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The Fake Media Day
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The Fake Media Day

Matt Wallace’s rise to the top of the game has been meteoric. Eddie Pepperell wanted to make sure that his friend, the four-time European Tour winner, stays grounded despite all of his recent success.

Eddie Pepperell in epic prank on Matt Wallace

So Eddie masterminded an epic prank that would test the very limits of Matt's patience.

The BMW International Open defending champion thought he was being asked to take part in a Media Day, but he was secretly being filmed from start to finish on a day where everything that could go wrong, would go wrong.

Starting with an unbearably annoying courtesy car driver, followed by an impossible voiceover session led by a pushy director and ending with an unfortunate accident in a BMW showroom, Pepperell watched everything that happened from a secret location.

Would Matt be able to contain his frustration, or would Eddie get the better of him?

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