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English golfer, Ian Poulter is beginning to develop an image as the bad boy of European Tour, Golf. He has just been fined an undisclosed sum for smashing a tee-marker at last week’s Mercedes Benz Championship in Cologne. This comes soon after a similar transgression (and fine) in July at the British Open in Carnoustie. Last year Poulter was also fined $10,000 (the Tour’s joint highest ever) for verbally abusing a Marshall at the Irish Open.

Poulter puts it down to a demonstration of passion for the game and seems resigned to paying the fines, rather than change his character. As Poulter says, ” I’m not the sort of person who can play a bad shot and smile. It’s not as if I’ve taken a Samurai sword and chopped off a few heads”.

Clearly Poulter is a flamboyant individual which is also expressed through his attire. The game needs characters like him and I hope he earns sufficient prize money that the fines don’t make to much of a dent in his pocket.

Poulter is currently 5 under par, during the second round of the British Masters at the Belfry, two strokes behind the leader, Lee Westwood.

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