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‘Either someone died or cheated’: Wife of the year makes once-in-a-lifetime golf thrift find

March 24, 2025

The best thrift store haul is usually a slightly used pair of jeans and maybe a cool DVD, so we can’t imagine it getting much better than a personal makeshift Hot List selection of Cobra clubs with a Scotty Cameron putter thrown in to boot.

That may seem like an exaggeration, but this early candidate for Wife of the Year found a Ping bag loaded with top-of-the-line clubs for a ridiculous price of $19.99. (Please drop your pin!) Some people have all the luck, and this man can never say a bad word again about his significant other’s thrifting TikTok. As Tiger Woods recently said, “Love is in the air.”

“I think I just won Wife of the Year,” thrifting guru Caroline Ecker writes. “When you send your husband a video from the thrift store asking if he wants these golf clubs … and he calls you immediately freaking out. Anyone know why?”

Well, we definitely know why. As do the comments with everyone treating this find as if it's an island green ace … which it kind of is. Here are just a few of the excited commenters rooting on this once-in-a-lifetime find:

“Imagine finding a Coach bag filled with Cartier. That’s what happened to him.”
“Either someone died or cheated 😭”
"My name is Kyle im glad were married now wheres my putter?"

“He probably broke a thumb trying to text back.”
“Showed my husband and he was excited for your husband 😂”
“My Apple Watch told me to calm down while watching this.”

That Cobra driver is a couple hundred dollars at least and the Scotty Cameron putter is most likely a good deal more, so this might be the best golf return on investment we’ve ever seen. Viktor Hovland and Rory McIlroy might be our most recent champions on tour, but Caroline Ecker’s husband is right up there in terms of golf bliss.

“When I brought the bag home and he got to check it out he about lost his mind,” Caroline Ecker added. We’re right there with him!