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According to the LIV stans on social media, anyone who does not ride extremely hard for every single LIV player and the tour they play on is a member of what they call the “Corrupt Golf Media” (CGM for short). Trevor Immelman is a member of the CGM by default, his role as colour commentator for CBS automatically making him corrupt because he calls PGA Tour events (this is apparently how it works. We don’t make the CGM rules).
That makes him a key target for the most vocal LIV fans on Golf Twitter, who are practically begging and pleading for anything they can use as a perceived LIV slight during the major championships, the only time we see LIV players and PGA Tour players together anymore.
On Sunday, Immelman got called out by top LIV fanboy Red Harrington for, according to Harrington, incorrectly claiming that Smash GC’s Brooks Koepka just put his new mallet putter into the bag for the PGA Championship. As Harrington tweeted, Immelman getting that simple fact wrong is “everything wrong” with golf media in general, the implication being that card-carrying CGM members don’t pay close enough attention to the happenings on the Saudi-backed tour:
Trevor Immelman claiming that Brooks “put that putter in the bag this week” is a microcosm of everything that’s wrong with this broadcast/coverage as well as the golf media in general. He played that thing in the masters too Trevor, do your job.
— Red Harrington (@RedHarrington44) May 19, 2024
In fairness to Red, Immelman was on the call at the Masters, so he should have known that Koepka, one of the favourites that week, put a new putter in play that week. The problem? The putter he was using at Valhalla was completely different from the one he used at Augusta National, which Immelman pointed out on Monday in a reply to Harrington’s tweet. Look up “owned” in the dictionary and this picture should pop up:
Hey Red. That wasn’t a claim, it’s fact. Brooks used a new putter at the PGA with a totally different neck to the one he used at the Masters. I spoke to his caddie and coach on the putting green on Wednesday. Pay attention. pic.twitter.com/384FgpeVIR
— Trevor Immelman (@TrevorImmelman) May 20, 2024
Woof. That “pay attention” is about as big of a mic drop as it gets. What a tough scene.
It should be noted that Red, unlike 99.9 percent of the LIV army of Golf Twitter, is actually a sensible dude and not a faceless egg who constantly engages in ad hominem attacks with people he disagrees with. It came as no surprise that he took this one like a champ:
Thanks for the clarification Trevor. I actually consider you one of the more knowledgeable on the broadcast which is why I was so dumbfounded that you’d get something like that wrong, which I now see you didn’t. Others have pointed that out and admittedly you are correct. I left…
— Red Harrington (@RedHarrington44) May 20, 2024
Probably should have stopped after “which I now see you didn’t,” but ya live and ya learn. Chalk this one up as another dub for the fictional CGM.
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