Steph wants to play on PGA Tour Champions after NBA career originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
It doesn’t seem like Steph Curry’s post-NBA career will consist of much basketball.
In fact, the Warriors star plans to pursue a post-playing career in a completely different sport.
Curry spoke in an article for Golf Digest about his love of golf and his plans to play professionally after his Hall of Fame NBA career comes to an end. Whenever that day may be.
I feel blessed to be on the cover of @GolfDigest for a second time! It’s been a great year in golf for me and my team, so it was great to sit down and discuss all the business @UnderratedGolf , ACC Championship and more. Check us out! pic.twitter.com/nVQGvLYuJv
— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) May 28, 2024
Curry, 36, hopes to one day join the PGA Tour Champions, the tour’s professional senior league for golfers 50 and older.
“I don’t know what the path is,” Curry told Golf Digest. “All I know is that when I’m done with basketball, I’m going to reasonably invest as much as I can into my golf to see how good I can be, and where that takes me in 14 years, we’ll see.”
Curry already has a good name in the golf world. Last summer, he won the annual American Century Championship in Edgewood, South Lake Tahoe, while competing in multiple iterations of Capitol One’s “The Match” against PGA Tour and NFL stars.
Michael Neff, the founder of the biomechanical analysis system GEARS that provides motion analysis of golfers’ swings, was able to analyze Curry’s swing and was impressed with what the statistics showed.
“We tested hundreds of tour players and most of Stephen’s numbers were correct [with PGA Tour averages]. I was floored,” Neff told Golf Digest.
It’s no surprise that Curry’s natural strength and athleticism translate to the fairway. PGA Tour star Jordan Spieth, a personal friend of Curry’s, told Golf Digest that if he were to play against Curry in a match, he would probably only see him six strokes and is impressed by the NBA star’s distance from the tee.
“He would immediately be one of the tallest players on the Champions tour,” Spieth said. “He would tear up par 5s, so it would come down to how tight he can get his play from 150 yards and in, because you can’t miss on either side of the flag. It’s clear he has the clutch gene, but what impresses me most is his joy. As long as he has been playing basketball, it has never seemed like work to him.”
Curry won’t be able to defend his ACC title this summer due to his commitment to play for Team USA in the Paris Olympics, but he will certainly continue to put in as much time on the court as possible before gearing up for the 2024-25 NBA season, his 16th in the league.
And when his illustrious basketball career comes to an end, Curry will set his sights on competing with golf’s best on the PGA’s senior tour.
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