While speaking with GolfWRX, Byeong Hun An discussed the pros and cons of being a professional golfer on social media.
“I just like reading some, you know, funny rumors here and there looking at the, the news, I guess, you know, it’s the things you cannot get from the mainstream news, you know, like the little gossips here and there”
“I hear a lot of support, you know, a lot of friendly messages from, from the followers and everything. I think those are the pros, right?”
“[A con] is that it takes a lot of energy out of you.”
An also said that he doesn’t understand the tribal fighting between PGA Tour fans and LIV Golf fans.
“You know… there might be some messages that’s a little aggressive or you can hear some nonsense from other people… There are a lot of fights going happening on Twitter these days between the, you know, the pro PGA (Tour) fans and pro-LIV fans and just listening to them is exhausting.”
“To be honest, I don’t know why they’re so mad about. Not having LIV golfers on PGA Tour or like, you know, why they’re so mad about.”
“We (the players) have been quiet, but I see all the fans kind of fighting each other. There’s no point.”
“They’re not doing the negotiations, you know, the, the pros are or the, you know, investors are.”
“It’s a very weird world. I think that Twitter especially, it’s very weird.”
An added that there is no animosity between LIV and PGA Tour players.
“I saw Dean (Burmester) last week, I saw (Joaquin) Niemann last week I saw many guys…They’re on a different tour, you know, it’s not like we’re at war.”
“I mean, maybe some guys maybe think that, but I don’t because it’s a choice they made and then, you get to see them in the majors.”
An will tee it up next at the Memorial Tournament in two weeks.
Check out the interview in full below:
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