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- Adam Thielen has been impressing at the Waste Management Phoenix Open this week
- Brooks Koepka thinks it wouldn’t take much for Thielen to become a pro golfer
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We’ve seen a few athletes over the years try their hand at multiple pro sports over the years. There was Bo Jackson. Michael Jordan tried to play baseball. Even Russell Wilson showed up to spring training for the Yankees.
Now we have one athlete that some believe could actually play another sport besides the one where he currently competes. No, this isn’t going to be about Kyler Murray going to play baseball after he deleted the Arizona Cardinals from his Instagram.
Instead, it’s Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen having the skills to be a pro golfer. He might not quite be there yet, but Brooks Koepka doesn’t think it would take him long to get there. He told Golfweek about how impressed he has been by Thielen at the Waste Management Phoenix Open this week.
“We were laughing about it, my team — Jeff Pierce and my caddie Ricky — we were talking about it. It’s amazing. His ball speed is probably in the top 15 out here in ball speeds. I mean, on the last hole it was 179 and change.”
“We were laughing. Give him six, eight months to fine-tune the game and it’s almost like he could play pro golf. He’s just an athlete. Athletes it around. He’s good, obviously really good with football, I don’t need to say that, but I think he played baseball.
If Thielen were to try his hand at golf, he wouldn’t be the first notable football player we’ve seen on the course recently. It wasn’t that long ago that we watched Peyton Manning and Tom Brady duke it out on the course.
Maybe we can see Thielen and Koepka team up for a showdown with another NFL receiver one of these days.