{"id":185080,"date":"2025-09-27T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/185080\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:24:10","slug":"ken-griffey-jr-michael-jordan-share-ryder-cup-embrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/185080\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Griffey Jr., Michael Jordan share Ryder Cup embrace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two sports greats bumped into each other at the Ryder Cup on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Social media video captured the moment baseball great Ken Griffey Jr. and NBA legend Michael Jordan crossed paths while at Bethpage Black on Long Island, while they walked the course.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Griffey is on hand at the Ryder Cup as a credentialed photographer for this weekend\u2019s competition, while Jordan is in town to watch the action play out<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The video showed the two dap each other up as fans in the background tried to scream to get the Chicago Bulls great\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n

Griffey appeared to have a wide smile on his face as the they greeted one another.<\/p>\n

\"KenFormer MLB player Ken Griffey Jr. takes photos on the first hole prior to the Ryder Cup 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\"MichaelMichael Jordan talks with wifes of players from Team Europe during the Friday afternoon four-ball matches of the 2025 Ryder Cup. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The former major leaguer has been shooting photography since 2015 and has covered a number of events, including The Masters earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also photographed IndyCar events, the Daytona 500 and MLB, MLS and the NFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a conversation with The Post<\/a>, Griffey explained one of the challenges that he was expecting to face trying to photograph the Ryder Cup this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s gonna be four groups, so being strategic on where you got to go, I think that\u2019s one of the things that I\u2019m learning and mapping out,\u201d he said. \u201cI got to an assignment just like everybody else right now. I got to go in there and produce.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two sports greats bumped into each other at the Ryder Cup on Friday.\u00a0 Social media video captured the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,9090,7328,363,355,11383,99],"class_list":["post-185080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-ken-griffey-jr","tag-michael-jordan","tag-mlb","tag-nba","tag-ryder-cup","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}