‘I’m gonna look so bad after this’: Matt Every explains why he once drove a ball OB on purpose

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If we’ve learned anything about Matt Every through the years, it’s that when he’s got a microphone in front of him, he’s going to say something entertaining. And his latest podcast appearance produced an all-time tour tale.

Every hopped on Golf’s “Subpar” podcast earlier this week to talk about his, um, interesting career, and once again, he delivered plenty of golf. But we’re going to focus on one funny – and kinda mean – story in particular.

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As Every explains, he was in “a little tiff” at the time with his caddie, Derek Mason. And he was having a bad second round at the Memorial tournament and on his way to a near-certain missed cut.

“I’m gonna look so bad after this,” Every says with a chuckle before launching into the wild tale.

To set the scene, Every was coming off a double-bogey on the sixth hole (he’d played the back nine first) and Mason decided to forecaddie for him, hand him the driver and not walk to the seventh tee with him (Every acknowledges it’s a long walk, but that he hated when Derek forecaddied). After making his frustration known, another caddie in the group challenged him to hit one out-of-bounds on purpose so Derek would have to walk all the way back to the tee to bring him another golf ball.

“[Brian] Stuard’s guy goes, ‘You won’t hit one out-of-bounds on purpose,’ and was like, ‘Yes I will. Which way do you want it? Right or left?'” Every recalls. “So we went right and I hit it right.”

Classic. Listen to Every tell it here, because that’s not where the story ends:

“But the bet was he had to come back and hand me the ball, he couldn’t, like, toss it,” Every continues. “And he’s coming up the hill and I’m not making eye contact with him the whole way and then he hands me the ball. And they all started laughing.”

Poor Mason, but that’s hilarious. And brilliant by Every if he managed to make a few dollars out of a missed cut.