Being a PGA Tour participant means you get to hang around with some fairly cool firm.
Take the 2022 Tour Championship when Max Homa was launched to now-former NBA energy ahead Blake Griffin.
“He instructed me the story about I’d gone to go to a child that was at his that he went to highschool with,” Griffin instructed GOLF Subpar co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz on this week’s episode. “I went to go to him within the hospital. He, like, wasn’t doing effectively and sadly handed away. And I wore one in every of his bracelets throughout a recreation and I had it on like a post-game interview.
“He was like, ‘Dude, I don’t even know in the event you bear in mind this, however that child went to my highschool. You realize, I knew him rising up and everyone on the college thought it was so cool. And it simply caught with me eternally.’”
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That connection immediately linked the 2 they usually went out to dinner that evening. Homa had simply shot 62 at East Lake throughout the second spherical of the event.
“This man simply fired 64 (sic) for the Tour Championship, and he’s simply sitting at dinner, hanging, speaking and like, essentially the most down-to-earth individual ever,” Griffin mentioned.
On the time, Homa’s spouse Lacey was pregnant with the couple’s first youngster. So when it was time to go away, Griffin used his 6-foot-9, 250 lbs body to good use: Clearing the way in which so Lacey may get area to stroll out.
That’s not the one participant Griffin has hung out with. He additionally frolicked with Justin Thomas and Collin Morikawa on the Netflix Cup final fall in Final Vegas. He and Thomas are even repped by the identical company.
For extra from Griffin together with how he obtained into golf, try the complete episode of GOLF Subpar beneath.
