‘I hate you, Joel’ – Harry Higgs channelled Liverpool legend John Arne Riise and Dahmen swirled shirt round as pints flew in wild Phoenix Open second at PGA Tour’s rowdiest occasion

LIV Golf sells itself as ‘golf however louder’ – when actually it’s the PGA Tour’s Phoenix Open which most closely fits that description.

For some motive, each February, golf’s well-known decorum takes a vacation and all hell breaks free.

Pints fly onto greens, missed putts are met with jeers, and silence over the ball? Pfft, no probability.

The bastions of {golfing} etiquette watch on in horror as their treasured sport is became one thing monstrous.

For everybody else, it’s sporting theatre at its easiest. Simply ask Harry Higgs and Joel Dahmen.

In 2022, Higgs completed T49 and Dahmen ended up T62 on every week when Scottie Scheffler lastly broke by means of together with his first PGA Tour win.

However Scheffler was not the story on Sunday night. His sporting triumph was overshadowed by a few blokes flashing their nipples.

On the well-known sixteenth gap, Higgs and Dahmen despatched the gang wild by turning into (we will solely assume) the primary ever skilled golfers to take their shirts off on the PGA Tour.

Speaking about it afterwards on the No Laying Up podcast, Higgs explained: “Me, Joel and Keith [Mitchell] see the same trainer. We both take pretty good care of our golf bodies, but after that, maybe not that great overall.

“I’m making bogeys all over the place. We get to 16, Keith hit first and he regarded over to me. I used to be like, ‘No, don’t convey that s*** up’.

“I had it in my head all day. Max Homa was telling me I must do it. I nearly did it on Saturday, that day is like nothing within the sporting world. It’s unbelievable.

“I signal my card for 76, go residence, have a cocktail after which I realise, ‘Oh s***, I’m in sixty fifth and Joel’s title is true subsequent to me’. It’s a twosome.

“Then Joel did a tweet saying if it bought sufficient likes I’d take my shirt off. However he didn’t put a quantity on it.

“Within the morning I used to be like, ‘Dude, f*** off, I’m not doing this, no’.

“We teed off on 10, and in the course of the stroll down, 4 folks requested me if it bought sufficient retweets.

“It was each single cease, folks had been yelling it. If I may speak to them, I’d say, ‘No it didn’t, I’m not doing it’.

“We get to 16, we tee off, after which it begins, ‘Present some pores and skin! Present some pores and skin!’

“Joel’s telling them to get louder, I’m flipping them off the complete time.

“Then they had been shouting, ‘Take it off! Take it off!’ They by no means stopped, I needed to undergo my routine and hit the putt, nobody’s quiet.

“As quickly as I hit it, I knew it was in, however the ball took two minutes and the entire time I used to be questioning whether or not to do it.

“It fell within the gap and I simply did it. The perfect half was after I picked my ball out of the outlet and rotated, Joel was swirling his shirt round.

“In that second I assumed, ‘I hate you Joel, however good man that you simply didn’t let me do that s*** alone’.

“Then I misplaced all management. I used to be working round leaping and flashing.

“Then the beers began flying. That’s not one thing that must be laughed at, somebody may get severely harm, however the complete scene that we created must be laughed at.

“The Netflix folks had been following us. Certainly one of them mentioned, ‘I by no means thought we might hear a golfer say, ‘Oh s***, I gotta put my garments again on!”

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