--- title: Ryder Cup Heckler Gets Challenged to Putt and Wins $100 description: And he was wearing jeans canonical: https://time.com/4513731/ryder-cup-american-heckler-putt/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-29T20:03:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T10:13:30.099Z article:section: Sports og:title: Ryder Cup Heckler Gets Challenged to Putt, Sinks It, Wins $100 og:description: And he was wearing jeans og:url: https://time.com/4513731/ryder-cup-american-heckler-putt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f3ad30e65959c1e/6988a81f0a4a2264d89cb74d/ryder-cup-david-johnson-american-heckler-team-europe-putt-challenge.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2016 Ryder Cup - Previews og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ryder Cup Heckler Gets Challenged to Putt, Sinks It, Wins $100 twitter:description: And he was wearing jeans twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f3ad30e65959c1e/6988a81f0a4a2264d89cb74d/ryder-cup-david-johnson-american-heckler-team-europe-putt-challenge.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # American Heckler at Ryder Cup Gets Challenged to Putt, Sinks It, Wins $100 by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Sep 29, 2016 8:03 PM UTC  Fan David Johnson of North Dakota reacts after being pulled from the crowd and making a putt on the eighth green during practice prior to the 2016 Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National Golf Club on Sept. 29, 2016 in Chaska, Minnesota. Fan David Johnson of North Dakota reacts after being pulled from the crowd and making a putt on the eighth green during practice prior to the 2016 Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National Golf Club on Sept. 29, 2016 in Chaska, Minnesota.David Cannon—Getty Images by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Sep 29, 2016 8:03 PM UTC It’s not too often that hecklers wind up the heroes in any story. But golf fan and North Dakota native David Johnson stole the show during a Ryder Cup practice round at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota on Thursday. After British Open champion and Olympic silver medalist Henrik Stenson heard Johnson trash talking Team Europe players, the [Twin Cities _Pioneer Press_ reported](http://www.twincities.com/2016/09/29/ryder-cup-heckler-henrik-stenson-sinks-putt/), he invited the fan onto the green to make a putt. As Johnson got ready to putt, Stenson’s teammate Justin Rose dropped a $100 bill next to the ball, heightening the drama. > [](https://twitter.com/McIlroyRory/status/781535441233162241) Johnson, who was dressed in jeans at the time, drilled the ball strait into the hole. He gave a big fist pump after his success, and once he was back in the gallery, he joked he “blacked out a while ago,” according to the _Pioneer Press_. “I closed my eyes, swallowed my puke, and hit the putt that happened to go in, so that was cool,” he said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4513731/ryder-cup-american-heckler-putt/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4513731/ryder-cup-american-heckler-putt/"},"headline":"American Heckler at Ryder Cup Gets Challenged to Putt, Sinks It, Wins $100","datePublished":"2016-09-29T20:03:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:13:30.099Z","description":"And he was wearing jeans","url":"https://time.com/4513731/ryder-cup-american-heckler-putt/","keywords":["golf"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f3ad30e65959c1e/6988a81f0a4a2264d89cb74d/ryder-cup-david-johnson-american-heckler-team-europe-putt-challenge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f3ad30e65959c1e/6988a81f0a4a2264d89cb74d/ryder-cup-david-johnson-american-heckler-team-europe-putt-challenge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2016 Ryder Cup - Previews","caption":"2016 Ryder Cup - Previews","creditText":"David Cannon—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/golf/","name":"golf"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4513731/ryder-cup-american-heckler-putt/","name":"American Heckler at Ryder Cup Gets Challenged to Putt, Sinks It, Wins $100"}}]}] ```