{"id":352686,"date":"2025-12-18T06:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352686\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:01:21","slug":"rappers-golf-swing-at-celeb-tournament-takes-disastrous-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352686\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper\u2019s Golf Swing at Celeb Tournament Takes Disastrous Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rapper Ja Rule, best known for his early 2000s hit songs and his involvement in the <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/inside-ja-rules-fyre-festival-disaster-how-the-luxury-music-fest-became-lord-of-the-flies\/&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/inside-ja-rules-fyre-festival-disaster-how-the-luxury-music-fest-became-lord-of-the-flies\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/inside-ja-rules-fyre-festival-disaster-how-the-luxury-music-fest-became-lord-of-the-flies\/\">catastrophic Fyre Festival<\/a>, narrowly avoided disaster on Tuesday at celebrity-amateur golf tournament in the Bahamas. In a video posted to X by Golfweek writer Adam Schupak, Ja Rule, whose real name is Jeffrey Bruce Atkins, can be seen hitting the golf ball directly into a line of reporters, prompting immediate reactions from the crowd, with some behind Atkins jumping back in horror. \u201cJa Rule almost took me and a bunch of photographers out with his tee shot in the celebrity shootout at the Derek Jeter Invitational.\u201d Schupak wrote in the caption. Atkins begins to approach the photographers, asking, \u201cDid I hit you?\u201d before reversing course. Reposting the video on his <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/jarule\/3789230949931034605\/?hl=en&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/jarule\/3789230949931034605\/?hl=en\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/jarule\/3789230949931034605\/?hl=en\">Instagram Stories<\/a>, Atkins wrote, \u201cMy bad&#8230;\u201d along with a facepalm emoji and a laughing emoji. The tournament, organized by <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jeterturn2\/&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jeterturn2\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jeterturn2\/\">Jeter\u2019s Turn 2 Foundation<\/a>, is taking place at the Royal Blue Golf Club in Nassau this week, finishing on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-it-at-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchupak\/status\/2001022333000290373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read it at X<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper Ja Rule, best known for his early 2000s hit songs and his involvement in the catastrophic Fyre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-352686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}