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- Updated: May 6, 2016
While trying to become the first three-time winner of the Wells Fargo Championship, Rory McIlroy, as well as playing partner Rickie Fowler, dealt with another distraction Thursday in the form of a thrown golf ball with an earplug attached to it.
After McIlroy teed off on the 250-yard par-three sixth hole, his partner stepped up amid rain-soaked and windy conditions before a fan threw the object toward the 27-year-old Fowler.
“So random,” Fowler said, per the Associated Press (via ESPN.com). “The guy tried to say it was a gift. I don’t know why you would give a gift of a golf ball with an earplug attached to it.”
McIlroy also agreed that the gift seemed bizarre.
“It was one of those things,” he said. “It was a golf ball with an earplug stuck on it, so it was sort of …
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