Sporting a white pullover and visor with seven different sponsors' logos visible, Ian Poulter didn't just answer reporters' postround questions at the British Open, he leaned hard into them. Poulter, always combative, had just come off the course after finishing out a -3 round, his first at an Open Championship since making the leap to the breakaway LIV Golf tour. The round included a spectacular 160-foot eagle putt for the Ryder Cup legend.
"Purposely haven't looked at all. So I don't want to know. You can tell me, I'm not going to listen," he said."I'm here to play golf. This could probably be my last Open Championship at St Andrews. So I'm trying to enjoy it despite the questioning. I'm staying out of the way. I'm not reading social media. I just want to play golf, right? I can only do my job. If I listen to a lot of nonsense, then I'm going to get distracted.
"I respect everybody's opinions," he said."Again, for me it was the best decision for me at that point in time and still is." "I think that I couldn't be more excited and ecstatic with where I'm at," he said."I love the events. I get to have golf in my life and competitive golf in my life on a scale that is fun, exciting, different, and lets me play and compete but still do the things outside that I want to do. I've got a nice trip lined up after this and things that I haven't been able to do in the past. So, no, I couldn't be happier.
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