"I can safely say, hand on heart, that I have not been given the nod"

With the British press doing what they do best, speculating, an irritated Ian Poulter addressed the media earlier today at the Deutsche Bank Championship.  Poulter denied rumors that captain Nick Faldo had already given him the nod for a captain's pick, thus giving him the leeway to play at the Deutsche Bank.  Here's some of Poulter's vent session:

I can safely say, hand on heart, that I have not been given the nod, just to clear that up once and for all, to stop all of the nonsense that's been in the papers, the nonsense from the players talking," he said.

I'm disgusted that people, players, media have put what they've put, and have, and would, basically think that Nick Faldo would be that unprofessional to have done such a thing a week before a number of different scenarios could have actually happened. I'm amazed that people would think he would have done that. I know he hasn't done that because I know for a fact I haven't been given the nod.

So I just think it's pathetic that people can even assume, write or think that that's the case. He's been a professional for the last 30 years of his career and he's not going to start changing that now.

That, I hope, clears that fact up and underlines it and puts it in a nice box and does whatever it wants to. But that is exactly the truth and nothing but the truth.