My Wife Will Not Tell Me My Password

Sometimes, getting married has benefits you don’t even anticipate.  Rory McIlroy admitted to one Wednesday in his pre-Irish Open press conference.
 
Let’s circle back two weeks ago to the US Open.  Rory had just missed the cut at Erin Hills and Steve Elkington, as he is known to do, offered his unsolicited opinion on Twitter:

Rory is so bored playiing golf…without Tiger the threshold is prolly 4 majors with 100mill in bank — Steve Elkington (@elkpga)

Rory came right back with this response:

More like 200mil… not bad for a “bored” 28 year old … plenty more where that came from--Rory McIlroy (@McilroyRory)
 
More followed:
 
New you were a money guy Jack won 18 and never mentioned his total cash.. It was 5 mill
— Steve Elkington (@elkpga) 
 
More like 200mil… not bad for a "bored" 28 year old… plenty more where that came from. 
— Rory McIlroy (@McIlroyRory) 

That's why jack designed 100's of golf courses… and it's knew… mustn't have taught grammar in the 50's….
— Rory McIlroy (@McIlroyRory) 

Yeah you right
Youre the 200 mill guy 
— Steve Elkington (@elkpga) 
 
Whoa!  You know things are heated when we start going below the grammar belt!  Maybe Elk's iPhone autocorrect was just off.  Maybe that's what he was taught in Australia.  Maybe "new" (knew) is like "G'day" (hello) for Aussies.   Anyway...

Twitter is an amazing arena.  Never could you imagine, in 140 characters or less, that people can get into such arguments/back and forths…and stupid ones at that.  A few weeks ago, I followed some top teachers in the country arguing that you could not tell anything about ball flight from a divot. Today, there was a back and forth on how to make the golf ball stay on the clubface longer, thus influencing the amount of curvature (draw/fade).   
 
In Rory’s case…thank goodness for his new wife Erica.  When asked about the Twitter exchange with Elkington, Rory said that his Twitter account password was changed by Erica and she has not revealed the new one to him.  He has temporarily banned himself  from social media after the online argument.  Rory has learned his lesson and Erica will most likely be the one to determine when he can return to the Twitterverse.
 
Communicating through social media is very easy and there are benefits.  However, opinions are numerous and many times from the extremes of logical thinking.  So, if you have found yourself needing to take a break from social media because of trolling, feel free to contact Erica McIlroy…she can take care of your account for the time being.