This just in: Charles Barkley sucks at golf.
Charles Barkley uses one-handed golf swing and it’s not pretty
Charles Barkley may be an NBA Hall of Famer but his golf game is is so bad, he’s now going with a one-handed swing and still (shocking!) coming in last over the weekend at a celebrity golf outing.
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Yeah, not exactly headline material for the Hall of Fame cager whose golf swing even Tiger Woods ex-coach, Hank Haney, could not fix. Things have gotten so bad for the Round Mound of Rebound that he’s taken to swinging one-handed and -- shockingly -- still stinks (h/t Shane Bacon for the video).
Barkley took his “game” to Nevada over the weekend to compete against Annika Sorenstam and a bunch of aging celebrities (to call winner Mark Rypien, Larry the Cable Guy, Dan Quayle, and the like “A-listers” would be stretching things). Lo and behold, Chuck finished DFL, 41 strokes behind third-to-last Larry the Cable Guy.
“I wish I could give you an answer why [he struggles so on the golf course],” Barkley, in a rambling brain dump, told NBCSN, which broadcast the American Century Championship. “I just choke. I don’t know the reason for it. Under pressure, when there are people around and crowds, I can’t just swing the club. It is very disappointing and frustrating.
“Nobody wants to suck at anything in life.I would like to be a better player. It is frustrating,” Barkley added. “I am not going to lose any sleep over playing bad golf. But of course I would like to get better.”
Barkley, whose swing could give witnesses seizures, waxed philosophical about his lack of ability on the links.
“I am not going to get upset,” he said. “There are worse things in life than sucking at golf.”
