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Fan interference

Images of noted fan interference incidents in golf, from helpful moves to distracting streakers.

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Peter Jacobsen tackles a streaker on the 18th green at the 1985 Open Championship at Royal St. George’s.

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A female streaker ran out onto the 11th hole Sunday of the 2003 U.S. Open at Olympia Fields to try and hand eventual winner Jim Furyk flowers.

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Unaware that he was playing from a bunker, which had been trampled by fans all week, Dustin Johnson grounded his club on the 72nd hole at Whistling Straits. The penalty caused him to miss out on a playoff.

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Hubert Green, sporting a funny hat next to Jack Nicklaus, faced serious matters in the 1977 U.S. Open. Green played the final round in Southern Hills under a death threat and still prevailed.

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Padraig Harrington, like Juli Inkster and Camilo Villegas before him, was disqualified from an event after a TV viewer called in a rules infraction after he signed his scorecard.

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Colin Montgomerie, long the subject of verbal abuse by U.S. fans, was taunted so badly at Brookline that his father walked off the course Sunday. After the U.S. had clinched the Cup, the late Payne Stewart graciously conceded the match to Montgomerie.

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With Chris DiMarco standing over a birdie putt on the rowdy par-3 16th hole Sunday, a fan screamed out ‘Noonan!’, in reference to ‘Caddyshack’. DiMarco made the putt, signaled to security to remove the offender and went on to win the tournament.

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After winning the 1995 Open Championship at St. Andrews in a playoff, John Daly is greeted by his then wife Paulette and a U.K. streaker.

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A streaker is removed from the 18th green in the final round of the 2003 Open Championship at Royal St. George’s.

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Tiger Woods had fans move a boulder, deemed a ‘loose impediment’, which was blocking his shot on the 13th hole in the final round of the 1999 Phoenix Open.

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Comedian and actor Bill Murray throws an elderly fan into the sand trap during the 1999 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

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Sergio Garcia was mercilessly heckled by New York fans for his constant gripping and re-gripping during the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black.

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A very proud streaker poses to the crowd in the 1999 Benson and Hedges International Open.

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Jeff Sluman had a birdie putt on the par-3 17th, the second hole of a sudden-death playoff, to win The Players. He missed, however, after a fan jumped in the lake and distracted him. Sandy Lyle won the event on the next hole.

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A female streaker - and team USA fan - ran out onto the 18th hole during Sunday singles of the 2013 Presidents Cup. (Getty Images)

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A fan heckling Tiger Woods in the final round of the 1999 Phoenix Open was arrested after police discovered a handgun concealed in his fanny pack.

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Police arrest a fathers for justice protestor after paint bombs are thrown onto the 18th green during the final round of the 2006 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club.

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As 2012 U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson was being interviewed by Bob Costas at the trophy ceremony, a rather odd gentleman sporting a Union Jack hat entered the frame and began squawking like a bird. He was then promptly forced out of view and off the property in large part thanks to USGA’s very own Mike Davis. It was later discovered that he calls himself Jungle Bird and his cause? To stop deforestation.