"Lying is dangerous" Immelman explains LOL response to LIV's Greg Norman
LIV Golf's Greg Norman wished International Presidents Cup captain Trevor Immelman "good luck". This is how he explained his reaction...
Trevor Immelman has explained that "he'd rather just tell the truth" when he was pressed on his LOL response to Greg Norman's well wishes.
Immelman, the captain of the International side at the 2022 Presidents Cup, has seen his team depleted because a number of players have decided to join Norman's LIV Golf Tour.
After the U.S. side raced into an 8-2 lead after two days' play at Quail Hollow, it looked as though the rest-of-the-world side were heading for a record defeat.
Immelman previously suggested that the emergence of the LIV Golf Invitational Series was "a pain in my a**".
He is without:
- Cameron Smith
- Abraham Ancer
- Louis Oosthuizen
- Marc Leishman
- Joaquin Niemann
All five players would have made the 12-man squad. The U.S. team are without Bryson DeChambeau, who has pleaded for a resolution between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour.
Dustin Johnson, who went 5-0 in last year's Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits as the U.S. demolished Team Europe, is also missing.
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Despite this, Norman, who led the International team to their only success in the Presidents Cup when it was held in Melbourne in 1998, wanted to wish Immelman well.
He wrote: "Outside of all this angst, golf is golf, competition is competition; something every golfer thrives on.
"As a former player and captain of the International Team, I wish Trevor Immelman and his entire team the very best in repeating our only 1998 Presidents Cup success in Melbourne."
Immelman simply responded: "LOL".
Here's the full exchange when he was pressed on Norman's good luck message:
Q. Trevor, I hate to ask, but what did you make of Greg Norman's well wishes on Twitter?
TREVOR IMMELMAN: Look, any of you that have known me for the longest time know that I'm an extremely open and honest person. I pretty much say it exactly as I'm thinking it. What I said was exactly what I was doing when I read that tweet. I was laughing out loud.
I learned long ago that lying is dangerous because you've got to have a good memory. So I'd rather just tell the truth.
