$9.4M-worth NFL star shares crazy pickleball experience with Scottie Scheffler – “Thankful that no one got hurt”

NFL star Golden Tate recently shared his pickleball experience with Scottie Scheffler. The $9,400,000-worth player admitted to being surprised by how good the World No. 1 golfer was at the game. The former Detroit Lions star said he ‘didn’t realize how good’ the PGA Tour star was especially under the conditions they were playing.

Tate revealed that Scheffler was comfortable playing with golf cart lights. He said that the 29-year-old impressed the rest of the squad, which included five-time PGA Tour winner Sam Burns, with his ‘reaction time and his footwork.’

The 36-year-old said he was ‘thankful’ no one including Scheffler didn’t get hurt despite playing under risky conditions. He said they ‘created a memory that night’ which they intend to tell a lot of people.

Speaking with former PGA Tour pro Smylie Kaufmann on the latest episode of The Smylie Show, Golden Tate said (at 43:32):

“I didn’t (know how good Scottie Scheffler was). I’d seen him playing like celeb Ams and I thought he had some game but I didn’t realize how good he was and especially how good he was under the conditions that we were playing…

“We play pickle ball with golf cart lights and pretty late and thankful that no one hurt but his reaction time and his footwork was good. He had really good hands and soft hands and he was able to place the ball. So, it was really fun to play with him and we created a memory that night. We’ll tell a lot of people it’d be fun to tell to.”