A photo of Tiger Woods appearing to shake hands with a tree became an instant viral meme.
The photo was taken at Georgia's Augusta National Golf Club during the 88th Masters Tournament—the first of the PGA's four major golf championships. Woods was playing his 100th round in the PGA Majors.
A photographer snapped the photo of Woods as he stopped to greet someone obscured by a large tree trunk. Due to the angle of the shot, it gave the illusion that the World Golf Hall of Fame inductee was chumming it up with an anthropomorphic tree.
Sports Illustrated and other sports media outlets dug to the root of the mystery and identified the unseen hand-shaker as retiring legendary CBS announcer Verne Lundquist. Sunday was Lundquist’s 40th annual and final Masters assignment at Augusta National.
But the internet found the combination of Woods and a tree irresistible.
Amateur comedians were inspired to log in for the fun.
It was acorn-y internet moment.
But it was one you couldn't leaf without smiling about.
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