{"id":255803,"date":"2025-10-28T03:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/255803\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T03:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:12:08","slug":"the-golf-world-remembers-barstool-sports-cody-beef-franke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/255803\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golf World Remembers Barstool Sports&#8217; Cody &#8220;Beef&#8221; Franke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1slq7gi\">Cody Franke, a member of Barstool Sports\u2019 ForePlay podcast and lovingly known as \u201cBeef,\u201d passed away from a sudden medical issue over the weekend. He was 31 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1slq7gi\">\u201cCody truly loved the game of golf,\u201d ForePlay wrote in a statement. &#8220;He selflessly spent much of his life helping others improve and enjoy the game. Watching golf bring people happiness brought him happiness, and that infectious personality was felt by everyone who met him. He was universally known as the nicest guy in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1slq7gi\">Before joining Barstool in December of 2024, Beef was a PGA Professional. He spent six years in Southern California at Desert Willow Golf Resort before he was hired by Thornberry Creek at Oneida in Green Bay in February 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1slq7gi\">&#8220;Golf has always been home for me,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pga.com\/story\/becoming-barstool-beef-how-cody-frankes-swing-tips-turned-him-into-a-social-media-star\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Beef told the PGA of America<\/a>, \u201cit\u2019s something I can go do. If you go to the golf course, it doesn\u2019t really feel like work-work \u2013 I\u2019m just at a place I\u2019m really happy to be around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1slq7gi\">The golf world has lost a wonderful member. Our thoughts are with Beef\u2019s family, friends, coworkers, and everyone who had to pleasure of knowing him.<\/p>\n<p>The Golf World Remembers Beef<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cody Franke, a member of Barstool Sports\u2019 ForePlay podcast and lovingly known as \u201cBeef,\u201d passed away from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-255803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255803","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=255803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}