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Across the pond: Ian Poulter is enjoying life in Florida Photo: REUTERS
Ian Poulter, Justin Rose and Ross Fisher all live on the same gated estate in Orlando. But Poulter, extolling the virtues of his transatlantic lifestyle in the very Home Counties setting of Woburn, would not have it any other way.
“It’s European,” he says of the exclusive Lake Nona suburb he is happy to call home. “All the street names are English: Covent Garden Drive, Sloane Street. It’s just a very relaxed, social environment to live in.”
In reality, his inauthentic surroundings are about as European as the Everglades or the Florida flamingos, but Poulter bristles at the suggestion he has become Americanized.
“I just feel like an Englishman living in America,” he counters. “I still have my English home comforts – I like my PG Tips, my bacon butties, the odd curry – but it’s the ease of living over there that I enjoy. To pop down to the shops and buy some steak for a barbecue takes me 10 minutes. Time is money.”
