Two-Sport Athletes
New York Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner just found out how expensive golf is with this purchase (UPDATE: Bryson DeChambeau invites Sauce Gardner for a lesson)
Winslow Townson
New York Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner is hardly hurting for money right now. The former NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year is heading into year three of his four-year rookie deal worth $38.7 million fully guaranteed, the type of money that allows you to justify just about any purchase, no matter how frivolous.
Scratch that. There is no justifying a recent purchase Gardner made at the golf course, of all places.
The lockdown corner first took up golf in April of 2023, when he played in an Alumni Outing for the University of Cincinnati, his Alma Mater:
Yes, straight is ideal, Sauce. But it was clear based off this clip that he was eager and willing to learn. Over a year later, on Wednesday, Gardner tweeted that playing golf is "the only thing I've ever been addicted to." We call that getting "the bug," folks:
Three mintues later, he tweeted this:
Jeez, just how many balls did Sauce lose in that three-minute timeframe? Time to hit the range, bud.
All kidding aside, if we can give Gardner some advice as a beginner, it would be to go for the TopFlites and not the highest-end balls like ProV1s or TaylorMade TP5s that will run you just under $60 like he said. If you're going to be hitting it all over creation, you've got to go cheap. Where's a sleeve of Slazengers when you need it?
This story takes a twist, though, when you find out that TaylorMade literally makes balls with Sauce Gardner's likeness on them, which just so happen to be $54.99. Either Sauce isn't getting these for free, or he knows the price tag, understands the value of a dollar and hates losing them. Respect to that. But still, for now... TopFlites.
UPDATE: After claiming he was about to lose a dozen golf balls, Sauce wound up live tweeting his round on Wednesday, and even began soliciting tips from Twitter/X swing experts. And some of them worked.
Let's jump ahead to Thursday, when Bryson DeChambeau caught wind of Sauce's golf tweet spree and made him an offer that he can't refuse:
What a world. Bryson and Sauce literally "growing the game." Should make for quite the YouTube video.