Indonesia Wants Me
Social media is very much part of our daily lives theses days, be it twitter or face book, does anyone even use Bebo anymore.
From a golfing point of view twitter lets us, the fans get access to players we have never had before.
Unfortunately there have been casualties along the way, Paul Lawrie and Sergio Garcia both deleted there accounts because of numpties, others just use it as an advertising tool. But generally speaking twitter has been good for golf.
Take Lee Westwood, now I must confess I am a Westwood fan ever since his comeback win in 2003 at the BMW.
What he proved then was he was a fighter and had guts, I admire that.
The refreshing thing about him on twitter is his outright honesty, no PR politically correct rubbish, he just gives it to us straight.
Last week Lee won the Indonesian Masters, an Asian Tour event. Now when Lee won it last year it was a co sanctioned event with the European Tour, for reasons I don’t know it was not this year.
So a good win for the world number 3 ?? You would think so.
Instead of congratulations the win had been met by criticism to the World No 3.
This weekend we had a European Tour and a PGA tour event, but because Lee was the only OWGR top ten player in action this weekend the Asian event seemed to attract more OWGR points. Effectively the guys finishing behind Westwood will take a huge leap in the OWGR.
This seems to have gone down very badly on the other side of the pond, especially with certain American media outlets.
When Tiger Woods or other PGA stars have travelled to lesser, no offence to the Asian Tour, events and received appearance money not a word was said.
Now last time I checked neither Lee Westwood or ISM controlled the OWGR, if they do I missed that memo.
Are the OWGR flawed ? Well in my opinion yes.
Do they need overhauled ? Yes, but that’s in the pipeline.
What I cant understand why is Lee Westwood being attacked for being nothing more that what he is, a professional golfer earning a living.
When the US PGA ruled the roost and American players filled the top ten in the OWGR playing overseas was reduced to the Open Championship for many, in fact the vast majority.
Golf is a global game and needs to be treated so.
We continually hear the phrase “grow golf”, seeing world, yes world, stars playing events world wide does this.
The attacks on both Westwood and ISM are unwarranted and uncalled for.
As for the appearance money argument, well quite frankly what argument.
Let me put it to you this way.
Imagine you are a professional golfer?
Someone comes to you and offers you a six figure sum plus your expenses to appear in an event in, say, Dubai. As a professional are you going to turn it down?
I honestly doubt that you would.
Social media is very much part of our daily lives theses days, be it twitter or face book, does anyone even use Bebo anymore.
From a golfing point of view twitter lets us, the fans get access to players we have never had before.
Unfortunately there have been casualties along the way, Paul Lawrie and Sergio Garcia both deleted there accounts because of numpties, others just use it as an advertising tool. But generally speaking twitter has been good for golf.
Take Lee Westwood, now I must confess I am a Westwood fan ever since his comeback win in 2003 at the BMW.
What he proved then was he was a fighter and had guts, I admire that.
The refreshing thing about him on twitter is his outright honesty, no PR politically correct rubbish, he just gives it to us straight.
So a good win for the world number 3 ?? You would think so.
Instead of congratulations the win had been met by criticism to the World No 3.
This weekend we had a European Tour and a PGA tour event, but because Lee was the only OWGR top ten player in action this weekend the Asian event seemed to attract more OWGR points. Effectively the guys finishing behind Westwood will take a huge leap in the OWGR.
This seems to have gone down very badly on the other side of the pond, especially with certain American media outlets.
When Tiger Woods or other PGA stars have travelled to lesser, no offence to the Asian Tour, events and received appearance money not a word was said.
Now last time I checked neither Lee Westwood or ISM controlled the OWGR, if they do I missed that memo.
Are the OWGR flawed ? Well in my opinion yes.
Do they need overhauled ? Yes, but that’s in the pipeline.
What I cant understand why is Lee Westwood being attacked for being nothing more that what he is, a professional golfer earning a living.
When the US PGA ruled the roost and American players filled the top ten in the OWGR playing overseas was reduced to the Open Championship for many, in fact the vast majority.
Golf is a global game and needs to be treated so.
We continually hear the phrase “grow golf”, seeing world, yes world, stars playing events world wide does this.
The attacks on both Westwood and ISM are unwarranted and uncalled for.
As for the appearance money argument, well quite frankly what argument.
Imagine you are a professional golfer?
Someone comes to you and offers you a six figure sum plus your expenses to appear in an event in, say, Dubai. As a professional are you going to turn it down?
I honestly doubt that you would.
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