Yes, Jacobson Plays Great Table Tennis Even In Prison Garb

Max Adler noted the exploits of PGA Tour players at table tennis and highlighted master Frederic Jacobson, who is captured in arguably the least or most flattering photo to ever run in a golf magazine, depending on your view of table tennis as a sport.

Or red as a color to be worn in matching shirt and pants.

"The toughest thing for someone who didn't grow up training is to read and return the spin of a real serve," says Fredrik Jacobson, who was a nationally ranked teenager in Sweden. At 15 he decided he loved the outdoors too much to keep going in the sport.

Impromptu battles develop during rain delays or lunch, and Matt Kuchar once gave Jacobson a scare. "He was up pretty good on me, and then I won the last few sets to just get ahead and win," Jacobson says. "I can't say I was proud of the way I was hitting it. I had on my golf shoes with metal spikes."