November 22, 2004
WHO'S STUPID?:
Titleist ends its deal with Casey in wake of anti-American comments: Less than a week after Paul Casey's controversial comments became public, Titleist has decided to sever their relationship. (PGA.com, 11.20.2004)
The fallout from Paul Casey's anti-American comments has taken a new and potentially expensive twist, with Titleist, his club and ball sponsor, announcing that it will not renew his contract next season.Casey, who with fellow Englishman Luke Donald goes into the final round of the $4 million WGC-World Cup on Sunday one shot behind leader Spain, told a journalist after September's European Ryder Cup win: "We properly hate them."
He also said Americans have a "tendency to sort of wind people up" and questioned the wisdom of Tom Lehman's appointment as next United States captain. [...]
His views were made to a Sunday Times journalist in the course of an hour-long interview, but were then turned into a tabloid headline: "Americans are stupid. I hate them." [...]
Casey went to college in Arizona, lives in Scottsdale and plans to play the PGA Tour in the United States on a full-time basis in 2005.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 22, 2004 02:46 PM
The softheads on the left will say he is being censored. He is now the fat Dixie Chick with a 9 iron.
Posted by: pchuck at November 22, 2004 03:16 PMSounds like a cowboy. (shouldn't penalize him)
Posted by: h-man at November 22, 2004 03:23 PMMost golfers are very conservative.
The PGA tour probably voted for Bush 99.5%. The Euros are just tired of American hoo-rah after beating them so many times in the Ryder Cup.
Consider that if Langer makes his putt at Kiawah in 1991 and Rocca makes with Davis Love missing on the 17th at the Belfry in 1993, the US would not have won the Cup since 1983.
Posted by: jim hamlen at November 22, 2004 03:59 PMA "tendency to sort of wind people up"?
Don't you wear that as a badge of honour?
Posted by: Peter B at November 22, 2004 06:16 PMCasey should have his green card pulled.
Posted by: Bart at November 22, 2004 06:25 PMWell, with Scott Simpson having been a nonentity for--what, ten plus years?--I'd imagine Casey will be pretty lonely on tour and likely will want to voluntarily turn in his green card.
Unless he wins a few. You know, purses being so much larger over here and all...
Posted by: jsmith at November 22, 2004 11:52 PM