Fearless golfer Billy Horschel: I’m no Swiftie, it’s just a bracelet

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Billy Horschel wants you to know that he’s definitely not a Swiftie. Wink, wink.

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The PGA Tour golfer’s wrist has recently been turning a few heads during autograph sessions with young fans. For the past few weeks, Horschel has been wearing a bracelet sporting the motivational message “Fearless,” which also happens to be the name of pop megastar Taylor Swift’s second album and hit song.

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Total coincidence?

“After the Players Championship, talking with my team and my wife about how I just need to go out there and play with less fear, got to be fearless, so my wife made me a ‘fearless’ bracelet,” Horschel said ahead of this week’s Valero Texas Open.

Righto. Case closed.

“So listen, Taylor Swift is massive in my household,” Horschel said. “My girls went to a Taylor swift concert last year in Atlanta with my wife and they are massive Swifties.”

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The truth comes out. How about you, Billy?

“I’m not the biggest Swiftie,” he said.

Mmm-hmm. Horschel is sticking to his story. He explained that he recently had a dream in which he saw the word ‘Fearless’ on his wrist and decided it might be a sign. When he told his wife Brittany that he was thinking about writing it on his wrist with a Sharpie at the next tournament, she had a better idea.

“She said, ‘Well, I’ll just make you a bracelet.’ So she made me a bracelet. I didn’t realize this either, I don’t think my wife realized it at the time, I guess Taylor Swift’s second or third album is Fearless and she has a song Fearless.”

Who knew? Any more Fearless plans, Mr. Horschel?

“I thought about a tattoo, but I’m not a tattoo guy.”

Swiftie, yes. Tattoo guy, no. Got it.

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