Rory McIlroy Calls "Scoreboard" In Petty Twitter Exchange

Savage Twitter beef erupted Friday night between, umm, golfers? What?

That’s former PGA champion and occasional Champion’s Tour participant Steve Elkington subtweeting Rory McIlroy with I guess what passes for a burn in the staid, wet-bread world of professional golfing—McIlroy had just gotten bounced from the U.S. Open, and Elkington is chalking it up to effort.

McIlroy was having none of it:

Doing the Golf Twitter version of pointing at the scoreboard and/or making it rain evidently rubbed Elkington the wrong way:

One thing you can’t do when trading barbs on social media is fuck up the spelling. That’s easy money, and Rory is, after all, a money guy:

Cha-ching!