Take Your Medicine!
Sahith Theegala’s tee shot on the 11th hole at the 2026 Baycurrent Classic in Japan finished somewhere golfers rarely wish to find themselves: up a tree. At Yokohama Country Club, the American could see a ball through his rangefinder but could not identify it as his own. Before he could take relief, he needed to establish that the ball among the branches belonged to him. His caddie tried throwing an umbrella into the tree to dislodge it. The umbrella got stuck too. They eventually managed to identify the ball, and Theegala took an unplayable-ball penalty before finishing the hole with a bogey. While the attempted retrieval was entirely legitimate, the scene was quite amusing.
