As you may remember, Tiger Woods, paired with Steve Stricker, fluffed a chip on the final hole in the fourball match against Ian Poulter and Ross Fisher on Saturday morning of the Ryder Cup. (Woods and Stricker ended up winning, largely thanks to Stricker.) Apparently, photographer Mark Pain was in the right place at the right time (or wrong place at the right time), snapping an absolutely priceless picture right before Tiger’s ball hit the camera and then bounced off Pain’s chest. (A little ironic the photog’s name is pain, eh?)
Now, everybody’s face is pretty awesome in the picture, but the man with the cigar’s is especially captivating. Just see the other photoshopped versions of the photo circulating around the interwebs.
[Original photo by Mark Pain/Daily Mail]





October 3rd, 2010 on 7:09 pm
That’s fantastic Steph. Cigar Man is priceless. And I like Steve Williams’s look too. I’d say he’s thinking ‘Hmm, curious line boss.’
October 3rd, 2010 on 7:11 pm
Funny stuff. Thanks for blogging about the out of the ordinary Ryder Cup happenings.
October 3rd, 2010 on 8:03 pm
BOOM! Different angle: http://rydercupgallery.pga.com/gallery/Ryder_Cup_Saturday#image=0axmbAs12C0sP&view=filmstrip
October 3rd, 2010 on 11:09 pm
Fantastic pic! It is bizarre how it looks with everyone in the pic is looking straight at the camera lens. And then to have Cigar Man top it off.
October 3rd, 2010 on 11:11 pm
Hilarious stuff! Thanks Steph. We really needed this to keep us from jumping off the building after watching the powder blue puff guys getting their asses handed to them.
October 4th, 2010 on 7:57 am
Haha.. That photo is great. I was just gonna send you the photoshopped version, but saw you already had it. Nice.
October 4th, 2010 on 1:02 pm
Stephanie, a ball hitting the chest of a photographer named Pain is not irony hun, it’s a coincidence.
October 4th, 2010 on 1:24 pm
I like it a lot! Thanks for posting it.
October 4th, 2010 on 5:09 pm
go reddit….
October 5th, 2010 on 8:22 am
I knew Super Mario was real! He shouldn’t be smoking a cigar in public, set’s a bad example for the kid’s!
October 7th, 2010 on 12:51 pm
They have now identified Cigar Man
http://www.mytwistnews.com/2010/10/ryder-cup-cigar-man-identified.html