Westwood

Can't understand why anyone would waste their time bandying banalities with strangers on something as trivial as Twitter.
Must be some deep psychological lack.

suspect he got hammered after the round

Yes 550k followers so abuse is 1.01

No reason to engage with them at all.

Lee Westwood ‏@WestwoodLee 1h
“@JBeckett23: @WestwoodLee Has someone hacked your account Lee.. drink doesn't solve anything!”oh it does! Plenty!

He's Lucky he doesn't come on here during his final rounds, now that's abuse or maybe he does?

what's the deal with Baker-Finch?

Poor Vivienne

baker finch has been helping him with his putting

Lee Westwood ‏@WestwoodLee 2h
Come on you girly boy trolls! I've only won just over 2 mill on course this year! Need you to keep me entertained a bit longer than this!

Very classy, Lee.

Classy indeed, could you imagine if this was woods doing this global news!

Yes he went from being understandably annoyed to being a complete moron in a short space of time this morning.

the earned 2 million comment to them is a phil taylor comment.dont use twitter but need to go on and see this

Always saw Lee as a self-contained ,together guy.
Has done his image colossal damage here . Must have been totally scuttered -but it's sad stuff really.

if he was a footballer, he'd be on an FA charge.

LJW has issued a statement of apology.

Another fourth round disaster so lets get p!ssed & s l a g off the world

fair play to him.  Must be frustrating and had obviously had a few beers.  **** the haters.

Only thing he has done wrong is apologise.

It's not the most tasteful way to respond to trollers, but he's not abusing or upsetting his normal followers, so no need to say sorry.

Sky or any other media outlet reporting this??

Looks like he is too financially comfortable to excel out of his comfort zone in the majors.

people in sky sports studio and on twitter are allowed to criticise his performance. he obviously cant take it.

most trolls couldn't hit a golf ball past the ladies tee

Lee is ok,a lot of pressure on him

He's entitled to give some back in my opinion

p.s.if your reading this lee,I never started the lay thread

Hearts so it's OK to go round shagging the life out of anything with a pulse but not OK to respond to continual abuse - granted he may have gone overboard but who wouldn't if you were getting slaughtered week in week out. What gives morons the right to abuse people - good luck to him I say. Can't see it but would love him to win one and be able to stick two fingers up.

In reply to the last post, you do make some very valid points,  but I have never understood why anyone feels the need to have a Twitter account in the first place, telling the world your thoughts & views often on an hourly basis opens one up to all sorts of abuse to a point where it is almost self inflicted imo, if you don't want to be followed by nutters don't post what is often a load of c r a p in the first place.

twitter accounts make the tabloids jobs so much easier,wouldn't be surprised if they trolled

Aug 13, 2013 -- 8:59AM, tompricho wrote:

Hearts so it's OK to go round shagging the life out of anything with a pulse but not OK to respond to continual abuse - granted he may have gone overboard but who wouldn't if you were getting slaughtered week in week out. What gives morons the right to abuse people - good luck to him I say. Can't see it but would love him to win one and be able to stick two fingers up.

in fairness this is a different situation, tiger isn't online slagging people , if lee cant hack it he should close his online accounts . tiger got slated for a long time about his personal life , and continues to.

\true but I think it's good that they share things with their fsns and to be honest if you were in the best 100 in the world at your job how would you feel about useless no nothings slating you - I would do as you say and close the accounts so I think it's brave but can see your point

barry lane closed his

I didn't mind the little outburst - it makes him seem a little more human - and let's be honest almost everyone blows a gasket at some time or other.

Worryingly there are more keyboard warriors out there these days than golfing hacks

how many followers did Barry lane have?

I lost £500 laying him a match bet f couples

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I think that the guy has made a complete pr1ck of himself. Embarrassing, to say the least.

Ranting on about how much money he's got. Deary me.

Nothing at all wrong in getting drunk, and being pi$$ed off with another poor performance, but for an experienced world class sportsman to let himself down in public, when he didn't need to, is bad form. Very bad form.

If you're going to get drunk, and be pi$$ed off, then do it in private.

Why these guys even want to have twitter is something I just can't fathom out. They spend half of their lives, whilst doing their job, with a television camera shoved up their noses, and ar$es, and then decide to spend what little private time they have to broadcast to all and sundry.

Peculiar behaviour.

The idiots that hurl abuse at these sporting stars are exactly that. Idiots, but why open yourself up to it ?