There’s usually a silver lining to everything if you look hard enough. And for Macklemore, it’s the fact that the pandemic has given him more time to work on his golf game.
The Grammy Award-winning rapper and musician has always been athletic, playing baseball, basketball, soccer and other sports growing up in Seattle. But it wasn’t until two years ago that he took up golf, and now he’s hopelessly hooked.
That obsession has led him to create his own collection of golf apparel — Bogey Boys — that will launch online today.
“I grew up playing sports, but not golf,” he said from Pebble Beach in California, where he’d just finished nine holes. “There was a little par three near where I lived in Seattle and I’d go out every once in a while, but I never played 18 holes or hit a driver.”
That changed in 2018. “One day after Thanksgiving, I was peer-pressured into going out and playing golf. My first tee shot I hit directly into a house.” But he persevered and later in the round, he used a five iron to hit out of a sand trap, “and I hit it pure. That feeling stuck with me and now I’m

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