We've seen Rickie Fowler go undercover before as Dick Fowler, P.I., but this time, instead of busting naughty golfers, he's helping out unsuspecting ones. Well, sort of.
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In a new pair of Farmers Insurance ads that time nicely with next week's Farmers Insurance Open, the PGA Tour star dons a Zach Galifianaki-esque beard and takes on the identity of “Richard Flower,” a chatty caddie. And this affable alter ego is eager to help golfers with everything from reading greens to swing advice to a chipping lesson that involves players hiking up their pants. Check them out:
Our favorite exchange has to be when one unsuspecting golfer asks, “How long have you been a caddie?” Fowler quickly shoots back, “Longer than you've been alive.”
Anyway, good stuff, Rickie. Farmers clearly hasn't been giving you enough speaking lines through the years.
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Because of the nature of the sport, golf doesn't lend itself to real rivalries. For one to formulate organically, two players have to go head to head on the course, preferably on Sunday, multiple times. The odds of that happening are often slim at best.
But Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka are doing their best to create a rivalry off the course. The two have had a war of words that dates back to last January, when Koepka called out DeChambeau for slow play on a podcast following DeChambeau's victory last January at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic. Then there was the impromptu meeting between the two at the Northern Trust in August, another event DeChambeau's deliberate pre-shot routine came under fire on social media. At the time that seemed to be the end of it.
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Nearly 14 years removed from his fourth and final PGA Tour win, Tim Herron has made it clear he's ready to move onto the senior circuit. “I’ve been looking for the promised land all summer,” Herron joked in November. And as the big five-oh creeps closer, the golfer better known as “Lumpy” has even created a fantastic hype video around his upcoming career transition.
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Not surprisingly, it involves the self-deprecating player making fun of getting older in hilarious fashion. Check it out:
https://twitter.com/PGALumpy/status/1217462653473501184
The music. The slow-mo. The reading glasses. The celebratory dance. Absolute perfection.
The PGA Tour Champions is adding another good player—and quite a character—come Feb. 6. Long live Lumpy.
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