Steph Curry Shot A 71 In The First Round Of His Second Pro Golf Tournament

Steph Curry is one of the five best basketball players on the planet. He now has three rings to go along with his two MVPs after the Warriors locked up another title this June, and Golden State is showing no signs of slowing down on their championship pace entering the 2018-19 season.

This is the offseason, though, which means Curry has time to enjoy his favorite non-basketball activity: golf. Curry is well known as one of the league’s best golfers, and for the second straight year he’s putting his skills on the course to the test with some of the best golfers in the world on the Web.com Tour at the Ellie Mae Classic just outside San Francisco.

Last year, Curry went 74-74 to miss the cut in fairly impressive fashion for someone that doesn’t get to play on a daily basis, but he’s already off to a better start in this year’s event. On Thursday, Curry fired a 71 in the first round which puts him in a tie for 114th out of 156 golfers.

Curry stumbled out of the gate with three bogeys on his front nine, but bounced back strong with three birdies in his final seven holes to post that 71. As he grew more comfortable on the course, he started taking dead aim at some flagsticks and nearly holed one his approaches on the fifth and eighth holes.

This isn’t a PGA Tour event, but the Web.com Tour still features some spectacularly good golfers capable of posting low scores, they just often have issues with consistency that keeps them off the PGA Tour full time. So for Curry to go out and hang around with those guys, given the restraints on his time to practice his golf game and really work at it during the NBA season is fairly ridiculous.