Presidents Cup star deletes and apologises for angry post aimed at Team USA rival

Wyndham Clark was progressive successful a warfare of words with Byeong Hun An up of Sunday's Presidents Cup singles league astatine Royal Montreal, with the 2 players clashing connected societal media

Byeong Hun An took a swipe astatine Wyndham Clark connected societal media earlier rapidly retracting his post, arsenic tensions roseate astatine the Presidents Cup. The duo were caught up successful a scathing speech of words anterior to Sunday's important singles matches astatine Royal Montreal.

The feud ignited pursuing Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele's triumph implicit Si Woo Kim and Tom Kim during Saturday's foursomes. In the aftermath of their win, footage showed erstwhile US Open champ Clark taunting with "Nighty-night, boys," aimed astatine the Kims.

He didn't halt there; helium was besides captured making a 'sleeping' motion with his caput propped connected his hands, seemingly mocking the defeated Kim team. In retaliation, An shared a caustic remark connected X showing that animosity was gathering towards an aggravated finale.

His connection read: "You ever person a feline successful your group, who doesn't bash s*** but speech s*** each day," followed by a laughing emoji. However, hesitation took clasp arsenic An, 33, promptly removed the arguable tweet, opting alternatively for contrition. "I'm deleting my tweet," helium confessed. "My apologies. I privation to beryllium a amended idiosyncratic than that."

But the harm was done, with screenshots of the bold station spreading similar wildfire online. Clark spotted the remark, starring to a crisp riposte conscionable up of his head-to-head with Min Woo Lee. He changeable backmost connected Instagram successful effect to An's archetypal post, retorting: "Then there's the feline who didn't adjacent person a tee time.."

The US squad triumphed erstwhile again, holding onto the Presidents Cup aft an awesome show connected the concluding day. Ryder Cup skipper Keegan Bradley withstood a last-gasp scare to decision Si Woo Kim and prehend the captious constituent ensuring their win.

This extended hold for the International Team continues, arsenic they've yet to clinch their archetypal rubric since 1998, with the USA asserting their supremacy implicit respective decades.