Babe Ruth was one of the first celebrity golfers
The golf world has always been big on celebrities. Of course, there was the Bing Crosby Clambake at Pebble Beach, which later evolved into the AT&T Pro-Am. Additionally, there is the entire freaking celebrity "tour" circuit, which includes people like Carlton, Mark Mulder, Jeremy Roenick, Justin Timberlake, Charles Barkley, etc. Whether famous non-golfers like Steph Curry, Tony Romo, and Jake Owen should continue to receive these sponsor exemptions into prestigious competitions in order to garner a little additional attention is actually one of the great topics that are burning in the golf streets right now. But did you know that there was once a famous person who was also the most well-liked golfer in the United States? He was Babe Ruth, the golfer. This is an interesting fact about Babe Ruth.
The recent publication of an article on Babe Ruth's lifelong obsession with golf, which began when he was 20 years old, by Golf.com. According to the essay, Bobby Jones was unquestionably the finest golfer in America during the Babe Ruth period, but few people were particularly interested in golf because it was a minor sport in comparison to baseball. In comparison to today, tournament attendance was incredibly low, and there was virtually no TV coverage. Golf was more widely known than it had been before thanks to Ruth's involvement in the sport and his exhibition matches.
Ruth was the golfer who made the sport appear enjoyable in the 1930s. Ruth's enthusiasm for the game inspired millions of common Americans who had never imagined themselves participating in the sport of the wealthy. Sammy Byrd served as Babe's backup outfielder. These two are said to have changed golf instruction for good!
As his baseball career came to an end in the 1930s, he played practically every day alongside Sammy Byrd, a fill-in outfielder known as "Babe Ruth's legs." Byrd would fill in for Ruth because he was gouty and obese at the time. Byrd was arguably the best golfer to ever play major league baseball, which was more significant to the Babe. Byrd signed up for the PGA Tour and won six times after spending eight years with the Yankees and Reds.
In the 1941 and 1942 Masters, he placed third and fourth, respectively. In the 1945 PGA Championship match-play final, he fell to Byron Nelson and took home second place. While playing baseball, he taught Ruth how to play golf, but it was Babe who provided Byrd with practice advice that golfers still follow today.
