There are a lot of PGA Tour rookies making their debuts at this week’s Sony Open, and it’s possible one of them learned a very important rule on the opening day: the cameras are always rolling.
This is the big time now, baby! So there’s a great chance fans at the course or viewers at home will see everything you do. And we mean everything.
Take this golfer who strolled into the background to take a leak during the first round at Waialae Country Club while Keegan Bradley lined up a putt.
Feels like a golfer in the background needed some relief. pic.twitter.com/Stzwrae09F
— Andy Nesbitt (@anezbitt) January 12, 2024
Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go. Just know that you might be the butt of some Golf Twitter jokes.
Strokes-Gained-Relief
— Taylor McCutcheon (@Cutch_T) January 12, 2024
Hope he was not pointing the wrong way….. pic.twitter.com/F6AFHn7xHJ
— Wayne Griffin (@grifology70) January 12, 2024
Although, Jon Rahm and his port-a-loo campaign (at least, before he left for LIV Golf) was the subject of a few:
Rahm tried to fix this….
— Kaneco.eth (@Web3Kaneco) January 12, 2024
Where’s all the Jon Rahm port-a-potties? Did they get a full refund with 30 days after he went to LIV?
— Andrew McCauley (@mccauley_andrew) January 12, 2024
And Bradley, known for his, um, deliberate pace, was also a target:
He could’ve gone #2 in the time it takes Keegan to hit a putt
— PleatsForDays (@PleatsForDays) January 12, 2024
Boom, roasted. In any event, we’ll spare this mystery golfer an exhaustive Getty Images photo search to try to blow his cover. He’s gone through enough already.