Rory McIlroy and Steve Elkington were engaged in a social media spat after the Australian took a potshot at the World No. 2 who missed the cut at the US Open on Friday.
Elkington, the 1995 PGA Championship winner, suggested that McIlroy had lost interest in adding to his collection of four Major championships.
“Rory is so bored playiing golf...without Tiger the threshold is prolly 4 majors with 100mill in bank,” Elkington wrote on Twitter.
“Nobody more gifted than Rory... Hes so bored playing golf on tour,” Texas-based Australian Elkington wrote in a separate tweet.
McIlroy was not amused. “More like 200mil... not bad for a ‘bored’ 28 year old... plenty more where that came from,” replied the Northern Irishman.