Stephen Curry narrates his match-play round against Roger Steele at the 2025 American Century Celebrity Golf Championship at Edgewood Tahoe, offering shot-by-shot commentary and technical breakdowns. He grades his own play, discusses wind and elevation, and reflects on competing as the defending champion while hanging with family and other celebrities.
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All right, this is from the SC30 lens. We're here on hole 15. Michael gave him a good club.
That's right.
He's gonna smoke this. I said smoke it and I smoked the tree. It went over there.
I never saw it.
It went left by the cart path over there. We like that try though, great effort. Let's see, you wanna talk to me about the Wolfpack right here? We bring 'em from all shapes and sizes, all backgrounds, all countries, denominations. We travel deep, you know, in the spirit of golf, bringing some great people together. And when I bring all these great people together, I take all their money on the course. That's what I'm about to do. Who's the biggest whale here? The man leading the stretches and activations, Mr. Carl Bergstrom. Let's test your accuracy.
That green flag right there. What green flag?
Right there.
That's, uh, you're asking a lot, Tony. I mean, you got a couple warm-up shots. I think you got it. I mean, I'll take that.
I don't know where it went. I don't know if the camera picked it up, but—
Oh, it's like 5 feet. Oh, is it? That's ball. Ball.
That's LeBron right there.
That's LeBron. He like that. That might go in, Steph. Woo-wee!
Appreciate it.
Good bird, good bird.
Little ball marker for the ACC. We got a little Warriors, 1-7, strength in numbers, and hoping those numbers are a lot of 3s.
No cap.
Partner!
Sit. That wind died.
So right there, he was about 155 actual. We were gonna play at 165 because he was into the wind. As soon as he was getting ready to take that club back, the wind just completely died. So we ended up about 10 yards long, unfortunately, but it was a perfect swing right at the stick.
Difficulty 9 out of 10. Just trying to get it inside of 5 feet.
You might have to play this off the fringe.
Yep. Let it fall out. Would you say this is 50 feet?
No, this is like 80. 80? And then it's probably, I mean, from there, getting it through this, but then from there it's—
Touch it.
It's just all feel.
That's ball right.
I'm gonna give that a B minus. B-minus. Tough grader. Hit it a little too hard. Probably would have chipped it if I had another chance at it.
No rookie grades, right?
Exactly. Oh, there he is.
Thank you. Was that classy? That's classy right there. Nice little tune-up. For the weekend. My partner and I were a great little duo. We ended up pushing and tying the match, so no fireworks, but hit some good shots, hit some bad shots. We had some fun.
One step closer to another championship.
You know, the whole goal is, you know, Steph, I'm really just trying to invest in your confidence, man. You know, defending champ, I want to see you do well. You know, I want to box with you, but you know, I'm gonna make a decision late on what I think the outcome should be.
I have a strong feeling you buttering me up, 'cause I remember what happened last time we was out here.
We only played 2 holes. Stop.
All right, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. You saying too much.
You saying too much.
You saying too much. We're just warming up, baby. We're warming up.
Wow, we've got a couple variables here. We've got elevation, which obviously helps the golf ball go further, but we've got a lot of wind right now. So we're kind of factoring in that combination of how much hurt and how much help we have. So ball striking's good. We just gotta figure out distances.
It's in the hole.
Serve!
That's super clean! Let's do another intro.
Hey y'all, hey, welcome to the American Century Championship. It's your boy Roger Steele. I'm here with B. Stephen Curry. You may have heard of him before. We out here with the PJ Tour Superstore.
Hey, y'all know I just ran that hole?
And we have an 18-hole match play, match play. Got an 18-hole match play event that we're playing. Let's go! 18 holes of pure match play.
Crank it.
Do a vertical one.
That was so good! Kind of dope with the cart sign in there.
We are back at Edgewood Tahoe Resort, South Lake Tahoe, Nevada. American Century Championship 2025. Missed last year, had a little hiatus. For a reason, but I'm back as me and Marty still haven't figured out what the title is. Are we co-defending champions? Are we— there's just two defending champions and you just kind of roll with it. But it's nice to be back here after the win 2 years ago and having some fun. It's Wednesday. I'm playing against Roger Steele right now. A 1v1 match. Unbelievable environment. People out here having a great time and it's only Wednesday. Oh yeah.
What's up?
Thank you.
Burning daylight.
We're burning daylight.
I was on the left side and I was—
Put a tee in the thing and I'm hitting it. Day 1 at Tahoe. Beautiful vibes, beautiful warmups, but we're gonna have some more fun. Day 2 tomorrow, one more warmup, then we go get the dub.
Let's go. See that cut on the ball?
That was that last bunker shot, a lot of spin. Good scar on that one.
Yikes, bite marks.
Smash factor, which is the relationship between the clubhead speed, which is how fast how fast this club's traveling at contact, and the ball speed, which is how fast the ball comes off the face. So a high smash factor is a really efficient golf swing.
Do you know what the record is?
I've never seen anything higher than 1.52.
Okay.
Golf belt up for grabs. Me, Pops, and Seth. So we're all having our matching outfits on for day 3, Friday.
Let's get it. Let's get it.
Let's get it. Technically it's day 3, but it's day 1. Lock in.
Oh, look at the hands. There you go.
Oh, wow.
Beautiful.
Nice shot, Stu.
Nice.
That was like a birdie.
That is a birdie.
[FOREIGN LANGUAGE] We love you, man. Hey, right here.
Your daughter loves you. She's right there.
Is it good? I'm sorry.
It's legit.
Jeff, can you show me?
I'm dead. Obviously fun playing with my dad and my brother in matching outfits and everything. Joe said it yesterday, But with golf, you don't know what your game is going to feel like once you get into the tournament, first round. So, you want to make birdies, but keeping the big numbers out is always important. So I'm excited for tomorrow. The top 10 looks pretty stacked. There's names that have won, have won. Should be fun.
The fit is phenomenal.
I knew we should collab.
Hope you like it.
Round 2, American Century Championship. Obviously didn't have my best stuff today, but I grinded the last, whatever, 11, 12 holes. Had a lot of fun. Again, the crowd was amazing. I have an outside chance of winning, but I'm trying to like reset goals to— in golf, there's only one winner, but try to get, you know, top 5, top 3, even if you don't have your best stuff. Like, that'll be a fun goal to go after for the the last round, but again, happy to be here. Like, playing golf in this environment doesn't get much better than that.
Alright, thanks, guys.
Yeah.
Hey.
Hey.
Nice to see you. Nice to see you. How are you? Good, how are you? Good, man.
Appreciate you coming.
Come on, man.
Trying.
How you doing?
Good.
Arthur, this is Daniel, bro. What's up, man? So that's a wrap.
Tahoe 2025 Edition. Gave it a good run on Sunday. Thought I had a chance. Then I wanted to go ahead and hit it out of bounds on 18, but gave myself some life. Had an amazing time. My dad, my brother, the whole crew. Appreciate everybody coming out, checking it out. We're gonna golf some more later on this summer, but Till then, I'll see ya.
