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Former NFL star and Corridor of Famer Peyton Manning is a sports activities legend. Full cease. He earned his elite-quarterback standing on the gridiron, however the two-time Tremendous Bowl champion is a hell of a golfer, too.
You simply wouldn’t know one among his swings at this week’s BMW Championship Professional-Am, the place Manning opened the occasion in disastrous, if additionally hilarious, trend.
Even earlier than he retired with a Tremendous Bowl trophy in his fingers, Manning was a PGA Tour pro-am common. He’s additionally made an look one among The Match occasions, the made-for-TV golf exhibition pitting star athletes and professional golfers towards one another.
Manning’s handicap reportedly bounces across the single digits, together with his index going as little as 4.0.
To achieve these sort of heights as a golfer, you have to know methods to discover the golf green off the tee, one thing Manning is outstanding at…often. That was not the case at Fort Pines Golf Membership on Wednesday.
Establishing on the elevated 1st tee, Manning was surrounded by followers desirous to see simply how good his recreation was. All the time the entertainer, Manning gave his supporters a present, simply not the one they seemingly anticipated.
Manning took a swipe at his ball, after which rapidly dropped one hand of his driver grip within the follow-through, a basic signal of a poor shot. And it was. With dozens of followers watching carefully, Manning topped his drive and despatched it careening brief and left.
Test the shot out under.
Initially an ungainly silence blanketed the world surrounding the tee, however the star quarterback rapidly lightened the temper with a quip.
“Anybody see the place that went?”
The one-liner incited an uproar of laughter among the many followers who witnessed it, and as Manning began strolling off the tee, they added a quip of their very own, becoming a member of in a loud chant of “one among us” in a good-natured jab at Manning.
With the pro-am over, Manning must sit again and watch because the top-50 gamers on the PGA Tour give it their all to say the $4 million prize, hopefully with none topped drives.