THEY were personal friends and golfing partners, but it looks like Bersatu politician Dato Abdul Rashid Asari and party president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin won’t be hitting golf balls together anymore.

BOTH sides of the racial divide have been hurling insults and accusations, fuelling each other’s anger over the issue of the "Allah" socks controversy and driving racial tensions to a dangerously new level.

It is an open secret that Datuk Seri Azmin Ali is on a comeback bid for the Bersatu leadership but he will have to take on the equally ambitious Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin.

Those in the corridors of power were masters in the art of attack but the shoe is on the other foot and they are now the target of fault-finders.