Zach Johnson is a very good golfer. He’s won two major championships (The Masters and The Open Championship) and he has 12 total wins on the PGA Tour.
I say all of that because for some reason he sometimes makes a mistake on the tee that not even a 20-handicap would make and he did it again yesterday at the Players Championship.
Here’s what happened – Johnson went to take a practice swing next to his ball but he ended up making contact with the ball by accident and sent it flying into crowd standing near the tee box.
Check this out:
Zach Johnson did it AGAIN 🤦‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/geKHKMMW0X
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 12, 2022
Why does he keep doing that!?
By the way, it’s not a penalty stroke:
When your ball is teed or on the ground in the teeing area and you make a practice swing that accidentally strikes and moves the ball, you have not made a stroke or moved a ball in play. The Rules allow you to simply re-tee that same ball or another ball without penalty.
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 12, 2022
Here is doing it at the Masters a few years ago.
If I were to ever play at the Masters, it would look a lot like this.
Zach Johnson doesn’t quite catch all of this one.
1/2
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) April 12, 2019
Johnson had some fun with it after his round:
Sheer talent. https://t.co/xkUt53sPSc
— Zach Johnson (@ZachJohnsonPGA) March 13, 2022
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