David Johnson of Mayville, N.D., empowered hecklers everywhere Thursday when he accepted Team Europe’s putting challenge during a Ryder Cup practice round and sank the 12-footer the pros missed.

Moments earlier, Johnson yelled, “You can’t make this putt” to Justin Rose, who was lining up the putt. Teammate Henrik Stenson gestured to Johnson at the rope line and waved him onto the green. Johnson, dressed in blue jeans, a red fleece, loafers and a Twins baseball cap, bounded onto the putting surface as the crowd erupted.

He grabbed Andy Sullivan’s putter and doubled down on his hubris.

“This is a short putter. Where’s D.J.’s putter?” Johnson said, referring to 6-foot-4 U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson.

As he lined up the putt at No. 8, the crowd chanted “USA! USA!” Rose approached and dropped a $100 bill at Johnson’s feet. Then the duffer calmly drilled the putt into the back of the hole.

Johnson did an underhanded fist pump and double high-fived the European foursome, which included Martin Kaymer and Rory McIlroy.

“Man, that was fun! What just happened?” Johnson said after returning to the gallery. “I don’t know. I blacked out a while ago.”

Johnson had waved off Rose when the 2013 U.S. Open champion handed him the C-note, but he eventually pocketed his earnings.

“Is there any way you can have him sign it for me?” he asked a handful of journalists who immediately surrounded him. “I’d rather it be signed, (but) I’ll take it.”

Johnson was asked how he ended up putting on the No. 8 green at the world’s biggest golf event.

“I razzed them a little bit, and they heard me, which is insane, and they brought me out, which is more insane,” he said. “Haven’t fully realized what just happened. Overall, that was a pretty cool experience. I’d go ahead and do that again. That was nice.”

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Rosario: The thing that made me care about Ryder Cup golf Heckling is easy. Making a 12-foot putt that the pros missed in front of a crowd that could have buried Johnson is entirely different.

“But I told you I could make that putt. It wasn’t a tough putt,” he boasted. “I was freaking out. (But) oh, I was going to make it. No, the grain was towards me because the sun’s coming at me from this direction. I closed my eyes, swallowed my puke and hit the putt and it happened to go in, so that was cool.”

Stenson said Johnson’s make took the edge off.

“He’s the man of the hour, the day, the week,” Stenson said. “The boys were struggling with the line so Dave here offered to come out and show us how to do it. And he certainly did; drilled that 12-footer right in the back of the cup.

“Now he can tell the whole world that the European team are the ones that have the most fun.”