Welp, he wore them. Billy Horschel talked to CSN's Neil Hartman the other day about the sure-to-be infamous octopus pants he planned to wear for today's final round of the 2013 U.S. Open and today he put them on just like any other man who puts on octopus pants: one leg at a time.
He also tweeted the below photo of the pants prior to heading to Merion this morning.
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Personally, I'm a fan. Two big thumbs up. Or eight tentacles or whatever.
Yahoo!'s Kevin Kaduk has more on the pants and notes that they shorts version of the octopi are available for purchase for a cool 98 bucks.
Horschel enters Sunday right in the hunt for the trophy, sitting at +1 entering the round putting him two strokes back of current leader Phil Mickelson. Horschel tees off at 2:47 today.
Well here they are! The highly anticipated highly controversial....Octopus pants! Great outfits all week by RLX! pic.twitter.com/UrQwSYWZkB
— Billy Horschel (@BillyHo_Golf) June 16, 2013