Rory McIlroy has had a nightmare U.S. Open: failing to make the cut by four shots, ending Friday at five-over-par. It meant that, for the first time since the inception of the World Golf Rankings in 1986, the world's top three all missed the cut at a major: Dustin Johnson and Jason Day following McIlroy's suit.
There are extenuating circumstances for Rory: he is coming back from injury, and has played very little golf this year, but he still shipped criticism, most notably from Aussie Steve Elkington, who you probably won't know: he won the US PGA Championship in 1995, along with two Players' Championships.
Elkington claimed that Rory is the most gifted on tour, but is simply bored, hinting that, without the tantalising prospect of defeating Tiger Woods in his pomp, McIlroy has achieved his aims: four majors and a hundred million dollars in the bank.
Rory is so bored playiing golf...without Tiger the threshold is prolly 4 majors with 100mill in bank
— Steve Elkington (@elkpga) June 17, 2017
Nobody more gifted than Rory...
Hes so bored playing golf on tour..— Steve Elkington (@elkpga) June 17, 2017
Rory hit back by pointing out how much he has actually earned:
Naturally, there was a bit of to and fro, with Elkington accusing Rory of being a "money guy":
New you were a money guy
Jack won 18 and never mentioned his total cash..
It was 5 mill https://t.co/4vTFyUpY7p— Steve Elkington (@elkpga) June 17, 2017
It ended in classic 'internet squabble' fashion: Rory corrected Elkington's grammar:
Takes no shit, does our Rory.
Cheers to Balls reader Diarmuid Claffey for the heads-up on this.
