Golfer strips down, stands in alligator-infested water to hit shot
Sometimes you just want to keep your clean pants clean.
Playing in the first round of the Zurich Classic in New Orleans, Justin Rose found himself in the alligator-infested water alongside the par-3 third hole. Now, for reference, here’s what Rose’s pants looked like:
Yeah, you don’t want to get those lovely pants spattered with mud. So Rose stripped right down to his skivvies and fired away, like so:
Don't be shy.
Take off the trousers. Hit the shot. #QuickHits pic.twitter.com/tR0U9LIqGg
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) April 26, 2018
Alas, he bogeyed the hole, so it was all for naught. But in a bit of coincidence, Rose was paired with Henrik Stenson, who holds the distinction of displaying the most flesh in golf history at the WGC-Cadillac Championship in Doral in 2009. Here, burn this into your brain:
So, yeah. Bad as it was for Stenson, it could’ve been so much worse for the rest of us.
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