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The PGA captured Maye’s relief for “just hitting the club face” on his first tee shot.
Drake Maye showed off his smooth golf swing at a Pro-Am before the PGA Truist Championship. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)
Drake Maye is a man of many talents, and golf certainly belongs on that list as the Patriots quarterback showed off his smooth swing in his PGA Pro-Am debut this week.
But Maye was prone to a bad shot or two as well, and carried a humble and relatable attitude to the golf course, as cameras captured him just praying to not shank the ball on hole 1.
“I hit it good,” Maye said with a giddy voice off the tee box. “I hit it on the club face, that’s all that matters, [Keegan].”
Maye’s parents introduced him to golf at a young age, seven or eight, according to his estimation. His smooth swing reflected that, even if not every shot was perfect. On top of his obvious prowess at the quarterback position, Maye was an elite high school basketball player, has shown off his ping pong skills in the past, and now has a documented above-average golf game.
He played the Pro-Am alongside Keegan Bradley, who is originally from New England but formally hails from Florida since he played most of his amateur career in the Sunshine State.
While Maye acknowledged his nerves on the first tee box, Bradley traded nervy stories, offering his first pitch at Fenway Park as “the most nervous I’ve ever been.”
Showing more of his human side, Maye struggled near the green. He self-admittedly “can’t chip,” and that proved to be the weakest part of his golf game, as he struggled on two consecutive chips that didn’t reach the green, before seemingly conceding the hole altogether.
And in yet another very relatable moment, Maye found himself singing along to Ella Langley’s hit single, “Choosin’ Texas” while walking down the fairway towards his ball.
The funniest moment of Maye’s round came courtesy of a spectator giving him the scare of a lifetime. Maye hit a wayward shot into the rough near a crowd of fans, and whether he actually hit anyone is up for debate, but one spectator took it upon himself to lie on the ground playing dead a foot or two away from where Maye’s ball landed.
Maye isn’t the first Boston sports superstar to appear in a PGA Pro-Am. Jayson Tatum tried his luck at the event in the past when it rolled through Memphis. Maye’s golf game fared better, but both took time to give the fans in attendance a special day. Maye was captured signing a PGA hat for a young fan this week at the end of his mic’d up video.
The MVP runner-up from 2025, Maye is seemingly set for a loaded offense in 2026. Romeo Doubs is already signed, A.J. Brown’s trade is the worst-kept secret in the NFL, and he’ll still have Hunter Henry, Rhamondre Stevenson, TreVeyon Henderson, and others at his disposal as well.
The NFL will announce its 2026 schedule on Thursday, April 14. Until then, Maye and New England’s Week 1 opponent will be a mystery. But even when it is revealed, Maye will still have plenty of time to work on his golf game before the Patriots’ pre-season really gets underway later this summer.
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