Cigar Guy is a photoshop meme stemming from a photograph of professional golfer Tiger Woods taken during the 2010 Ryder Cup[1] in Wales, United Kingdom. The image initially began circulating online for its perfectly-timed capture of Tiger Wood’s ball flying straight towards the camera, but the Internet’s attention soon shifted to a spectator wearing a turban and fake mustache in the crowd, who was eventually dubbed “Cigar Guy.”
Origin
During the 2010 Ryder Cup held on October 3rd, 2010, the Daily Mail photographer Mark Pain was hit with a golf ball as Tiger Woods was attempting to make a chip shot in the last hole of the round. Just before the ball hit the lens of Pain’s camera, he snapped a photograph capturing the ball in mid-air, Wood’s look of concern and the curious gazes of the crowd. It was subsequently posted on the Daily Mail website.