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Video: Basketball star D'Angelo Russell's woeful attempts at hitting a golf ball

May 26, 2015

Presumably hand-eye coordination is an important aspect of sports, including golf, and presumably a college basketball star has great hand-eye coordination. So, presumably, he should be able to hit a golf ball teed up. Presumably.

But not in the case of D'Angelo Russell, a first-team All-American at Ohio State and projected to go high in the NBA draft. Here he is, in an Instagram video, attempting to hit a golf ball, woefully so, especially for someone who went to the same university that Jack Nicklaus did: