Certainly one of golf’s bitter rivalries took one other flip, as a response to a graphic on social media led Ian Poulter to accuse Billy Horschel of requesting $45 million (A$66m) to affix LIV Golf.
The change started when Poulter responded to a put up about golf ball information on X, the social platform previously referred to as Twitter.
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Poulter appeared perplexed at a few of the statistics on supply and revealed his swing velocity of 115 mph (185 km/h) wasn’t sufficient to hold the ball to the distances proven within the graph.
Nonetheless, Horschel additionally took to social media in an try to disprove Poulter’s swing velocity declare and pointed to information from the official PGA Tour web site.
On the PGA Tour web site, Poulter’s common swing velocity was listed as 110.04 mph within the 2020/21 season and 110.53 mph within the 2021/22 season.
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Horschel additionally added the caption: “So you’re a type of guys that over exaggerate their membership head velocity.”
However Poulter wouldn’t let his long-time antagonist get the final chuckle and took intention on the truth Horschel supposedly requested for a lofty sum of cash to affix the Saudi-backed LIV Golf.
Poulter was a part of the preliminary wave of stars from the PGA Tour to defect to LIV as he inked an estimated $20 million deal to affix the rival circuit.