The shout was one word. The tweet was two. The reactions were a little longer. Including one from a former Ryder Cup captain.
“When you get a tweet wrong…” Thomas Bjorn wrote.
The comments came after a tweet from the PGA Tour’s Twitter account during Friday’s second round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. After Nicolai Hojgaard hit a fairway metal right and toward the gallery around a green at Bay Hill, pointed right and twice yelled “fore,” the Tour posted a 13-second video of the sequence, along with the words “Volume DOWN,” and a wide-eyed emoji.
Bjorn, a 19-time winner internationally and the winning Ryder Cup captain in 2019, responded 11 hours later. Current players Ross Fisher and Robert MacIntyre also replied, as did fans.
“Why volume down,” tweeted Fisher. You miss a shot and it heads towards the crowd you shout LOUD to warn them. That’s what your told at a young age. Good on you Nicolai.”
“No comment,” tweeted MacIntyre, who added two clapping hands emojis. At the 2019 Open Championship, according to the Scotsman, MacIntyre confronted playing partner Kyle Stanley after MacIntyre said Stanley did not yell fore after hitting into fans.
“My playing partner doesn’t shout ‘fore’, his ball goes into the crowd, we’re shouting ‘fore’ as the ball is coming into the crowd,” MacIntyre said at the time. “He’s just standing watching it. And people didn’t have enough time to react when we shouted.”
The Tour also shared the video on its Instagram account, with a comment of “this is a textbook FORE call,” though it was also at some point edited. (Tweets, of course, can’t be edited.) That post drew a comment from Shane Lowry.
“That’s how us Europeans do it….” he wrote.
