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Does Arnold Palmer have any idea this is a member of One Direction?

Worlds collide: Arnold Palmer takes a photo with Rory McIlroy’s Par-3 caddie, whom he may or may not know.

With Caroline Wozniacki hanging out with NFL defensive player of the year J.J. Watt, the tennis star’s ex-fiance Rory McIlroy needed someone else to carry the bag for him in Wednesday’s Par-3 contest at Augusta. So Niall Horan of One Direction will handle the caddie chores for the world No. 1 in the hit-and-giggle show on the eve of the Masters.

Maybe Arnold Palmer knows who Horan is (and if he does, he’s one-up on this aging writer), or maybe not, but he graciously posed with the pop star for a photo, and anything that happens at Augusta during Masters week is now officially considered newsworthy.

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