Tiger Woods is no stranger to Internet stardom. He’s the most famous golfer in the history of the planet. He’s had incidents and accidents. He’s a never-ending comeback story, a 24/7 quote factory and once went on TRL with frosted tips. The guy just gets attention. It’s what he does.
But this is different.
For all Woods’ various peaks and valleys over the years, he’s never (and we mean NEVER) experienced a viral groundswell like this week, when he became an honest-to-goodness, even-non-golfers-are-tweeting-it meme thanks to one simple tap of the send button from No Laying Up.
Running into someone whose name I should definitely remember but I don’t pic.twitter.com/122NZABBNr
— No Laying Up (@NoLayingUp) December 18, 2023
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That tweet, featuring a screengshot pulled from last weekend’s PNC Championship, was seen over seven millions times by Thursday morning. It started a drip that became a trickle that became a river that blasted the dam wide open and went roaring straight for the center of Twitterville. Suddenly everyone found their own context for it—golf, finance, the holidays, drinking (lots and lots of drinking). One NFL player even used it to campaign for a Pro Bowl vote. The floodgates weren’t just open, they were and washed away.
Thanking the Mall Santa for taking a picture with your kids pic.twitter.com/A5h4iuYy5X
— Shooter McGavin (@ShooterMcGavin_) December 21, 2023
Me to the Home Depot employee when they say drill bits are Aisle 16, bottom left, end of row pic.twitter.com/df5xBk0qov
— Mezz (@for_yield) December 20, 2023
Me to my Uber driver after being nonverbal in the backseat the whole ride pic.twitter.com/bA9gPDKNyO
— SouthernMarshawn Lynch (@BartLongwood) December 20, 2023
Me to my crush in high school so he wouldn’t figure out he was my crush pic.twitter.com/pEzHgf8qGR
— claire rogers (@kclairerogers) December 20, 2023
Me to the wedding bartender as I come up for my 11th vodka soda pic.twitter.com/QAJ2OnEZ4p
— Carolyn Zacharias (@heycarolynz) December 20, 2023
Random dude in his 40s: “get me two gin and tonics and whatever he wants” *points at me blacked out at the bar*
Me: pic.twitter.com/U1Z55PLZSE— jake Muzzin (@Jake_Muzz8) December 20, 2023
Me to my 9-year-old’s friends, tryna be the cool dad pic.twitter.com/8tzwWCo2tE
— Will Bardwell (@willbardwell) December 21, 2023
Ancient Greeks when you ask what is guarding the entrance to Hades pic.twitter.com/EcV6MhNsDz
— Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens (@CSMFHT) December 21, 2023
Rolling up at the office holiday party as a fully remote worker pic.twitter.com/mIn9TmvUcl
— Morning Brew ☕️ (@MorningBrew) December 20, 2023
when i’m at the dog park and see a big dog pic.twitter.com/i3oey5i2sh
— mike drinks beer (@mikehunnidproof) December 20, 2023
Me to the people who retweet this tweet#ProBowlVote Blake Ferguson pic.twitter.com/p2BLdynJCG
— Blake Ferguson (@blakeferguson48) December 21, 2023
This meme belongs to the world now pic.twitter.com/556Tz3I9y3
— No Laying Up (@NoLayingUp) December 21, 2023
That’s just the appetizer course. There’s plenty more where those came from and we promise by the time this whole thing is over, you’ll be sick at the sight of that damn pink shirt. But for now congratulations for Big Cat (or should we say Big Dog?) are in order. It’s no 83rd win, but in today’s day and age, this is the biggest W you can get.
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This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
