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Tiger Woods Cigar Guy's true identity has been revealed: No, he's not Sacha Baron Cohen. The Daily Mail, whose remarkable photo of Tiger Woods’ golf ball milliseconds before it smashed into a photographer’s camera at the Ryder Cup last week made a mustached, cigar-chomping guy a worldwide star, did some admirable sleuthwork and tracked the man down: His name is Rupesh Shingadia, and he is a 30-year-old investment analyst in London. Shingadia, who is familiar with his viral online fame and says that "never in a million years could I have expected anything like this," explains his costume:

We still don't know the identity of the cigar-chomping guy with a mustache whose face launched a thousand Photoshop spoofs after he was spotted incongruously watching Tiger Woods whack a golf ball into a camera at the Ryder Cup. A new photo taken from a different angle (above) shows that his supposed 'turban' is actually a red ponytail wig, though, (h/t Urlesque) which some see as furthering the theory that Cigar Guy is in costume to honor/poke fun at Spanish golfer Miguel Angel Jimenez. But now, there's a new theory kicking around about Cigar Guy's identity: He's actually comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, of Ali G/Borat fame, hard at work on a new, sports-obsessed character named Afzal, a "muslim pansexual transvestite sports professional."