In his first published remarks since calling some American golf fans “a baying mob of imbeciles,” among other insults before the Ryder Cup, Peter Willett defended his satirical column but conceded that the timing was “atrocious.”
Writing for The Telegraph, the Masters champion’s brother said he was stunned by the response to his article and miffed that more media outlets couldn’t detect “how far I had lodged my tongue into my cheek.”
Willett says that it’s clear to anyone “with a modicum of intelligence or a desire to report news rather than fabricate it” that his column was satirical.