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Stephen Curry, the star of the NBA Warriors, surprised everyone by competing in a tournament within The Underrated Golf Tour, a four-date circuit that celebrates its second edition and is designed to give opportunities to non-professional players .
The first event of this tour was this past weekend in West Palm Beach, Florida, with 96 athletes participating in tests that simulated participation in a professional tournament. Among them, the NBA star, who is the visible head of an event designed to give young golfers opportunities with difficulties to gain a foothold in the professional world.
Stephen Curry, results
What started as an advertising invitation became a showcase of his talent and competitiveness. Although he admitted to being nervous at the beginning, Curry improved throughout the tournament, signing a +4 card on the first day and repeating with another +4 on the second.
Despite missing the cut, he received praise from several professional golfers and left a great impression by competing with dignity in the professional arena of golf. Beyond his good performance, Stephen surprised with some very high-level blows, leaving more than one stunned after a fantastic and distant blow that ended up holed after a devilish spin.
The video has spread like wildfire on the networks and has surprised many fans, so impressed with the shot that they came to describe Curry as “the best shooter in all of sports.” Wardell Stephen Curry II, better known as Steph (Akron, March 14, 1988), is an American basketball player.
The Golden State Warriors, which he captained, were four-time NBA champions, defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers three times and the Boston Celtics once. In the 2015-2016 season, they also set a record for regular season wins (73, breaking the previous record set by Michael Jordan‘s Chicago Bulls).
In the same season, he was unanimously elected MVP of the regular season, an award he had also won the previous year. In 2022 he won the best player award of the NBA Finals (also unanimously). For the Warriors he is also the best scorer in history.
Considered the best shooter in basketball history, he is considered one of the greatest and most influential basketball players ever. Holds the record for most triples made in a season (402 in the 2015-2016 season) and second most triples made in a single game (13, achieved November 7, 2016, later broken by Klay Thompson).
On December 14, 2021, he became the player with the most 3-pointers in NBA history, beating the previous record held by Ray Allen (2,973). On December 28, 2021 in the game against the Denver Nuggets, he becomes the first and currently only player in NBA history to exceed 3,000 3-pointers in his career.
In ESPN’s 2020 rankings, Curry ranks 13th on their list of the 74 greatest NBA players of all time. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the birth of the NBA, at the beginning of the 2021-22 season the league compiled a list of the 75 greatest players of all time, among which Curry was also included.
