Monday, September 29, 2008
Poulter Barge Was Accident – Kim

It may have gone unnoticed by some of you whilst you were glued to the Ryder Cup coverage but if you sky+’d any of the coverage, just look back to when Ian Poulter walked off the 14th tee during the second round.

As Poulter walks away from the tee box, a cheerleading Anthony Kim drops a shoulder, barging Poulter on his way up the 14th fairway. Kim says he ran into Poulter by accident and that he was looking away when the two bumped but Poulter believes Kim was acting unprofessionally.

“As opposed to walking around me as I was walking off the tee, he decided to drop his right shoulder into me," Poulter told overseas outlets. "You don't need that when you're playing. It's not what you'd expect from a fellow professional."

But when Anthony Kim was asked about it, there wasn’t much mistaking the message. “Listen, I was going to bump somebody, you’re going to know I’m going to bump you. A lot of people asked me about this, but I was going over to see what – Kenny had his a shot to about a foot and a half, and I was going over there. I wasn’t even paying attention, and I look up and Ian has just bounced off me.”

“I wasn’t out there to bump anybody," Kim said. "That's not the spirit of the Ryder Cup. This isn't football. We're not out there doing that. I'm sorry he took it personally."



Whether Poulter accepts the apology we’ll have to wait and see. With Kim also winding up Sergio Garcia, he’s losing a lot of friends on the European Tour but when he’s in the form that he’s currently in, he’s probably not that bothered.


How we'd like to see it settled.


9/29/2008 6:06:55 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [3] 


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