PGA Tour caddie documents harrowing (and hilarious) winter golf experience in Idaho

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Today in Australia we’re welcoming the official start of summer (although we understand many people prefer to wait until the solstice in three weeks to fully acknowledge it, and that’s fine). But in the northern hemisphere, golfers are already facing wintry conditions – conditions even Tasmanians and Kiwis can’t comprehend.

Many courses are frozen, the birds have migrated south for the season and, at best, golfers are rocking layer upon layer looking like the Michelin Man went to Kmart. Not only is no golfer’s game ready for this, but the greens themselves need a break, best exemplified by this frosty shot captured by PGA Tour caddie and Netflix star Geno Bonnalie.

Bonnalie seems to attract bizarre golf scenarios from his own player Joel Dahmen to other golfers that he happens upon while out and about, and this video, recorded next to the eighth hole at the Lewiston Golf & Country Club in Idaho, is no different.

“Welcome to winter golf in northern Idaho,” Bonnalie’s Twitter caption reads.

“Here we go. My buddy Bob out here, 102 yards on this short par 3 on this brisk Wednesday afternoon – 3pm here in northern Idaho,” Bonnalie commentates. “Greens frozen solid. Let’s see if he’s able to finagle one here between the bunker and the green. Oh no, this is going to land on the green, ladies and gentlemen.

“Oop! There she goes. That’s going to be down in the next tee box, unfortunately.”

The frozen green certainly gave no leeway to this unfortunate soul who went from a solid birdie chance to searching for his ball in this northern Idaho version of an arctic tundra in the blink of an eye.

Other social media comments poke fun at the frigid conditions with such witticisms as “Trampogreens”, “I thought he froze over the ball”, and “So hitting the green is a new hazard”. Brutal stuff from social media… and the golf course.

We appreciate Bonnalie seizing on this poor sap’s misfortune and documenting it for the whole internet to see, but perhaps this shows why hitting the course in winter weather is a fool’s errand. Hopefully, “Bob” got a hot toddy post-round, because he’ll definitely going to need a drink after a bounce like that.

For those of us sunning ourselves in early summer Down Under, soak up the next three months and enjoy them, because what you just watched from Idaho is the chilly alternative.