- A professional female golfer was caught by a stranger
- Georgia Ball enjoyed a quiet practice session on her driving range
- A stranger advised her on her golf swing
A golf clip has gone viral after a man corrected a woman’s golf swing while she was practicing on a driving range.
Georgia Ball, a professional golfer and coach from Britain, was enjoying a quiet hit earlier this week when a man offered unwanted advice.
After she hit a ball, the man – who claimed to have played golf for more than 20 years – said “excuse me” before lecturing her for not using proper technique.
The act of a man condescendingly telling a woman how to do something is known as “mansplaining.”
The stranger explained that Ball swung too slowly and that in his opinion it affected her play.
“What you’re doing there… you shouldn’t be doing that,” he claimed.
Professional golfer Georgia Ball was advised on her technique by a stranger
A somewhat bewildered Ball told him she was working on a new technique, but he interrupted again, insisting he knew best.
He explained that he had been playing golf for over twenty years and insisted that she needed to work on her follow-up.
Ball ignored the man’s advice and turned her next drive perfectly to center, but the stranger believed his stoppage was therefore justified.
“See how much better that was?” he said, taking credit.
She reiterated that she was making a swing change, adding that the best players in the world often slow down when they make an adjustment.
But the man disagreed and once again laid out his credentials as a golfer of more than two decades to reject Ball’s position.
Ball has more than 170,000 followers, all of whom were shocked by her experience but praised her for her classy response to the stranger.
Ball has more than 170,000 followers on Instagram and coaches amateur golfers
“You are a better person than 99% of the people on Instagram who are so calm in this situation,” one fan said.
Another added: “I thought you were so patient and polite to him… I don’t know how you did it?!”
A third golfer replied: ‘Look how much better that was, even though you didn’t change anything, great.’
“That was painful to watch,” said a fourth follower.
