The golf world is gathered at a familiar location this week for one of the most prestigious tournaments of the year. The Players Championship gets underway at TPC Sawgrass on Thursday with the first round,

Rory McIlroy made waves both online and within the golf community this week after taking a heckler’s phone. A now viral video shared to social media platforms such as X, shows the pro golfer, 35, walking over to someone on the sidelines, asking for their phone and walking away with it at TPC Sawgrass in Florida on Tuesday, March 11.

Rory McIlroy is fighting atop the leaderboard amid the second round of the 2025 Players Championship on Friday, yet most of the public attention on him is more concerned with what happened during a practice round at TPC Sawgrass earlier this week.