Golden State Warriors: "Golf is a big part of the team culture"

We know the head coach, the star and two key players love golf, so it's nice to see SI's Alan Shipnuck round out the story of the Golden State Warriors and how golf is an important part of the team culture.

Shipnuck writes...

"Golf is a big part of the team culture," Iguodala told me at the team's practice facility in Oakland. He's only been playing for about two years, but is a self-described "junkie." He can rattle off the top five players in the world—female players. He hits the range every non-game day, and routinely shows up at practice in his golf togs. A fast learner, he shot a nifty 86 at Augusta, but he's quick to add, "I've got a long ways to go to catch up to that guy."

"That guy" is Curry. On this day, he was engaged in a putting contest on the hardwood with Lydia Ko, who had dropped by a Warriors shoot-around as part of an LPGA publicity tour. "I haven't seen Steph that excited in a while," said a Golden State front-office official. "And if he's excited, then all of us get excited."

Curry grilled Ko on everything from the degrees of loft on her wedges to the tenets of the "A Swing," the method promulgated by her teacher, David Leadbetter. Little wonder the NBA's reigning MVP calls himself "a golf nerd."