What is a “Thai rotator”? Professionals explain “The best shot I’ve ever had”

Keith Mitchell will cruise at the 2025 Texas Children’s Houston Open. But, in particular, the sly shot made Mitchell laugh – Golf fans poured out on Friday night. It was called the “Thai spinner” and Mitchell explained everything after the second round.

Mitchell’s heroic bunker shooting

The scene is the first round of the game held at Memorial Park on Thursday. The PGA Tour veteran hit a tee on a 9-hole in the 3rd and hit a defender’s green space bunker, and he described the nearly impossible scene in a press conference.

“I was behind the bunker and my lips were behind me, so I really couldn’t just slide up and down straight up and down enough to hit the ball high up and down, landing on the green and stopping it,” Mitchell explained. “There was water on the other side and almost everything was bad for me.”

Mitchell then details the “only shot” he could make from that location: the Thai spinner.

“The only shot I can think of is just stabbing it, first grab the ball, then try to stomp it on the slope and then spin it while it’s on it.”

It’s safe to say he deleted it. As you can see below, Mitchell has his plan, and in what he says is one of the most important shots of his life.

“I don’t know how I did it, but it’s probably one of the best shots I’ve ever shot, almost walked into the hole like I wanted.”

Mitchell’s footage impressed himself so much that he posted his video to his Instagram page. The post has received comments from other travel professionals.

“It’s funny, and when I initially posted, the only people who commented or texted were other tourers because of what they were like, because they knew exactly what that was and how difficult it was,” he said. “You know, we all know the kind of shots that each other touched each other and those guys hit the shots that I might never hit or wouldn’t hit in that situation. It’s really fun to walk back and forth between each other when you know someone actually did.”

Mitchell opened the T9 in the third round of the Texas Children’s Houston (T9), four shots behind Scottie Scheffler.