Poulter: – Det var en skandale

Ian Poulter har meldt sig i koret over spillere, som brokker sig over greens under US Open.
Flere har brokket sig over de ujævne greens, og bl.a. var Sergio Garcia meget kritisk efter første runde.
FedExCup vinderen Billy Horschel sagde, at han havde mistet respekten for USGA, mens Rory McIlroy sagde, at det ikke ville gøre ham noget, hvis man ventede 20 år med at komme tilbage til Chambers Bay. Til den tid er McIlroy 46 år, og så vil han nok ikke deltage…
– USGA løj om standen af greens
I et langt indlæg og med et billede af greens på Instagram erkender Poulter, at han ikke spillede godt nok til at kunne spille med om sejren, men han anklager USGA for at lyve om standen af greens, da de sagde at standen var god, mens de reelt var meget dårlige.
– Det var ikke en dårlig golfbane, for den var god og spilbar. Men greens var ikke spilbare. Hvis det havde været en almindelig PGA Tour turnering, så havde mange spillere trukket sig og rejst hjem om onsdagen, men det gør man ikke til en major, skriver Poulter og fortsætter:
– Det var simpelthen de dårligste greens, jeg har set på nogen tour i alle de år jeg har spillet. US Open fortjener bedre end det.
– Undskyld til tilskuerne
Ian Poulter undskylder også overfor de mange fans, som havde betalt mange penge for en billet, men havde svært ved at se spillet, da de generelt stod i bakkerne ret langt fra hullerne.
Efter en finalerunde i +7 blev Poulter nr. 54 i +11.
— Læs også: Drama da Spieth vandt US Open
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I look forward to congratulating the 2015 US Open Champion very soon, I simply didn’t play well enough to be remotely close. This is not sour grapes or moaning or any of that crap. It simply the truth. Mike Davis the head of the @USGA unfortunately hasn’t spoke the truth about the conditions of the greens. I feel very sorry for the hundreds of greens staff who spent countless hours leading into this week and this week doing there best to have it the best they could and I thank them for that. But look at the picture. This was the surface we had to putt on. It is disgraceful that the @USGA hasn’t apologized about the greens they simply have said. “we are thrilled the course condition this week”. It wasn’t a bad golf course, In fact it played well and was playable. What wasn’t playable were the green surfaces. If this was a regular PGA tour event lots of players would have withdrawn and gone home on Wednesday, but players won’t do that for a major. They were simply the worst most disgraceful surface I have ever seen on any tour in all the years I have played. The US Open deserves better than that. And the extra money that they have earn’t this year from @FoxSports, they could easily have relayed the greens so we could have had perfect surfaces. Simply not good enough and deeply disappointing for a tournament of this magnitude. I don’t like it when people lie on camera to try and save face. And to all you fans that paid good money to try and watch us play golf but couldn’t see anything on most holes because it wasn’t possible to stand on huge slopes or see around stands, I apologize and I’m sorry you wasted your money traveling to be disappointed. I hope we all learn something moving forward to not have these problems in the future. Happy Fathers Day.

Et billede slået op af Ian Poulter (@ianjamespoulter) den 21. Jun 2015 kl. 6:13 PDT