This is not a photoshop! The movie was taken at this weekend's Ryder Cup, mere nano-seconds earlier the ball hit camerman Mark Pain's camera.
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Check that exposure from the weekend's Ryder Cup action. No, it's not staged or Photoshopped.
That's really Tiger Woods hitting a golf ball straight at the camera.
How'd it pass? By mistake. The cameraman, Mark Pain of the Daily Mail,was in the right place on the 18th hole when Woods flat-out duffedhis shot. The ball hit Pain's camera and dropped to the ground. Butunlike many instances when Woods and caddy Stevie Williams have takenissue with photographers, Tiger had naught to say here. He knew he wasin the wrong, not Pain.
(Aside: best portion of the heading in thispicture? The smiling dude with the cigar on the good position of the frame.He's the sole thing about this picture that looks fake. The balance of the history and corresponding high resolution pictures from the Daily Mail:
Thisis the second when Mail on Sunday photographer Mark Pain found himselfin the course of firing at the Ryder Cup - and for a brief moment broughtthe mighty Tiger Woods to a juddering halt.
TheAmerican world No 1 was partnering Steve Stricker and attempting tochip his third shot on the last hole of yesterday morning's fourballagainst Europe's Ian Poulter and Ross Fisher on to the green.
Smile, Tiger: Woods shoots straight at photographer Pain
But Woods hit the base behind the globe and duffed the stroke straight at Pain.
Theman from The Post on Sunday didn't flinch, however, and captured thisextraordinary picture just before the ball hit his camera, bounced on tohis chest and came to stay at his feet.
Woods was angry about his blunder, but neither he nor caddie Steve Williams objected to Pain's position.
Time to leave: Pain (in blue bib) makes a sharp exit as Woods looks on
The Americans accepted that the ballhad hit the intrepid photographer only because Tiger's effort, fromrain-soaked rough, had been so badly struck.
Butit did enable Pain to pulling off a much better guess than Woods had made -and nothing could stop Tiger and Stricker from completing a decisivevictory over their European opponents.