{"id":63345,"date":"2025-08-12T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63345\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:06:11","slug":"wild-moment-golfer-misses-tap-in-putt-for-his-first-ever-eagle-after-being-told-dont-choke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63345\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild moment golfer misses tap-in putt for his first ever eagle&#8230; after being told: &#8216;Don&#8217;t choke!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-182\/daniel-matthews.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DANIEL MATTHEWS, US SENIOR SPORTS WRITER<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/follow?screen_name=_DanMatthews_&amp;tw_p=followbutton\" class=\"twitter-follow-author\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  22:01 EDT, 11 August 2025   |  Updated:  22:01 EDT, 11 August 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">An amateur golfer has gone viral after missing a tap-in for his first ever eagle &#8211; just moments after being warned not to &#8216;choke&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Over the weekend, the best players on the planet battled it out for a $20million purse at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But elsewhere on Sunday, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NUCLRGOLF\/status\/1954598843053392159\">a video on social media<\/a> showcased the other side of golf. In the clip, a man is seen walking across the green to find his ball barely a foot from the hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I&#8217;m low key sweating,&#8217; he says to the woman holding the camera. &#8216;Don&#8217;t choke!&#8217; she replies. &#8216;Don&#8217;t look!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The man then reveals that he is putting for his first ever eagle. But he somehow leaves the ball short of the cup, prompting the camerawoman to scream and laugh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">To make matters worse, the man appears to be carrying a\u00a0LAB broomstick putter, which retail for around $600.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-48bff241872b74b6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101129211-14991675-An_amateur_golfer_has_gone_viral_after_agonizingly_missing_a_sho-a-2_175496308926.jpeg\" height=\"784\" width=\"634\" alt=\"An amateur golfer has gone viral after agonizingly missing a short putt for his first ever eagle\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">An amateur golfer has gone viral after agonizingly missing a short putt for his first ever eagle<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He wasn&#8217;t the only player to face allegations of choking on Sunday after Tommy Fleetwood&#8217;s brutal wait for a first PGA Tour title went on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Englishman has not won in 162 starts on the PGA Tour and at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, he added a sixth third-place finish to the six he has collected as a runner up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Fleetwood was two shots clear with three holes to play but slid down into a tie for third, with Justin Rose eventually beating America&#8217;s J.J. Spaun in a playoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It was Rose\u2019s first win in more than two years, with that barren run including runner-up finishes at the 2024 Open Championship and the Masters in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Wild moment golfer misses tap-in putt for his first ever eagle&#8230; after being told: &#8216;Don&#8217;t choke!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By DANIEL MATTHEWS, US SENIOR SPORTS WRITER Published: 22:01 EDT, 11 August 2025 | Updated: 22:01 EDT, 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,100,755,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-63345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}