An amateur golfer has gone viral after missing a tap-in for his first ever eagle – just moments after being warned not to ‘choke’.
Over the weekend, the best players on the planet battled it out for a $20million purse at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis.
But elsewhere on Sunday, a video on social media showcased the other side of golf. In the clip, a man is seen walking across the green to find his ball barely a foot from the hole.
‘I’m low key sweating,’ he says to the woman holding the camera. ‘Don’t choke!’ she replies. ‘Don’t look!’
The man then reveals that he is putting for his first ever eagle. But he somehow leaves the ball short of the cup, prompting the camerawoman to scream and laugh.
To make matters worse, the man appears to be carrying a LAB broomstick putter, which retail for around $600.
An amateur golfer has gone viral after agonizingly missing a short putt for his first ever eagle
He wasn’t the only player to face allegations of choking on Sunday after Tommy Fleetwood’s brutal wait for a first PGA Tour title went on.
The Englishman has not won in 162 starts on the PGA Tour and at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, he added a sixth third-place finish to the six he has collected as a runner up.
Fleetwood was two shots clear with three holes to play but slid down into a tie for third, with Justin Rose eventually beating America’s J.J. Spaun in a playoff.
It was Rose’s first win in more than two years, with that barren run including runner-up finishes at the 2024 Open Championship and the Masters in April.
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Wild moment golfer misses tap-in putt for his first ever eagle… after being told: ‘Don’t choke!’
