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In a commercial for Viacom’s new Paramount Plus streaming service (replacing CBS All Access), Bryson DeChambeau appears to represent CBS’ coverage of the PGA Tour. DeChambeau, along with others representing what will be available on the service, are climbing the mountain in the Paramount logo. DeChambeau is a good sport, but he looks ridiculous. BRYSON...
Brooks Koepka was getting frustrated after a bad drive in the second round of the 2021 Farmers Insurance Open, so he bent his driver shaft along his back to the point just before it broke in two. This is a great way to show incredible frustration with just enough restraint. How did that shaft stay in one piece? ???? pic.twitter.com/ZwukWw98oy — Caddie Network...
Amanda Balionis interviews PGA Tour golfers after their rounds during events with CBS Sports has coverage. She also appears in a Stifel commercial where she interviews a golfer who is full of shit.
At one point, the golfer says something that forces Balionis to turn to the hard camera with an incredulous look.
In one of the European Tour’s greatest spoof videos, they had a session of the Angry Golfers support group, including Tommy Fleetwood, Ian Poulter, Eddie Pepperell, Henrik Stenson and Tyrell Hatton. Pepperell said he likes to eat chocolate as a coping mechanism, which he does along with going on Twitter and fighting back against the trolls and haters. This look...
In one of the European Tour’s greatest spoof videos, they had a session of the Angry Golfers support group, including Tommy Fleetwood, Ian Poulter, Eddie Pepperell, Henrik Stenson and Tyrell Hatton. One of the tactics Fleetwood worked on with Hatton was getting him to put a thumbs up and show it to everyone when he was getting angry. The tagline is “when...
Dustin Johnson won the 2020 Masters, played for the first — and hopefully only — time in November at Augusta National Golf Club. With a socially distanced celebration, it wasn’t the traditional handshake for the Masters winner in Butler Cabin with Masters chairman Fred Ridley. Instead, the duo fist-bumped, setting up a great meme of two things...
Paul Casey is living the good life. He’s one of the best golfers on the planet. He makes plenty of money. He has a wife that’s very attractive, Pollyanna Woodward, who is a model. Ahead of the 2017 US Open, Casey was getting to scope out Erin Hills, when he whipped out his phone to take a picture. His phone cover? A photo of Pollyanna Woodward in lingerie...
Tom Watson was on Golf Channel programming to talk about something — anything, really — and he was featured on a driving range. Watson was wearing headphones in a manner that practically no other human being would ever wear headphones.
There are all kinds of random golf products on the Internet, and a lot of vendors are really just overseas folks who have no idea what they’re selling or how to market it. Take, for example, a vendor on Wayfair that was selling a golf putting mat for indoor use. They featured an unlicensed image of Dustin Johnson…using the mat outside…hitting driver...
Tiger Woods was playing in the 2020 Zozo Championship at Sherwood, and there was a great football game finishing between Indiana University and Penn State. Woods wanted to catch the end of the game, so Golf Digest reporter Daniel Rapaport showed Woods the end on his mobile phone. Meanwhile, a woman onlooking the whole scene looks completely exasperated by the entire...