding: "You're a commentator and a failed golfer. Your opinion means nothing."

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Dravokivich · 29-07-2011 12:37pm

Swingers forum ---->

rockmongrel · 29-07-2011 12:37pm

Wut?

amacca · 29-07-2011 12:37pm

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Golf has an Eamon Dunphy now? Thouht the football one was enough...

Theres an Eamonn Dunphy for every situation.

Micky Dolenz · 29-07-2011 12:39pm

Being discussed in the golf forum. Fancy that.

Golf's Eamon Dunphy tears into McIlroy

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