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Jordan Spieth was seen talking to Rory McIlroy in the first round of the 2024 Players Championship about where McIlroy should take a drop after McIlroy’s drive found a water hazard. However, it looks just as much like Spieth is explaining one of life’s mysteries to McIlroy.
Some fans of Si Woo Kim have been coming to The Players Championship for years, wearing a shirt with a photo of Ric Flair in his wrestling robe with Si Woo’s face photoshopped on it. Since Ric Flair loves to yell “Woooooo!” it makes sense as a great joke.
Scottie Scheffler had enough of golf pants after a long day on the golf course, and during the second season of “Full Swing,” he tells the cameraman directly that’s about to take his pants off — and go change into non-golf clothes.
On the second season of “Full Swing,” Rory McIlroy sees a report on a TV in a locker room, and he looks agasp as the shocking news starts to settle in his brain. But replace anything you want on that monitor with some news that’s insane, funny or otherwise shocking, and you have yourself a meme.
Scottie Scheffler got such a look of exasperation on his face at the 2024 Players Championship that it can turn into a great meme for reading garbage comments online. Sometimes in life, you get so frustrated that you have to close your eyes and take a few deep breaths before you lose it on someone or something.
The Tiger Woods Big Dog meme comes from the 2023 PNC Championship, when Tiger was playing with his son Charlie on a two-player team. One of Charlie’s friends was caddying for Tiger’s son during one of the rounds, and Tiger Woods greeted him with a bro handshake and called him “Big Dog” instead of his actual name. Now people are using this as a...
Nick Faldo was a great color commentator on golf, drawing on his six major championship wins and countless other titles to describe and analyze golf at the highest level. But one time when he interviewed in the CBS Sports booth, he put on his glasses to talk to the subject and totally put them on upside down (before eventually taking off the glasses and fixing them).
Michael Block was one of the lasting memories of the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill, with his remarkable run to finish tied for 15th place. Along the way, he made a hole-in-one playing alongside Rory McIlroy in the final round. When Blockie was told that he was playing with McIlroy on Sunday, he pantomimed shock and surprise so well that it became a meme.
Shane Lowry and Joe Lacava got into a chirping match on the green at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club during the 2023 Ryder Cup. Lacava was celebrating on behalf of his player, Patrick Cantlay, after a testy day on the course and lots of fun made of Cantlay’s then-rumored demands to be paid to wear the USA team hat. Lowry and Rory McIlroy warned Lacava to get...
Zach Johnson is a man who has made many a funny face in his golf career — none funnier than his side-eye sarcastic look at a reporter during his turn as the US Ryder Cup captain in Rome in 2023.