Reigning US Open golf champion Rory McIlroy will be imortalized by baseball’s San Francisco Giants as a bobblehead doll, a small statue with its head attached to a spring so it will wobble.
The Giants will stage Irish Heritage Night as a promotion before a Major League Baseball home game against Houston on June 12, two days before the start of McIlroy’s US Open title defense at The Olympic Club in San Francisco.
A giveaway item for special event ticket holders attending the game will be the bobblehead doll, which features Northern Ireland’s McIlroy wearing a Giants’ black cap with SF in orange lettering.
Bobblehead McIlroy is clad in an orange short-sleeved shirt with white pants and black shoes. His left hand is posed on his left hip while his right hand is holding the top of a golf club.
Such items help entice ticket sales, although most bobbleheads are of players from the host team.
But McIlroy is in good company as a non-Giant bobblehead. A promotion later in June features a garlic-headed bobblehead of Herbie, mascot of the nearby Gilroy Garlic Festival, clad in a Giants’ uniform.
McIlroy, 23, won his first major golf crown last June at Congressional Country Club in Washington, taking the US Open by eight strokes.
McIlroy to get bobblehead treatment for US Open
