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BETHESDA – Nobody ever laughs much during U.S. Open week.
Small wonder.
Howls, curses, grimaces and groans, players doubled over with heads in hands — those are the familiar sounds and sights that hold sway during golf's toughest test, beginning with the moment players set eyes on the brutal championship layout and lasting until the last putt drops mercifully on Sunday.
Not this year.
In what could charitably be called a pre-emptive strike on the game's most buttoned-down event, Ben Crane and pals Rickie Fowler, Bubba Watson and Hunter Mahan released their send-up of a boy-band video titled "Oh Oh Oh" earlier this week — poking fun at everything from how players dress to the exaggerated manners on display from tee to green.
To celebrate the launch, Crane, the band's leader and chief provocateur, arrived for the tournament's final practice session turned out in pink accents from the tip of his cap down to his saddle shoes.
"All these guys asked at some point if they could do a video and wanted to be in one and so, it just kind of fell into, you know, a boy band-type deal. So we became the golf boys," he chuckled. "It was kind of hot."
Judge for yourself on YouTube, where the two-minute long clip had already generated more than 130,000 hits by mid-afternoon Wednesday. It's not the kind of video you can imagine Jack Nicklaus or Arnold Palmer ever taking part in, though they once posed together in a famous photo wearing women's wigs.
Small wonder.
Howls, curses, grimaces and groans, players doubled over with heads in hands — those are the familiar sounds and sights that hold sway during golf's toughest test, beginning with the moment players set eyes on the brutal championship layout and lasting until the last putt drops mercifully on Sunday.
Not this year.
In what could charitably be called a pre-emptive strike on the game's most buttoned-down event, Ben Crane and pals Rickie Fowler, Bubba Watson and Hunter Mahan released their send-up of a boy-band video titled "Oh Oh Oh" earlier this week — poking fun at everything from how players dress to the exaggerated manners on display from tee to green.
To celebrate the launch, Crane, the band's leader and chief provocateur, arrived for the tournament's final practice session turned out in pink accents from the tip of his cap down to his saddle shoes.
"All these guys asked at some point if they could do a video and wanted to be in one and so, it just kind of fell into, you know, a boy band-type deal. So we became the golf boys," he chuckled. "It was kind of hot."
Judge for yourself on YouTube, where the two-minute long clip had already generated more than 130,000 hits by mid-afternoon Wednesday. It's not the kind of video you can imagine Jack Nicklaus or Arnold Palmer ever taking part in, though they once posed together in a famous photo wearing women's wigs.