Stephen Curry is still feeling the glow of winning the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament last weekend.
He grabbed the title with an eagle putt on the 18th green on Sunday, but it’s a shot he made Saturday that continues to reverberate: a hole in one on the course’s par-3 no.
7. After draining the pitching wedge, he sprinted down the fairway in celebration at speeds not normally achieved by golfers unless they’re riding in a motorized cart. “I had to show off a little bit of athleticism,” Curry tells Deadline. “I kind of blacked out, so I don’t even know where that top-end speed and going from zero to a hundred real quick came from.
But that’s what happens when you don’t have any real preparation for thinking that hole in one was going to happen.” The success on the links is all the more impressive because golf isn’t even his best sport.
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