3<\/p>\n Gyokeres completely scuffed his shot straight into the waterCredit: X<\/p>\n Gyokeres<\/a> has been enjoying his free time in the days following Sweden’s elimination from the World Cup<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n His nation were beaten 3-0 by an incredible France side<\/a> to bow out of the tournament in the round of 32 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n But the 28-year-old front man has been trying to take his mind off the loss by playing some golf.<\/p>\n Although he may now regret that decision after his error…<\/p>\n READ MORE ON FOOTBALL<\/p>\n Gyokeres found himself right on the water’s edge as he set himself up to take his next shot on the golf course. <\/p>\n He took a few seconds to focus before taking a swipe at the ball, but he scuffed it completely, sending a chunk of grass flying.<\/p>\n And he could do nothing but watch as his ball dropped a few yards in front of him, hitting the grass and bouncing into the water. <\/p>\n Gyokeres then turned to the camera and started laughing, accepting defeat in the embarrassing moment.<\/p>\n Fans have since reacted on social media after the video was shared, with many sending floods of laughing emojis.<\/p>\n Another joked ‘Plays golf like he plays football’, while a third posted: “Surprised he didn\u2019t dive in the water after it.”<\/p>\n 3<\/p>\n Gyokeres was left red-faced as he watched his ball splash into the waterCredit: X 3<\/p>\n And he’s now given Peter Crouch a run for his money when it comes to terrible golf shotsCredit: TikTok: @bengummery1Crouch has competition<\/p>\n Gyokeres’ terrible golf shot may now take Peter Crouch<\/a>‘s title of the footballer with the worst effort of all time<\/a>.<\/p>\n In June 2025, a video emerged of Crouch messing up a tee shot so badly that onlookers burst into tears of laughter.<\/p>\n He stood over the tee box with a driver in hand, with some heckling going on as he prepared to hit the ball.<\/p>\n And the pressure appeared to get to him, as the legendary ex-striker topped the ball and sent it into the trees. <\/p>\n Crouch then reacted to the video being shared around on social media, writing: “Can everyone not share this pls.”<\/p>\n Now, Gyokeres will be sharing those same thoughts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viktor Gyokeres fell victim to the golf course after Sweden exited the World Cup – and unfortunately, it’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,12439,12440,12441,8084,12435,12436,12437,8395,12438],"class_list":["post-30910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-golf","tag-peter-crouch","tag-peter-crouch-golf","tag-peter-crouch-golf-shot","tag-sweden","tag-viktor-gyokeres","tag-viktor-gyokeres-golf","tag-viktor-gyokeres-golf-shot","tag-world-cup","tag-worst-gold-shot-ever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Viktor](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/viktor-gy-keres-enjoying-time-1092658923.jpg\")
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