The professional female golfer who went viral when an amateur male golfer attempted to correct her swing didn’t want to call out the stranger during the “awkward” exchange, but now sees the “funny side.”
Georgia Ball, who is also a certified PGA instructor, was focused on her swing when the stranger interrupted her with unsolicited advice at a driving range near Liverpool.
“It was an awkward conversation at the time but I was just concentrating on what I was doing,” Ball told Sky Sports. “I am glad I can look back on it now and see the funny side to it.”
Ball, who has over 185K followers on TikTok and regularly posts golfing tips, was tempted to put the man — who claimed to have “20 years” of golf experience — in his place, but opted to be the bigger person.
“To be honest, I am a humble person,” she told the outlet. “It is not in me to call him out or say I am a PGA pro, it is just not in me to do that.”
“I have a lot of conversations with a lot of different people. All of the things I receive are positive and I am always up for tips and advice but everything I do get is mostly supportive.”
Ball was practicing her swing at the driving range when the man approached her after one of her shots.
The video in which Ball titled, “Can you believe he said this?” has been viewed nearly 15 million times.
“Excuse me, what you’re doing there, you shouldn’t be doing that… swing and follow through,” he told Ball, adding she was “too slow on the way up.”
Ball tried to tell the man she was “going through a swing change” throughout the video as he stood off camera and continued to instruct a proper swing.
“See how much better that was?” he told Ball after her next shot.
“I just carried on doing what I was doing, working on my swing,” Ball told the outlet. “It was an awkward conversation at the time but as I say, I was just concentrating on what I was doing.
The Liverpool native told Sky Sports that she never got a chance to check out the man’s swing to see if he was as legit at golf as he thought he passed himself off to be while giving her the unwanted tip.
However, Ball admitted to BBC Newsbeat the man was “right in what he said” about her swing, but how he advised her infuriated her fans — adding the reactions she’s received since the video went viral have been “so positive.”
Users across TikTok were shocked over Ball’s 90-second clip as many accused the man of “mansplaining.”
“As a guy, this is the first time I’ve actually seen ‘mansplaining’ happen,” one user wrote.
“The whole point of that interaction was to let you know he played golf for 20 years lol,” another jokingly pointed out.
“How you kept your composure is admirable. I wouldn’t have been so kind,” another commented.
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