This week’s cease on the PGA Tour, the Rocket Mortgage Traditional, will characteristic a brand new American cult hero who has risen from obscurity in distinctive vogue.
Nick Bienz was going viral throughout social media on Tuesday after he received a Monday qualifier to achieve the 156-player occasion, which has a $9.2 million (A$13.8m) purse.
Bienz has by no means performed a PGA Tour-sanctioned occasion earlier than, whereas he’s meant to be going again to his day job at US retailer Golf Galaxy.
However these particulars alone weren’t sufficient to make him go viral — relatively it’s what he did earlier than the playoff that struck a chord with many weekend golfers.
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Confronted with a frightening five-way playoff, Bienz determined to calm his nerves with a beer.
After which one other, and one other.
Bienz stood on the tee of the primary playoff gap having simply pounded three beers.
He emerged triumphant eight holes later having outgunned Danny Guise, Angelo Giantsopoulos, Brandon Berry and Beau Breault.
“I’ve to name my boss and name off work tomorrow for positive,” Bienz mentioned after his spherical, in response to Golfweek.
“I’m imagined to be there at 7:30 within the morning (Tuesday) and I don’t suppose that’s going to occur.”
The Rocket Mortgage Traditional begins on Thursday with Tom Kim, Cameron Younger and Akshay Bhatia the top-30 gamers within the area.
Australians embody Min Woo Lee, Aaron Baddeley, Cam Davis and Harrison Endycott.