Most of golf's biggest stars, from Jordan Spieth to Rory McIlroy to Dustin Johnson, pulled out of contention to represent their nation in the Olympic golf tournament for various reasons - from scheduling to concerns over the Zika virus to a simple lack of desire to win an Olympic medal in a sport is centered around four major championships.
Johnson is enjoying a short summer break on a boat with his fiancee Paulina Gretzky and posted a photo to Instagram - where dozens and dozens commenters ripped the U.S. Open champion for pulling out of Rio.
Gretzky obliterated them with one very reasonable (and profane) comment on the photo.
You have to be an irrational person to be insulted by Dustin Johnson not playing in the first Olympic golf tournament in 112 years, in the middle of a jam-packed season during which he's already won a major and is in great position in the FedEx Cup. Skipping the Olympics does not make him a bad American, Instagram commenters.
(Thanks to Golf Digest for sharing this story.)
