Because Steve Elkington likes a good Twitter war, the 51-year-old Aussie chimed in on Michael Sam on Tuesday. Apparently ESPN’s coverage of the openly gay NFL prospect has been too much for the golfer to handle, so he released a series of tweets — one of which was screen-grabbed before he deleted it.
He can try to pretend his idiotic rant never happened, but screen-grabs don’t lie.
Elkington later tweeted at Yahoo Sports golf blogger Shane Bacon, but according to Bacon, he never sent anything Elkington’s way.
@shanebacon I’m for Sam I’m against ESPN telling me he’s gay….
— Steve Elkington (@elkpga) February 25, 2014
Elkington continued his attempt to justify his Sam comment by comparing the situation to “oriental spectators,” wondering why race needed to be pointed out.
It goes back to “a ball hit an oriental spectator”.There’s no oriental spectators..There just spectators..”like m Sam…He’s just an athlete
— Steve Elkington (@elkpga) February 25, 2014
Because Bacon was brought into the ordeal, he asked Elkington why he deleted his derogatory tweet about Sam. When Elkington said it was because the PGA Tour asked him to, Bacon reached out the to the PGA Tour for a comment.
I reached out to Steve Elkington about the controversial tweets he deleted. He told me, “tour asked me to.”
— Shane Bacon (@shanebacon) February 25, 2014
Also, reached out to the PGA Tour for comment and I’m awaiting a response.
— Shane Bacon (@shanebacon) February 25, 2014
Here is the PGA Tour statement on Steve Elkington – “Under our regulations, conduct unbecoming a (cont) http://t.co/BrJXoUDF1S
— Shane Bacon (@shanebacon) February 25, 2014
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