{"id":627709,"date":"2026-04-24T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627709\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:54:08","slug":"zurich-classic-michael-brennan-goes-viral-with-shirtless-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627709\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Classic: Michael Brennan Goes Viral With Shirtless Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johnny Keefer joked that playing partner Michael Brennan was about to go viral after his shirtless shot at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans<\/a> blew up on social media.<\/p>\n

And it wasn’t for his actual effort when trying to chip his ball out of the swamp on 18 at TPC Louisiana<\/a>, as the ball just looped up into the air and splash landed a few feet away.<\/p>\n

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But rather for the way Brennan stripped off for the shot, with the 24-year-old unafraid to get his rather ripped physique out for the crowd, and TV cameras.<\/p>\n

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Brennan knew partner Keefer was safely on the green so in the better ball team format of the Zurich Classic<\/a> it was worth having a slap at it from the water – or not as commentators on TV joked.<\/p>\n

When Brennan was asked post-round if he’d had a viral moment on camera before, Keefer jumped in and replied: “He’s about to. He might get a few DMs.”<\/p>\n

Brennan then asnwered laughing: “I have no idea. I don’t know if I’ve been very close.<\/p>\n

“When we were at school a couple of my teammates had a video that blew up on our Wake Instagram, but I wasn’t in the video, so I really have no idea. Maybe that by association, but…”<\/p>\n

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Brennan added that he wouldn’t have contemplated attempting the swamp shot if it were a regular tournament on the PGA Tour and not a team event.<\/p>\n

“I was dropping it if I was just playing in a normal tournament, but Johnny had a birdie putt on the green,” he explained. “So I was, like, well, I guess we can try it, but, yeah, it was fun.”<\/p>\n

Keefer said he was impressed that Brennan kept his trousers so clean despite the swamp splash, and said that type of incident is why the Zurich Classic<\/a> can be such a fun event.<\/p>\n

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“He went into the locker room, cleaned himself up a little bit more,” said Keefer. “I mean, I just think that that’s kind of part of this event. I feel like usually if we were just playing this in a practice round, he probably would have just picked up.<\/p>\n

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“Just him to have my back and everything like that and just willing to even do that and even just to put a smile on my face, I mean, that’s massive. So it’s just kind of the team chemistry that we have regardless of whether we’re in a hazard or not.”<\/p>\n

Keefer and Brennan’s chemistry was on show as they carded a team score of 61, that’s 11 under at TPC Louisiana, to sit in T6 after the first round<\/a> – still three shots behind leaders Alex Smalley and Hayden Springer who shot 58.<\/p>\n

Joel Dahmen was another who almost had a big viral moment in the swamp, but a much more serious one as he had to play a tricky chip onto the green with a rather unwelcome spectator watching on.<\/p>\n

As Dahmen was checking over his shoulder a number of times due to the beady eyes of an alligator just peaking out of the swamp watching him closely – so Dehman was quickly out of there as soon as he made contact.<\/p>\n

That’s all in a day’s work around TPC Louisiana.<\/p>\n