Jeopardy! contestant confuses fans after sharing 'tough' US Open story

Jeopardy! fans wanted to make sure they heard what a contestant said right.

On the Friday, July 19 episode of the ABC trivia game show, viewers at home saw two new contestants, software engineer from Pennsylvania Neilesh Vinjamuri and logistics director Dave Gutierrez, face the three time returning champion, Jay Fisher from Illinois .

Coming back from the first commercial break, Ken Jennings, host, gave a fun fact about each of the contestants. Neilesh started it off and revealed he spent the day watching one of America's greatest sports, golf, but not just any sports tournament, he attended the US Open.

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Neilesh said: "Eight years ago, I was at the US Open and there's two different ways you can approach the US Open as a visitor. You can follow your favorite golfers around or you can sit at the 18th hole and wait for all the golfers to come in and then you get to see the winning putt up close." He continued: "We picked the latter so we were forced to stay the entire day at the 18th hole eating Uncrustables, I think, and eventually we did get to see the winning putt."

Ken brought up Neilesh's software engineer expertise into the conversation and made a reference. He said: "It does seem like a software engineer's approach like 'I'm going to hack the US Open' this is the most efficient way to watch. I love that"

A viewers at home was confused to what US Open Neilesh was referencing to at first since some only know about what, tennis, The person wrote: "Oh, that US Open, not this US Open #Jeopardy," with a gift of a tennis star. Another person poked fun, writing: "Neilesh and his friends crawled through 500 yard of foul-smelling s--- — well, they did something nearly as tough, subsisting on Uncrustables in the grandstand on 18 at Oakmont… #Jeopardy."

Neilesh is no stranger to experiencing wins and beat the three time champ Jay and Dave. This came as a shock to some as the software engineer started a bit off. The final scores after Final Jeopardy! were: Jay with $5,401, Dave with $400 and Neilesh $12,000.