Here's an ESPN take in Jeff Merron's
The Year in Sex & Sports: 2003 column:
What's love got to do with it?
Lots of fans don't find the golf too compelling at the U.S. Open at Olympia Fields (outside Chicago), so porn star Brittney Skye decides to liven things up near the end of the final round.
On the 11th hole, just as eventual winner Jim Furyk is about to putt for birdie, Skye, topless, sporting two perfectly-placed pasties and a temporary tattoo touting an online casino, streaks out of the crowd and tries to give Furyk two roses. She's arrested, but it's mission (advertising) accomplished.
"I've seen (the casino's) ad tattoos before, and I thought it would be a great opportunity to get some exposure and be part of a new marketing trend," Skye says in a press release.
"It definitely caught me off-guard," Furyk says. "I looked up, turned around and the woman was four feet away from me holding a flower. All I was thinking was, 'I love my wife.'"
The casino had struck earlier in the year with similar tactics at the UEFA Cup Finals and the French Open (using a male), but Skye took the Internet by storm -- according to Slate's Rob Walker, the photo of her, with a full view of the casino's URL, was one of Yahoo!'s most e-mailed pages for a week.