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Larry Fitzgerald is a living legend. Enshrined in both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame, he famously had more tackles (41) over his 17 seasons in the NFL than dropped passes (29).<\/p>\n
On the golf course, Larry Fitzgerald<\/a> is a stick. His GHIN \/ index at his home course of Whisper Rock Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona is listed at a 5.8 with a low of 4.9. He has competed in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am for years and was an honorary co-chair of the U.S. Amateur Championship in 2024.<\/p>\n But before Larry Fitzgerald was able to join Whisper Rock Golf<\/a> Club he was flat out told he would never be a member. He recently shared this story, and the reason why he couldn\u2019t join, in a conversation with Brian Baumgartner of The Office who is a PXG sponsored golfer (who I met last Fall at a PXG event<\/a> at Scottsdale National) and co-host of the We Need A Fourth podcast with Cooper Manning and Kenny Mayne.<\/p>\n Why Larry Fitzgerald Wasn\u2019t Allowed To Join Whisper Rock Golf Club<\/p>\n This story has become local lore around the Scottsdale golf scene as well as in celebrity circles. So it was great to hear it straight from Larry Fitzgerald\u2019s mouth as he set the record straight on what happened.<\/p>\n Brian Baumgartner, who played Kevin Malone on The Office, asked Larry \u201csupposedly the story goes Whisper Rock told you that you couldn\u2019t join until you broke 90, is that true?\u201d<\/p>\n Fitzgerald laughed it off at first as if he didn\u2019t see the question coming but then dove into the explanation, saying it wasn\u2019t the club itself but the \u201ctsar, the benevolent dictator of Whisper Rock, Mr. Gregg Tryhus\u201d that wouldn\u2019t allow him to join and he explained why. Larry said he had a mutual friend with Gregg Tryhus who took him out to Whisper Rock and introduced Larry to Gregg.<\/p>\n He says they went out and played Whisper Rock and afterward Fitzgerald told Mr. Tryhus \u201cI would be honored if I had an opportunity to join (the club\u201d to which Gregg Tryhus laughed in his face and said \u201cLarry, there\u2019s no chance in hell you would ever join this golf club because as as nice and friendly as of a man as you are, there\u2019s no way in hell I would ever want to play behind you. And I\u2019m definitely not going to make any of my members play behind you. You\u2019re absolutely terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n Larry Fitzgerald said this happened sometime around February shortly after the Super Bowl was over. After that, Gregg Tryhus told Fitzgerald that if he could improve and go break 90 that they would \u201cmake it happen\u201d and he would be welcome to join the club.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n As much as I love this story I really need to know what sort of shape Larry Fitzgerald\u2019s game was in before that round. Because there is a distinct difference between a \u2018good golfer\u2019 and a \u2018fast golfer.\u2019 A bad golfer can play fast and a good golfer can be miserably slow (ie., Patrick Cantlay).<\/p>\n If Larry Fitzgerald was both bad and slow that\u2019s a horrible combination in the game of golf. But it is hard to imagine Larry being slow at anything. He was one of the fastest and most agile wide receivers the NFL has ever seen. And we\u2019ve all seen him swing a stick now, he\u2019s turned his game around and is a single digit handicap.<\/p>\n The clip is also available on TikTok for those who prefer that medium over YouTube:<\/p>\n If you enjoyed that story make sure to smash the \u2018subscribe\u2019 button on the \u2018We Need A Fourth\u2019 podcast YouTube channel above for more golf stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect Larry Fitzgerald is a living legend. 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