--- title: Luke Fitzgerald Swings Golf Club, Misses in Facebook Video description: Golfer Rory McIlroy posts video of Irish rugby player Luke Fitzgerald swinging a golf club and losing it canonical: https://time.com/4070755/rory-mcilroy-golf-club-swing/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-12T22:02:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:01.959Z og:title: Watch Rory McIlroy's Golf Lesson to an Irish Rugby Player Go Hilariously Wrong og:description: Fore! og:url: https://time.com/4070755/rory-mcilroy-golf-club-swing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Rory McIlroy's Golf Lesson to an Irish Rugby Player Go Hilariously Wrong twitter:description: Fore! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Rory McIlroy's Golf Lesson to an Irish Rugby Player Go Horribly Wrong ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 12, 2015 10:02 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 12, 2015 10:02 PM UTC Professional golfer Rory McIlroy shared a hilarious video on Facebook Monday that shows Luke Fitzgerald, who plays for Ireland’s rugby team, swinging—and very much missing. He lets go of the club mid-swing at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales, leaving a divot for the ages. But what’s almost better than the shot is the laughter that ensues. The video has been [shared](https://www.facebook.com/RoryMcIlroy/videos/vb.152976388115795/907121399367953/?type=2&theater) more than 5,300 times at the time of publication. And McIlroy did note in the Facebook comments that some members of the team hit good shots. And fortunately for Fitzgerald, he did not seem to be in the middle of an important game when he goofed up that shot. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4070755/rory-mcilroy-golf-club-swing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4070755/rory-mcilroy-golf-club-swing/"},"headline":"Watch Rory McIlroy's Golf Lesson to an Irish Rugby Player Go Horribly Wrong","datePublished":"2015-10-12T22:02:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:01.959Z","description":"Fore!","url":"https://time.com/4070755/rory-mcilroy-golf-club-swing/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4070755/rory-mcilroy-golf-club-swing/","name":"Watch Rory McIlroy's Golf Lesson to an Irish Rugby Player Go Horribly Wrong"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4070755/rory-mcilroy-golf-club-swing/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4070755/rory-mcilroy-golf-club-swing/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```