Nick Faldo walks back his Twitter shot at Rickie Fowler
"I am a Rickie fan, always have been, always will be."
Sir Nick Faldo caught a lot of flack when he tweeted earlier this week about the struggling Rickie Fowler.
In response to an article about how Fowler could miss the cut for making the 2021 Masters, Faldo tweeted, “Good news is if he misses the Masters he can shoot another six commercials that week.”
It felt unnecessary to hit the golfer while he was down, and Faldo followed it up with a “Motivation!” tweet.
On Thursday, he walked back his comments in a video.
“Number one, I’m a Brit. So we only roast the ones we really like,” he said. “I am a Rickie fan, always have been, always will be, what he does for the game’s fantastic, and I wish him all the best. Like everybody, we want him to find his game as soon as possible.”
He spoke about the motivation Fowler has gotten in the past from being called “overrated,” and Faldo said years later he spoke with Fowler.
“Hey, I need to give you a bit of needle, mate, to motivate you,” he remembers saying. The response, per Faldo?
“Bring it on.”
OK. Faldo said he wouldn’t dig so deep, and in this case, I think it’s a good call.