When Golf Channel's Johnson Wagner releases his greatest hits album in a couple years, the first single is obviously going to be "throwing balls as hard as he can at a bank by the water" from this year's Player Championship. But now, we here at Digest submit that golf's version of Bear Grylls has a new banger for the collection. Today, in the aftermath of the Xander Schauffele rules "controversy" from Thursday at the Wells Fargo Championship, when he got relief from a ball buried deep in the woods due to a wire from a shotlink tower (infuriating the Internet in the process), Wagner was on hand to recreate the moment with Tour rules official David Donnelly. It's another brilliant hands-on video from Wagner, both entertaining and informative. Take a watch:
Nobody's saying this isn't a bizarre situation—it very much is. But the beauty of Wagner's video is that it breaks the whole thing down point by point, and in the end, despite the apparent strangeness of it, it all ends up looking justified. We have to tip our caps to Wagner...we came to watch him muck around in the woods, but without expecting it, we also learned something.
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