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Nashville, Tenn. And The last day of this year’s tight end university involved a sport other than football, one that co -founders Travis Kelce, George Kittle and Greg Olsen thought would be the perfect way to build more camera.
“We saw how Nashville Summers is pretty hot wouldn’t put guys in the fields two days in a row. Then you know what, what’s a way to get everyone around? Golf. Everyone loves golf,” Kittle told Pakinomist Digital before playing at Hermitage Golf Course in Old Hickory, just outside Nashville.
It was still a scorcher under the Tennessee Sun, but Kittle was ready to go out with his group, which included Kelce, Olsen and his coach, Jon Ekree. And they may need some earplugs as it was Kittle’s turn to tee up.
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San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) against Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium. (Mark J. Revilas-prescribed images)
That’s because Kittle has some loyalty to his driver, one with an ear-drilling noise that looks like an aluminum baseball bat rather than today’s usual sound coming out of the face of a “big stick.”
Nike Sasquatch Sumo2, more commonly known as simply “Sasquatch”, is no longer produced. Its square face and body, mixed with its black-yellow finish, really makes it one-to-one-stroke-like the man who still exerts it today.
Modern golf technology has created better drivers since, but Kittle has not wobbled from using it since 2014. He explained why.
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“I was a really, really bad golfer – and didn’t say I’m good now – but I was really bad at college. I didn’t have lovely clubs,” Kittle explained when asked why he won’t get lost from this particularly old driver to a newer technology. “A guy that I played with, a [Iowa Hawkeyes] Defensive Lineman named Brant Gressel, he had all these lovely clubs. He was like a golfer from the 80s in college. He had like three bad drives in a row, and he just whips it into the forest, Sasquatch.
“I was like ‘Hi, can I have it?’ He said, ‘If you can get it you can get it.’ Went into the woods, it grabbed and it’s been my driver since 2014. I just keep it, it makes a big noise and it’s great for conversation because people are obsessed with it.
Kittle called the tall ping, a sound that would make you jump three holes away, so much less at a lane, “cleansing” to him.
And if you think anything else, Kittle won’t hear it.
San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) trains with his teammates during an OTA at Levi’s Stadium on June 10, 2025. (D. Ross Cameron-Preferred Pictures)
“It reminds me to play tee ball in as sixth grade,” he said. “Is there anything better? Just going out there with the boys just hitting the ball around? I love it. And if you don’t like it, it’s heresy and it will be punished.”
Now, because the club is no longer made, Kittle would take no chances of having to buy a modern driver and find out what worked for his swing ever again.
He took the cases in his own hands, and thanks to some research he doesn’t have to worry about it.
“In case I ever broke it, I found like six of them on eBay, and I bought them all,” he said, smiling.
It’s a lot like wearing the favorite part of bricks or gloves in football: If it works, why change things up?
San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle during a pro-am practice round under Liv Golf Nashville, June 20, 2024, at The Grove in College Grove, Tennessee. (Matthew Maxey/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
For Kittle, golf is more about the Vibbes than the results at Scorecard. So while his competitive juice always floats on the football field, this golf trip at Teu was about to show his friends a good time before going home to prepare for the grinding, which is NFL training camp.
“Overall just a fun time to get out there, have a couple of buds, enjoy yourself and really grateful for Hermitage for having let us go here today,” Kittle said.
