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Nashville, tenn. – The last day of the tight university of this year involved a sport different from that of football, the one that the co-founders Travis Kelce, George Kittle and Greg Olsen thought they were the ideal way to build more camaraderie.
“We have seen how Nashville summers are quite hot, did not want to put the guys in the fields two days in a row. So what is you, what is a way of bringing everyone? Golf. Everyone loves golf,” Kittle told PK Press Club Digital before playing the Hermitage Golf Course in Old Hickory, just outside Nashville.
It was always a Scurher under the Tennessee sun, but Kittle was ready to go out with his group, who understood Kelce, Olsen and his trainer, Jon Embee. And they may have needed earplugs when it was Kittle’s turn to Tee Up.
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San Francisco 49ers Serré Bout Toured George Kittle (85) against the Cardinals of Arizona at State Farm Stadium. (Images of Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn)
This is because Kittle has a certain fidelity to his driver, one with a noise piercing the ear that looks like an aluminum baseball bat rather than today’s usual that stands out from a “big stick”.
The Nike Sasquatch sumo2, known more often as the simple “sasquatch”, is no longer produced. His square face and his body, mixed with its black and yellow finish, makes it really unique in its kind – a bit like the man who brandishes him today.
Modern golf technology has created better pilots since, but Kittle has not hesitated to use it since 2014. He explained why.
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“I was a really, really bad golfer – not saying that I am well now – but I was really bad at university. I did not have beautiful clubs,” Kittle explained when he was asked why he would not move away from this particularly old driver for a more recent technology. “A guy with whom I played, a [Iowa Hawkeyes] Defensive line player named Brant Gressel, he had all these beautiful clubs. He was like a golfer of the 80s at the university. He had three poor training sessions in a row, and he just whispered in the woods, the sasquatch.
“I said to myself:” Hey, can I have that? “He said,” If you can get it, you can have it. “I have entered the woods, I got it, and it’s my driver since 2014. I keep it straight, that makes a big noise, and it’s great for the conversation because people are obsessed with that.
Kittle called the noisy ping, a sound that would save you with three holes, and even less in a practice, “clean” for him.
And if you think the opposite, Kittle does not want to hear it.
San Francisco 49ers the tight winger George Kittle (85) works with his teammates during an OTA at the Levi’s stadium on June 10, 2025. (Images D. Ross Cameron-Imagn)
“It reminds me of playing the tee ball in sixth year,” he said. “Is there anything better? I just went out with the boys who knock the ball? I love it. What if you don’t like it, it’s heresy and it will be punished.”
Now, because the club is no longer made, Kittle did not want to take a risk of having to buy a modern driver and to understand what was working again for his swing.
He took matters into his own hands, and thanks to certain research, he does not have to worry about it.
“In case I break it, I found six on eBay and I bought them all,” he said, smiling.
It’s a bit like wearing this favorite part of crampons or gloves in football: if it works, why change things?
San Francisco 49ers tight Bouthe George Kittle during a pro-Am practice round during the golf of Liv Nashville, on June 20, 2024, in The Grove in College Grove, Tennessee. (Matthew Maxey / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
For Kittle, golf concerns more vibrations than the results of the dashboard. Thus, while his competition juices always run on the football field, this golf trip to Teu was aimed at showing his peers a good time before returning home to prepare for the NFL training camp.
“Overall, just a fun moment to go out, have some buds of buds, have fun and really grateful for the hermitage for letting us go out here today,” Kittle said.
