NFL Pro Bowl skills challenge to include long drive competition

Among professional sports, golf is transcendent, as numerous athletes from many ranks play golf all times during the year.

Stephen Curry, Michael Jordon, Tony Romo, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Larry Fitzgerald, John Smoltz and dozens of other pros have picked up sticks and used it as an escape from their realm.

Now, golf is making its way to the NFL’s annual Pro Bowl competition in an interesting way: a long drive challenge.

Come the 2023 Pro Bowl in Las Vegas, four Pro Bowlers from each conference will compete against one another in a long drive challenge. Each player will get three swings, and the player who drives the ball the furthest within the boundaries of the fairway will win three points for his conference. The long drive will be contested Thursday, Feb. 2.

This is tremendous. The 2023 Pro Bowl Games skills competitions are out and… I can’t wait to tell my kids when they get home from school that NFL players will play all their games pic.twitter.com/D9i4gAIfAv

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) January 11, 2023

With the NFL doing more skill challenges ahead of its All-Star week, it’s no surprise to see golf make its way into the event. Now we’ll get to find out which football players can hit bombs on the golf course.