European Golfers: Where Have the Rules of Trash-Talking Gone?

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Published: February 26, 2011

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There are no formal rules when it comes to trash talking, but if there were, the first rule would undoubtedly be that no athlete can talk the talk until they can walk the walk.

Based on the amount of gibberish coming out of the mouths of Lee Westwood, Rory McIlory and Ian Poulter—directed mostly towards Tiger Woods and the poor state of his game—you’d think that these three men have combined to win 30 majors instead of the zero majors they’ve actually won.

Westwood does most of his trash-talking through Twitter.

Poulter runs his mouth to anyone that will listen, often while wearing a pink pair of pants.

And McIlroy typically goes the media conference route for his trash-talking.

This generation has experienced two truly great golfers and two truly great golfers only: Woods and Phil Mickelson—and even Mickelson probably needs to accomplish more to be considered one of the game’s true greats.

The rest have been and will continue to be members of a mostly uninteresting supporting cast.  

Lee Westwood has won a single golf tournament since November 2009, and his greatest gift to the game thus far might just be exposing a severely flawed World Golf Ranking system that placed a man—Westwood—at No. 1 despite no majors and a single win in the past 15 months.

Poulter has won a single PGA Tour event. And forget winning a major—this guy has only finished in the top 10 at majors three times in his entire career.

Poulter may eventually be considered a great Ryder Cup player, but does anyone know Jack Nicklaus’ Ryder Cup record?

I didn’t think so.

McIlory, although just 21 years old, has only won two events.  He’s still young, you may say, and that’s correct.  But by the age of 21, Woods was winning the Masters by a margin of 12 strokes.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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