Poulter pays penalty after abusing ball-spotter

IAN POULTER got the message loud and clear.

You cannot abuse a spectator, especially a volunteer, during a European Tour event and hope to get away with it.

The colourful and often volatile Englishman lost the head sufficiently during the Nissan Irish Open at Carton House to tell a ball-spotter that he might like to “eff off out of here.”