Travelers Championship fan takes a tumble trying to dodge incoming golf ball

When the ball takes an unexpected hop, this fan sold out to avoid influencing the tournament in any way.

This is fan commitment to not influence a golf tournament in absolutely any way. A bystander at the Travelers Championship thought he’d found a safe spot behind a bunker and on a rope line in the middle of a hole, but a bad kick off a mound forced him to think quick.

He could have just let the ball gently roll into his foot. Or used his chair, bag, or some other nearby prop to block it. But instead, he sold out so as to not impact its natural path and paid the price in the process.

We often see players catch huge breaks when a fan is used as a backboard and knocks the ball back into play. But this Travelers patron would suffer no such indignity, instead opting to entertain us watching at home with a slow-motion tumble.

A bubbling controversy among golf nerds who watch the PGA Tour each week is also players not marking their ball up on the green and providing a backboard of sorts for a potentially fast-moving chip shot. You’re supposed to get up there and mark your ball, because if you don't and he uses it as a wall of sorts, you’re not protecting the rest of the field. Thus the ingenious hashtag from this golf fan watching at home.