Swinging it like them: 5 NBA stars who love playing golf

#3 Ray Allen

Ray Allen tees off on the first hole during round one of the American Century Championship

Another great NBA marksman who simply loves the greens. Ray Allen brings the same mentality of hitting the target and getting it right from his basketball game to the golf course. He wrote about this, too, in one of his golf course posts on social media, saying, “No matter what sport you play, the pursuit for perfection is always the mission.”

But as Allen has also noted, there is no knowing what you may run into when you are playing on the golf course.

#4 Chris Paul

CP3 is referred to as Point God for his incredible handles and ability to make the right play on the basketball court. But Chris Paul also has a strong golf game. A few years ago, Paul was rated among the top five contemporary NBA players by Golf.com.

He has played alongside Tiger Woods and also hosted the Baha Mar Showdown in the Bahamas alongside NFL star Aaron Rodgers in 2019, an event that pitted golfers from the NBA against golfers from the NFL.

#5 Charles Barkley

Charley Barkley during the 2020 American Century Championship

The one person who continues to provide laughs even when he is teeing-off…or not. Charles Barkley used to be a very good golfer, but then developed a kind of “nervous twitch” that destroyed his golf swing apparently. Barkley tried to solve the problem by trying a variety of things such as “getting hypnotized” and working with Tiger Woods, but nothing seemed to solve his problem.

Although recent reports suggest that Barkley has once again rediscovered his golf swing, Jordan once famously joked about Barkley’s poor golf form, “That’s embarrassing…It’s really disgraceful that he can take a game of leisure and relaxation and make it a lot of work.”