Chris Gotterup hit a spotter with a ‘piss missile’ at the BMW Championship that literally left a Bridgestone logo on his calf

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The funny thing about a huge, season-defining golf tournament like the BMW Championship is that no matter how many cameras are on the course or how many fans are watching at home (a whopping 3.5 million in this case), there’s still so much that we don’t get to see. Take, for instance, perhaps the funniest and most bizarre anecdote from the PGA Tour season’s penultimate event last weekend, which didn’t go viral until long after dust settled on Tuesday.

That’s when Smylie Kaufman told the story of an errant Chris Gotterup shot he witnessed on the 12th hole on Sunday. On his podcast, ‘The Smylie Show,’ the NBC on-course reporter explained that the shot flew into the crowd at approximately “3,000 mph,” leaving Gotterup with a tricky shot up against a tree. The true, ahem, impact of the so-called “piss missile” didn’t become clear until a little while later, however …

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No, you don’t need an eye exam. That’s a tiny little Bridgestone logo welted onto the back spotter’s calf from where Gotterup’s shot apparently struck him. Here, take a closer look.

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Unbelievable stuff. We knew the Rutgers product could move it, but we didn’t know he had it like that. He literally branded this poor guy WITH A GOLF BALL. We’ve iced countless welts and nursed plenty of bruises over the years, but we’ve never seen anything like this. From the sound of things, Bridgestone is trying to find this guy, presumably to offer him a couple of free sleeves, but if we were him, the last thing we’d want to see right now is more golf balls.

This article was originally published on golfdigest.com