FLOURTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Jason Kelce flubbed his pitch shot from the thick rough next to a green on the ninth hole — on a round that featured more “Go Birds” chants than birdies — and muttered a common refrain from most weekend golf warriors:
“Hey, that’s why I’m an amateur,” Kelce said.
Kelce could have crowd-sourced some golf tips from the scores of fans that followed him hole after humbling hole on Wednesday during a rare PGA Tour stop in the Philadelphia area.
The retired Philadelphia Eagles center has tried in his first year of retirement to up his golf game and lower his score, taking the task of trying to get it in the hole as seriously as he did opening them as he once did on the offensive line.