{"id":635512,"date":"2026-05-10T22:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635512\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:40:22","slug":"golfer-mackenzine-hughes-sticks-a-tee-shot-on-the-green-after-it-bounces-off-a-cameramans-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635512\/","title":{"rendered":"Golfer Mackenzine Hughes sticks a tee shot on the green after it bounces off a cameraman’s head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The worst golfers<\/a> among us (*raises hand*) will take a decent shot any way they can get it, but sometimes the pros will take a friendly bounce too.<\/p>\n

Even if it means plunking some poor cameraman in the noggin.<\/p>\n

The Truist Championship is taking place this weekend at Quail Hollow in Charlotte<\/a>, and on Saturday, Mackenzie Hughes was gearing up to let ‘er rip on the par-3 13th hole.<\/p>\n

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\"Mackenzie <\/p>\n

Golfer Mackenzie Hughes had an unfortunate tee shot at the Truist Championship that hit a cameraman in the head. (Photo by Joe Robbins\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Hughes must have had some Wheaties for breakfast because he hit his tee shot long and straight for the gallery, where it smoked a cameraman \u2014 whose name we later learned is Gary \u2014 in the head.<\/p>\n

But the wild part? It ended up being a pretty decent shot.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Gary was all right, and that must have been largely because \u2014 as mentioned by the commentators \u2014 he’s built like a brick outhouse.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I could take a tee shot to the dome and still be walking around afterward, and I have no plans to find out whether or not that’s truly the case.<\/p>\n

But what are the odds that, by standing there and taking one for the team, Gary turned what would have been a lousy tee shot into one that at least found the green?<\/p>\n

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That’s got to be like hitting a million cart paths at once.<\/p>\n

\"Mackenzie <\/p>\n

Luck has been hard to come by at the Truist Championship for Mackenzie Hughes. (Photo by Andrew Redington\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Hughes, who made sure to apologize to our guy, Gary, managed to shoot par on the hole.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, that was pretty much the only stroke of good luck the Canadian has had this weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After coming into the day at +4, Hughes shot a 73 in the third round and finished the day at +6. That left him tied for 70th on the weekend.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The worst golfers among us (*raises hand*) will take a decent shot any way they can get it,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[12200,427,259870,3332,99],"class_list":["post-635512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-cameras","tag-golf","tag-outkick-sports","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}