US Open 2024: “You almost killed me” – a professional reacts perfectly to a fan whom he almost hit with an errant shot during the training round | This is the Loop

While pros love to say that they practice extremely hard shots in their free time, it’s rare for them to do so during a practice round during tournament week. Players won’t try to track down their wild ride offline when they can simply reload with impunity.

It was a different story on Monday at Pinehurst during the Byeong Hun An match. After driving into what one fan described as a “bumpy area,” An didn’t pick it up, jam it with his foot, or leave it completely. He played as if he was supposed to play from Thursday.

Unfortunately, he didn’t play it right, he smashed it and almost killed a fan, according to the fan in question:

Instead of hiding from it, An immediately replied to the fan on X/Twitter as only he could:

Looks like Peter has cat reflexes. Fortunately, a disaster was avoided. Once again, An deserves credit for trying to get the shot off:

There will be plenty of brutal lies this week, so it’s not a bad idea to practice hitting them just in case, even if it means almost eliminating the fan.