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Golfer violates Tour Twitter rule
When you think of golf pioneers, the mind spans the giants of the game such as Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, and of course, Parker McLachlin. Wait, what? Well, think about it: while Palmer and Woods have both been credited with bringing golf to the masses, neither has been able to do so as directly as McLachlan, who violated PGA Tour policy for a first-ever in-tournament tweet during the final round of the Frys.com Open on Sunday. The post itself wasn't terribly revealing (it read: "Just made birdie on 4. Waiting on 5th tee. First tweet during a tourney round. Don't want to get too used to this!") but it was still enough to elicit a phone call from PGA Tour executive vice president Rick George, who informed an unwitting McLachlan that he was breaking Tour policy.
Parker McLachlin, Hunter Martin/Getty Images
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not that I care, because twitters sucks, but if there`s 1 sport that the athletes could actually afford the luxury of writting stupid self serving posts (like what I am doing at this very moment) it`s gold, no?
chris_thejock
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Yawn.....
Steveo16220 says:…
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Maybe if more players did it waiting on the tee boxes it would speed up these long A-- 5+ hour rounds!!
jdromes
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Holy crap... next thing you know they will ban talking during the tourny
FootballGuru
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Man, golfing heirarchy really are a stuffy bunch huh???
ICEnSoCal
Earthquake Central, CA
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golf and twitters don't mix...
808surfer
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what policy is it exactly breaking. the PGA actually have a twitter policy already
Chunkystools
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i bet if tiger tweeted to say roger fedderrer(crazy spelling) the pga would have making tweets mandatory for every round. Tiger must not tweet
Chunkystools
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I don't think Tiger gives a tweet.
Jonisagolffan
Richmond , MI
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Actually, MacLachlin takes even more time over a shot than Woods (hard to believe, I know).
Remember the last hole of a tourney two years ago where he spent 20 minutes trying figure out if he should lay up on a par 5 or not? The crowd nearly booed his carcass off the course. I think he ended up shooting a triple bogey.
That should have been a learning experience for him right there.
Parker. Could you possibly get your *** in gear or go see a friggin shrink?
Jonisagolffan
Richmond , MI
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Freaking twitter rule??? are you freaking serious?
Bust a move and shove that twit-ter up your *****.
BBQ King
Memphis , TX
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McLachlan that he was breaking Tour policy. shove that twitter where the sun dont shine cause there ant no twitter rule.
BBQ King
Memphis , TX
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So what your saying is he should seek tweetment?
Wingsfan#1
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Wolf Blitzer went on Twitter - they took him off the air in Japan two weeks later. Sigh-oh-gnarl - give Jack his own show, cnn. Twister, Azzbook, Mydisgrace, all make this place look gawd-like.
oldtom in Japan
Hiroshima Come Glow With Us, HS
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Actually, if there's a sport that was made for tweeting, it's golf. So much down time. Or maybe bowling. Well, heck, I guess MLB baseball and NFL football too for that matter.
cjsamms
Honolulu , HI
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