Asked if he would join LIV, he replies, “It’s a business decision. It’s an opportunity, so we’ll see.”

He expanded on that once returning to his UK home, saying, “The fact of there being guaranteed money at play is obviously an attraction. People ask all the time, don’t you have enough already? But that’s all relative. I treat my golf as a job, and I want to obviously maximize every bit of my potential over the coming years.”

Last week, though, Poulter said he simply couldn’t understand the vitriol that has been directed at the players.

The Florida-based player told The Telegraph’s James Corrigan that he took to comfort eating to overcome the abuse and negative comments surrounding his decision to join LIV.

“Those sarnies, covered in HP sauce, on a daily basis, were great, delicious, as was all the chocolate and everything, but I was feeling awful, slovenly, and it was plainly not a pleasant situation.

“I would never admit that I was stress-eating, but who knows the way the mind works? I was getting ridiculous abuse and, in that sense, they were tough times.”

He continued by saying he felt appearing on the series had proved very positive, and that viewers had changed their opinion of him.

“After the first seven or eight months of having the same opinion shouted at me, I was worried how it would be received, but I have been taken aback by the response.

“I mean, scrolling through the messages, since it was released 10 days ago, it’s been one positive thing after another. The opposite of what I’ve become used to.”

Not only was the money a tempter, but that oft-quoted view on the choice to play less clearly weighed heavily on the decision.

“People ask all the time ‘don’t you have enough already?’ but that’s all relative. I treat my golf as a job and I obviously want to maximise every bit of my potential over the coming years. “

Poulter revealed in the episode that, “Over the 20-plus years, I’ve been away for over 50% of their [four children’s] growth, missing birthdays, walking, talking, first steps. It’s hard sometimes when you sit back and you’ve missed all of that, but yet you’ve hopefully secured them a nice path moving forward.”

Poults, who finished an ironic runner-up behind Henrik Stenson – European Ryder Cup captain until his own jump to LIV – at the 2009 Players at Sawgrass, is also more positive about his chances of making this year’s Ryder Cup team, but only if he does it via his own results.

“Look, I just want to be accepted as a normal member of a members’ organisation and as an independent contractor who wants to play golf globally–simple as that. We’ll find out if that’s possible soon enough, although I’ll have to play my way into the team anyway because there’s no chance I’ll get one of the six wildcards, whatever I do.”

The appearance on Netflix has clearly done him the world of good, and Poults appears ready to give it all he has over the next few months.

Now back to what he calls his “fighting weight”, the owner of IJP Design says he is “doing it more seriously than ever, with my training and my diet.”

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