PGA Tour turns a tree ricochet into a Monday mood
A red shot tracer records every unfortunate bounce in a Short that passed a million views in fourteen hours.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,579,595 views a day, 25 times a normal first day on this channel (62,635).
Back to work 🥲
The ball hits a branch overhead, bounces backward and finishes behind the golfer. The red shot tracer follows along, helpfully documenting a journey nobody holding a club would want to make.
PGA Tour calls the Short "Back to work 🥲", with an on-screen caption imagining Monday as a golf shot. There is no elaborate setup: a professional swings from between large tree trunks, then watches the ball roll to a stop in the wrong direction.
The clip reached roughly 1.2 million views before its first full day, far beyond the channel's usual start for Shorts. Its comment section supplies the amateur-golfer perspective: viewers recall their own encounters with trees, point out that at least the ball won't need finding, and single out the tracer for making the reversal so easy to follow. One says every day on the course feels like Monday.
There is a happier golfing story elsewhere on the channel. Its video of teenage golfer Blades Brown's first PGA Tour win in a playoff also drew an unusually strong start. A separate upload shows Brown sharing the moment with his mother, Rhonda: a very different finish from watching a ball return to your feet.
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What viewers say
I love the shot tracer😂😂😂
@coryce258See it on YouTubeAt least he didn’t have to look for it!!
@pickuptruk4584See it on YouTubeFor me every day on the golf course is Monday.
@darklordojedaSee it on YouTube
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Been there, done that!
@MyUsernameIsGuessSee it on YouTubeball came back like im gonna have to ask you to do that again😂😂😂😂
@WhoAmiiiiiiii5027See it on YouTubeI always seem to get the purest contact on these shots too
@AlexCamerooonSee it on YouTubeI always aim at the tree , that way I know Ill miss it
@firehorse5206See it on YouTubeThe crowd sounds like from my 1995 PGA golf game
@FlynbourneSee it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- PGA Tour
- Subscribers
- 1,780,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 7,887,252
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,268,383 (on a normal day: 1,028,564)
- Video published
- November 9, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,181,973 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,579,595
The numbers
The tree-shot Short passed a million views before its first full day. Blades Brown's playoff-win video also opened well above the channel's usual pace for regular videos.
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