Saturday 5 August 2017 15:40, UK
After NBA's Steph Curry made his debut in a professional golf tournament we take a look at some other sport stars to have tried their hand at golf.
Curry played at the Web.com Tour's Ellie Mae Classic on a sponsor's exemption and carded two successive respectable 4-over 74s but missed the cut with an eight-over total.
British racing driver Mansell became good friends with a certain Greg Norman and through their relationship he received an invite to the Australian Open in 1988.
Mansell, who went on the win the Formula One World Championship in 1992, had a handicap of 1.9 - underlining his golfing ability - but his appearance at the Royal Sydney Club that year owed much to Norman's persuasion to the Australian Golf Union to offer a wildcard.
The publicity Mansell received put him under considerable pressure ahead of the tournament, but he managed to cope away from his comfort zone of a race track.
Mansell finished his first round with a birdie to card a respectable five-over 77, a mere two strokes poorer than Ian Woosnam. However, he was playing with a ruptured muscle in his left arm and struggled in his second round to 14-over 86.
Mansell didn't stop there - he went on to play at the 1989 Balearic Open, carding 87 and 82 and the South Australian Open, shooting 79 and 80.
Romo, who formally announced his retirement from NFL in April, attempted to qualify for the US Open in May but a three-over 75 wasn't good enough to progress past the the initial qualifying event to a further sectional qualifier.
The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback has always had a passion for golf even when he pursued his dream for a NFL career. Before his rookie season in 2003, Romo made his first attempt to qualify for the US Open before trying once again the following year.
In 2005, he fell just short after carding a three-under 69 as his NFL career was taking off. Each offseason Romo would play golf on a regular basis and consistent practice towards his passion appears to have paid off, as he continues to play in amateur competitions to this day.
"He's one of those gifted athletes that whatever he picks up, he can do," Woods said about Romo after playing with him at the 2012 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
Kafelnikov, the former world No 1. in tennis, has played 20 times in the European and Challenge Tours. Unfortunately, the Russian has missed the cut every single time.
The former two-time Grand Slam champion made his European Tour debut back in 2005 - only a year after retiring from professional tennis - at the Russian Open in Moscow.
However, after receiving a wildcard to compete, he carded dismal rounds of 88 and 96 to finish a full 40 strokes off the cut line.
Kafelnikov's venture into golf, which has seen him crowned Russia's golf champion in 2011, included an unsuccessful tilt at qualifying for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Lendl won eight Grand Slams during his tennis career but has had a long lasting hunger to compete in golf. He once admitted to playing around 250 rounds in a year.
The Czech-born American attempted to qualify for the US Open in 2008 through the various local qualifying stages.
Lendl, a former world No 1. in tennis, carded his best round in a professional tournament at the 1999 Dominion Open with a 76.
Lendl still plays golf near his home in Vero Beach, Florida outside of his coaching commitments to Andy Murray.
Draper was able to juggle two sports, making his professional golf debut at the 2005 Victorian PGA Championship less than a week after winning the Australian Open mixed doubles title with Sam Stosur.
However, by the end of the year, he had turned his focus to golf. In 2007 he won the NSW PGA Championship - making him the only person to have won titles on both the ATP and PGA tours.
The former Davis Cup player was a golf professional for four years before injury forced him saw him back to the amateur game as his tennis coaching commitments took over.
