Before Rory McIlroy became a back-to-back Masters champion, he handed his golf bag to a pop star — and the internet got one of its favorite sports crossover moments.
At the 2015 Masters Par-3 Contest, One Direction’s Niall Horan served as McIlroy’s celebrity caddie at Augusta National. The pairing of a global music star and the world No. 1 golfer was already drawing cameras. Then Horan slipped on pine straw, right before an on-camera interview, and the moment became a widely shared clip that fans still revisit more than a decade later.
Broadcaster Kirsty Gallacher, who was about to interview t...
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