{"id":698722,"date":"2026-05-28T05:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698722\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:52:08","slug":"how-nba-nfl-and-wwe-stars-are-reshaping-golf-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698722\/","title":{"rendered":"How NBA, NFL and WWE Stars Are Reshaping Golf Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when celebrity <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">golf<\/a> culture mostly meant Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Ray Romano and a few annual Tahoe appearances.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s changed dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last five years especially, golf has become part of mainstream athlete culture in a way we really have not seen before. The modern crossover is different now. These are not retired athletes casually showing up at pro-ams once or twice a year. Many of today\u2019s biggest stars are genuinely diving into the game, posting practice clips, appearing in YouTube golf content, competing in celebrity events and openly becoming obsessed with improving.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps most importantly, younger fans are seeing it.<\/p>\n<p>That matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a time when celebrity golf culture mostly meant Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Ray Romano and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-698722","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\/698722","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=698722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}