Brian O'Driscoll's time at the top of Irish rugby has seen him meet some of the world's greatest sportspeople and collate quite the collection of memories, but few of them delivered quite the thrill that O'Driscoll's famous 2019 birdie putt in front of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy did.
However, while O'Driscoll's 25-foot putt may have brought a smile to Tiger Wood's face, the antics of O'Driscoll's playing partner had the complete opposite effect.
The incident happened during the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan when Brian O'Driscoll and three other rugby players including Mike Tindall, were paired with Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day, and Hideki Matsuyama who were also in Japan playing a skins game.
While the RWC promotions saw O'Driscoll and Tindall paired with the world-famous golfers for just a single hole, it was plenty of time for them to make their mark and cause their share of upset.
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Brian O'Driscoll reveals Mike Tindall's antics nearly ruined hole of golf with Tiger Woods
While Brian O'Driscoll's exploits sinking a sensational 25-foot putt in front of the golf's greatest-ever player has been well-documented, little has been made of the playing group's antics in the aftermath, which nearly cost Tiger Woods a prized possession.
Speaking on Mark Moriarty's podcast Roasted, O'Driscoll revealed how former England star Mike Tindall nearly walked off with Tiger Wood's prized ball marker.
Mike Tindall then - Tiger marks the ball and Tindall picks up the quarter, puts a ball down and puts it into his pocket. Tindall misses the putt, so Tiger is looking down to see where the marker is and it's not there, so he throws the ball down and knocks in the putt from twelve or thirteen foot and they walk off to the next tee, we all say our goodbyes.
Then Mark Steinberg, Tiger's manager comes over to Matt Dawson (ex-teammate of Tindall) and goes listen Dawson, you wouldn't have a word with your ex-teammate, the quarter that he took from Tiger, that's the quarter he's used for all fifteen of his majors, Tindall was like AWKward, he was lucky he didn't have a pocket full of quarters.
You can check out O'Driscoll's version of events from about 47:10 here:
In Mike Tindall's defence, in the run-of-the-mill, a quarter represents a fairly measly proportion of either a professional golfer's income or that of an English rugby star and member of the Royal Family.
However, clearly for Tiger Woods the value of his prized ball marker was much more than the twenty-five cents, with the American having delivered one of the greatest sporting comeback stories ever just months earlier when he won the Masters with the same quarter.
While another major win for Tiger looks unlikely, fortunately, he'll still have a trusty ball-marker to put it to the test.
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