s the teed off on Thursday morning at , 's most recent tour stop in Houston was making headlines for a much different reason. LIV pro went viral for his heated exchange with a fan, dropping that ironically summed up LIV's motto: " ." Ian Poulter curses out a golf fan on LIV Tour Poulter told the fan to be quiet in stereotypically polite British fashion mixed with his prickly attitude: "I suggest you shut the f*ck up.
" According to Drunk By The Turn, the account that published the video on X, formerly , the same , with the video only capturing the 48-year-old's reaction to the third incident of unsportsmanlike behavior. "Next time he's out," the Englishman said pointedly toward course security. It was a bad look on both sides for the , for allowing the behavior and for the response by one of its biggest names.
Poulter, a 5-time winner with to his name, payday. Major update on PGA-LIV merger ahead of US Open The dueling golf leagues have been inching toward a for a year since they reached an agreement in June 2023 to unite. More progress was made in the days between Poulter's incident and the start of the US Open, with according to Alan Shipnuck, the biographer of .
Poulter would leave a lot of money behind, but a potential merger could at least be his ticket to leaving this pestering fan behind..