Today star Danika Mason appears to have been in a golf cart that crashed during a charity golf day last Friday, with her Nine colleague Karl Stefanovic taking great delight in highlighting the incident on Monday’s show.
Stefanovic – who was also at Aussie surf legend Mick Fanning’s charity day in Queensland – put up a shot of a golf cart bearing Mason’s name after it seemingly crashed into a lake on the course.
‘Can you explain this shot? This is at the Mick Fanning golf day on the weekend, I just want to take you to this shot here,’ Stefanovic told viewers.
‘Just on that golf cart there, which is in the ocean, can you explain what happened there?’
A laughing Mason replied, ‘Hey, that’s a sign of a good weekend!’
Mason was sharing the cart with surfer Macy Callaghan and the Nine footy reporter obviously saw the lighter side of the unplanned excursion, sharing Today’s post about it on her Instagram story on Monday morning.
Danika Mason (pictured) saw the lighter side when her mishap at a charity golfing day was revealed on Today on Monday morning
Pictured: The state of the cart Mason shared with surf star Macy Callaghan at Mick Fanning’s fundraiser in Queensland last Friday
Pictured: Callaghan and another golfer in the cart during the wild charity day
Daily Mail Australia does not suggest alcohol was a factor in whatever happened to Mason’s golf cart – but plenty of other attendees at Fanning’s fundraiser were up-front about having a few beverages during their round.
AFL WAG Bec Judd revealed in an Instagram post that she’d been ‘having too much fun’ while raising funds for Aussies who’d been hit by the floods in the northern rivers region of NSW.
She listed things she learned during the day at the course in Coolangatta.
‘A bar and entertainment at most of the 18 holes is very dangerous,’ she wrote, before adding, ‘Shoeys aren’t that bad if the shoes are clean.’
Judd admitted in a later post to ‘having the time of your life dancing in the buggy, slightly drunk and distracted’ with the golf day’s Instagram account also posting a photo of her drinking that shoey.
The event – which also attracted stars like footy legend Brendan Fevola, singer Shannon Noll, comedian and Nine star Hamish Blake, AFL star Mason Cox and tennis great Dylan Alcott – featured espresso martini bars, lashings of Fanning’s Balter beer and even backflipping motocross daredevils on the course.
Videos from the event showed one participant appearing to be thrown into a lake, shocked stars hitting exploding golf balls, and four male players pulling their pants down and mooning the camera.
One shot posted by the day’s Instagram account showed Callaghan having a drink of some description while in the driver’s seat of the buggy but Mason wasn’t a passenger at the time.
Celeb attendees had a big day on the links, with footy WAG Bec Judd (pictured doing a shoey) later joking ‘a bar and entertainment at most of the 18 holes is very dangerous’
Surf icon Mick Fanning (pictured) has raised more than $2million since starting his golf days in 2022, helping flood-hit Aussies get their lives back together
A laughing Mason (pictured) said the vision of the seemingly crashed golf buggy was just ‘a sign of a good weekend’
Fanning’s golf days have been a stunning success since they were first held in 2022, and this year the celebrities could’ve bagged a stunning $1million and a Mercedes-Benz if they hit a hole-in-one.
‘Since 2022, we have raised almost $2million, which is something I am very proud of,’ the former world surfing champion told Daily Mail Australia.
‘I’m not much of a golfer myself, I just like having a hit with my mates.
‘Knowing it is for such a good cause, that motivates me.’
Mason is now vying for the title of Australian TV’s hardest-working star as she juggles covering the NRL with her work on Today.
She often goes from covering matches until late at night on a Thursday before being front and centre in the studio with hosts Stefanovic and Sarah Abo before the crack of dawn, then backing up to cover the NRL once again on Friday night, and then again during the Sunday afternoon match.
This Sunday she was at Homebush as wild scenes hit the Bulldogs vs Rabbitohs clash, with play halted due to dangerous weather as lighting strikes forced both teams from the field.
It was the first time an NRL match had been suspended due to dangerous weather since an Anzac Day hailstorm struck in 2015.
