{"id":841285,"date":"2026-08-01T23:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841285\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T23:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:17:20","slug":"jr-smith-hilariously-lost-his-cool-during-celebrity-golf-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841285\/","title":{"rendered":"JR Smith hilariously lost his cool during celebrity golf event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JR Smith almost had a bit of a meltdown on Saturday while taking part in a celebrity golf event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith was one of the players in the Polymarket Classic, which featured him competing in pairs against golf influencers including Paige Spiranac. At one point, Smith missed back-to-back putts, including one fairly simple one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith looked ready to throw his club before he was able to calm himself down.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8NEW: JR Smith missed 2 putts and almost crashed out. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4R7BmVJ5Kc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4R7BmVJ5Kc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Polymarket Sports (@PolymarketSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PolymarketSport\/status\/2083620070710718801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 1, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith and partner Claire Hogle <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PolymarketSport\/status\/2083664221598806026\" rel=\"nofollow\">wound up losing 7-1<\/a>, so in many ways, that sequence was emblematic of his afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We do know that Smith is fond of golfing. After his NBA career ended, he even <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/jr-smith-college-golf-north-carolina-at\/582518\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sought to join a college golf team<\/a> after going back to school. He let himself down on Saturday, though.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JR Smith almost had a bit of a meltdown on Saturday while taking part in a celebrity golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,292968,82],"class_list":["post-841285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-jr-smith","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841285","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=841285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}