Matt Wallace has endured a rapid rise to prominence over the past two years. He won three times on the European Tour in 2018 and was one of the first players left off the European Ryder Cup team. Then, in 2019, he finished T3 and T12 in back-to-back majors and rose to 23rd in the Official World Golf Ranking.

Wallace then signed with Callaway ahead of the 2020 season and put 14 Callaway clubs in play, including the Callaway Mavrik driver. His goal was simple: play a more robust schedule in the United States, and get his first U.S. win.

Hotheaded Englishman Matt Wallace drew the ire of fans on social media on Sunday when he berated his caddie while in contention on the back nine of the BMW International in Munich.

Wallace’s visible frustration was caught on the SkySports broadcast throughout the round, coming to a head several times. On the par-3 12th, viewers reported Wallace’s anger with caddie Dave McNeilly after his tee shot sailed long.

Wallace, the defending champion, still stepped to the 18th tee very much in contention, needing a birdie to rejoin the lead. Instead, he hooked his tee shot into the water and went on to make bogey. Cameras picked up a tense moment with Wallace going at McNeilly again.

I watched him play the 18th and this is the only dialogue with the caddie on my DVR pic.twitter.com/tbPXZReTmS

— Matt Sylla (@mattsylla) June 24, 2019

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Matt Wallace raced to a tidy first round 69 at Bethpage Black on Thursday, thanks in large part to his performance on the green. The Englishman gained 3.3 strokes on the field and ranked 3rd in SG: Putting on the day. And he did it using an eye-catching grip that you might want to try yourself.

It’s called the two-thumb putting grip. Wallace interlocks his fingers so his palms are facing opposing each other, and as he grips the putter, he places his thumbs alongside one another. As you can see, he uses a specific grip to make it even easier.

What’s the point? Because by positioning your hands alongside one another on the grip, rather than with one above the other, it allows the shoulders to hang level with one another at address. Doing so forms a perfect triangle between both shoulders and the hands, which allows to rock on a pendulum motion more easily.

Here’s Francesco Molinari’s coach, Denis Pugh, talking about the technique.

The European Tour has been pumping out genuinely hilarious golf videos starring their pro golfers for years. But the Tour’s social team have truly outdone themselves with their latest pranking masterpiece. Not surprisingly, Tour funnyman Eddie Pepperell is very much involved.

For his latest comedic performance, Pepperell decided to have some fun with his friend and fellow English Tour pro Matt Wallace. But a normal prank wouldn’t do. Instead, Pepperell devised an elaborate fake media day to torture Wallace. And he filmed the whole experience.

The set-up: Wallace, the 2018 BMW International Open champion, was convinced he had to do a full day of promotion for the 2019 BMW event, including a voice over recording session and a BMW photo shoot.

The catch: Every person he came in contact with was in on the joke. Not only that, but they were all encouraged by Pepperell to give Wallace a hard time.

It begins with Wallace getting picked up late in the morning by a driver who deserves some kind of award for his appearance. Not only is he late, but he proceeds to pull faux pas after faux pas all day long, clearly getting on Wallace’s nerves from the get-go. Pepperell, meanwhile, sat in another car with a remote camera watching the events unfolded.

The driver first drops Wallace off for the voice over, where the director leads him through a painfully awkward recording session. It ends with Wallace agreeing to record one message in German, all while Pepperell laughs his head off in another room.

After that, it’s off to a photo shoot and interview at a BMW office. Wallace’s patience runs thin as the fake interviewer, who had Pepperell dictating lines through an ear piece, asks for selfie after selfie. Then, Wallace is accused of scratching an antique BMW sports car worth 2,000,000 pounds before being informed he might have to pay for it.

Check it out below.

Matt Wallace spent a whole day doing promotional work.

But it was all a prank… #TheFakeMediaDay pic.twitter.com/SycUorgLzS

— The European Tour (@EuropeanTour) May 13, 2019

Just as Wallace is about to truly blow his top, Pepperell enters disguised in a white hazmat suit. As soon as Pepperell opens his mouth, Wallace realizes who it is and what has happened. After learning the truth, he puts his hands over his face and screams “No! Oh my god, you’ve done me!”

It was all in good fun, but Pepperell would still be smart to watch his back over the next few months, as Wallace closes out the video by talking directly into the camera, saying, “There’s revenge involved somewhere down the line.”

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