"No apology will be made and as long as I have breath in my body I will not set foot on Meldrum House soil again."

If my memory serves, the David Feherty brouhaha brought out all sorts of Brits lecturing we Americans about how thin skinned we are. Thank you for that. Now explain this little row over a bloody text message!

Seems former Open Champion Lawrie is not going to back down over his text message to the super at his former home course. You know, the one that got him kicked out!

Thanks to reader Kevin for spotting Lawrie's website post:

My phone has been red hot with messages of support over the Meldrum situation, apparently they want me to apologize......apologize for what? The conversation I had in the pro shop lasted 20 seconds, was not heated and I merely asked why the greens were poor. My text to Kenny Harper was banter to which he replied with some banter of his own, which I thought was really funny. To be told not to return is incredible but it will not harm my career one bit. I would like to thank everyone for their messages of support which have come from all over Scotland...from Edinburgh right up to Dornoch. No apology will be made and as long as I have breath in my body I will not set foot on Meldrum House soil again.

Not a lot of grey area there!

Imagine if he'd told a joke about two bullets and Osama and...ah forget it.