Right, it's time to vent.
Last year during The Masters, Shane Lowry was listed as Australian on the leaderboards on Google. We all had a chuckle, slagged Google and moved on.
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Now in 2016, and especially frustrating considering Shane got off to an absolute flyer in the first round of the tournament, we're not having it anymore. A good few of our readers alerted us to the fact that this is still a problem:
@ballsdotie Is there a different Shane lowry from Australia? #Googleleaderboard pic.twitter.com/VCFfOl7BrY
— ger (@dubsgerire) April 7, 2016
Apparently Shane Lowry is Australian now #Masters2016 @ballsdotie @JOEdotie @SportsJOEdotie #shanelowry pic.twitter.com/2kpQ1xv54K
— Paul Gannon (@Paul__Gannon) April 7, 2016
So... Why Australia? Well, infuriatingly, it is because of this former Millwall defender who now plays for Perth Glory in his homeland of, you guessed it, Australia.
This is GOOGLE we're talking about here. I would have imagined that Google could have told me what I had for breakfast this morning, let alone the nationality of a famous golfer that is playing in a huge tournament, and that they even have listed as Irish when you search his name!
OFFALY! IT SAYS IT RIGHT THERE!!
And when we said off to a flyer, we meant it:
Decent start Shane! We could get used to seeing this all weekend... #Masters2016 pic.twitter.com/Dek9jLUsjB
— Balls.ie (@ballsdotie) April 7, 2016
We demand justice.
Of course, it's clear just some robot at google who doesn't give a shite how patriotic we are, so we may be forced to wait.
