Hopefully John Daly can keep out of the mud

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PGA touring pros will do virtually anything to preserve strokes in tournament play, and Sweden’s Henrik Stenson is no exception. After driving his tee shot into some mud on the third hole at the WGC-CA Championship at Doral on Thursday afternoon, Stenson saw he could play the ball but knew that swinging would muddy up his clothes like the ‘before’ portion of a Tide commercial. So he did the only truly natural thing and stripped down:

It worked. Stenson made his five, and finished three under for the day. In clean clothes. In other news, Google searches for ‘Nudist Golf’ have quintupled over the last 24 hours.

-- Brian Kamenetzky