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Tweets — not birdies — make Cink the leader at Memorial
DUBLIN — The first round of the Memorial Tournament is far from over, but already one guy is running away from the field at Muirfield.
Thanks to his tweets — not his birdies — Stewart Cink is the undisputed king here this week.
As in the rest of the world, Twittering is the new toy of the sports world and several PGA players already have their own Twitter sites to communicate with anyone who is interested in them.
Thursday, the PGA put up its leader board and its top tweet man is Cink. According to latest tour statistics, Cink has 256,533 followers.
Although it’s not quite the same as Arnie’s Army, it is a pro tour phenomenon.
Cink — who as a press room interview was a nice guy, but a pretty bland quote — suddenly has a Tiger-like presence about him in cyberspace.
The next most active Twitter account on the PGA Tour belongs to John Daly, who had 6,762 followers. Davis Love was next with 2,923, followed by Parker McLachlin, 1,483 and Chris DiMarco, 1442. In all, 13 players were listed with Spencer Levin 13th at 108.
On the PGA Tour, Cink has five career victories, has been part of four Ryder Cup teams and won over $25 million. But most people know him now not for that resume, but simply by his Twitter account tag: stewartcink
He first heard about Twittering while watching the ESPN show Pardon the Interruption, where the 140-character meanderings of the Toronto Raptors’ Chris Bosh were being debated.
He’d never heard about it before, but his sons explained it to him and helped him open an account and then he ran with it.
“I’m pretty liberal with what I put out there. I run the gamut,” Cink told USA Today recently. “I share some insight about golf and sometimes I talk about my life. I want people to see that I’m a regular guy who just plays golf for a living.
“I’m just trying to make a direct, unfiltered connection to people and let my personality come through with my messages. I have a harder time doing that through TV cameras and newspapers and magazines and the radio.”
And so what are people finding out about the 36-year-old pro from his tweets?
Folks know that he likes the Atlanta Thrashers and the Double Double at In-N-Out Burger and loves snowboarding and, like the rest of his family, watching American Idol.
During a practice round at the Masters — players are not allowed to use cell phones during tournament play — he sent out tweets about changes to the course and even took pictures of the Back 9 and posted them with his tweets.
Here in Columbus late Wednesday, he wrote:
“Remarkable dinner at Chipolte! Heard not one but two fave songs on radio while there. Beck (Sing It Again) Pixies (Wave of Mutilation)
A while back he tweeted that he’d left the sunroof open on his car and rain had soaked his iPod.
Among the responses he got, someone told him to put the iPod in a bag of rice, seal it up and let it go for a few days.
Cink did just that, went on a ski trip, came back and found his iPod was working perfectly.
He promptly sent out a tweet on the songs he was listening to.
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By пapaзит
October 17, 2009 3:36 AM | Link to this
Текст действительно понравился, особенно последний абзац хорош :)
By Виктор Евсеев
August 20, 2009 2:55 PM | Link to this
Любое искусство, особенно нетрадиционное, всегда вызывало ожесточенные споры. Думаю, оно просто имеет право на свое существование, вот и всё!