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PGA Tour Player Hilariously Topples Over After Bunker Shot at Valspar Championship

Cameron Percy showed the physical side of golf on Friday at Innisbrook.

Gabrielle Herzig

PGA Tour Player Hilariously Topples Over After Bunker Shot at Valspar Championship
PGA Tour Player Hilariously Topples Over After Bunker Shot at Valspar Championship /

Being a top-tier golfer takes a particular type of physical skill, but is golf itself a “physical” sport? Most would say no, but this bunker shot from the PGA Tour’s Cameron Percy might demonstrate otherwise. 

On Friday, cameras caught Percy attempting a rather awkward bunker shot on the 4th hole of Innisbrook’s Copperhead course. Percy perched one leg on the bank of the bunker and anchored the other into the sand. Unfortunately for the 48-year-old, however, that state of balance didn’t last very long. 

Percy took a whack at the shot, lost his stance, and toppled over, almost rolling into the bunker. At one point Percy was nearly laying flat on his face, but he managed to look up in time to see his ball come to a rest on the putting surface. 

Percy made a bogey after the mishap, but with an early eagle on his card, he has a solid chance to play the weekend at the Valspar Championship. 

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Gabrielle Herzig
GABRIELLE HERZIG

Gabrielle Herzig is a Breaking and Trending News writer for Sports Illustrated Golf. Previously, she worked as a Golf Digest Contributing Editor, an NBC Sports Digital Editorial Intern, and a Production Runner for FOX Sports at the site of the 2018 U.S. Open. Gabrielle graduated as a Politics Major from Pomona College in Claremont, California, where she was a four-year member and senior-year captain of the Pomona-Pitzer women’s golf team. In her junior year, Gabrielle studied abroad in Scotland for three months, where she explored the Home of Golf by joining the Edinburgh University Golf Club.

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