Per the Detroit News’s Tony Paul:
They’re some of the legends of their time. But give them a golf club and surround them with hundreds or thousands of fans, even they feel pressure.
“Little embarrassing, little humiliating,” Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo said last year, with a smile, after playing a few holes with Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau. “But then again, my sport is not golf. I’m not sure either one of those guys could make a free throw.”
Izzo will take his hacks again this year as one of the headliners participating in the Rocket Mortgage Classic’s AREA 313 Celebrity Scramble at Detroit Golf Club.
Izzo will be joined in the celebrity category by Detroit Lions legends Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson, Red Wings star Dylan Larkin, World Long Drive competitor Maurice Allen and musician Kelley James.
The scramble, which in 2019 was named the PGA Tour’s “Best Special Event,” will tee off at 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 26, and the teams will play the course’s signature stretch — the par-5 14th, par-3 15th and par-4 16th. Fans can see the action for free, as Tuesday and Wednesday are complimentary ticket days at the Rocket Mortgage Classic this year.
