KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes will move from the end zone to the putting green as he prepares to join three other star quarterbacks in Capital One's "The Match" golf competition on June 1 in Las Vegas.
Mahomes will team up with Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen against Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady, who announced last month he is returning to Tampa Bay after briefly retiring from the Buccaneers.
Brady announced the showdown in a Tweet.
We tried to make this a tag team cage match but the lawyers said our contracts wouldn’t allow it…#CapitalOnesTheMatch is back, June 1st. Let’s kick their ass @AaronRodgers12 | @JoshAllenQB @PatrickMahomes pic.twitter.com/3ByQqBkIJR
— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) April 18, 2022
The event will feature a 12-hole challenge and will be hosted by Wynn Las Vegas, Turner Sports said in a release.
Mahomes took to Twitter as well, saying "This should be fun."
Chiefs fans can see if Mahomes is able to drive the golf ball as well as he drives a football at 5:30 p.m. on June 1 on TNT.
The smack talk got started immediately when Mahomes met Monday with Kansas City-area media via Zoom.
“The reason we’re going to be able to win it is because we’re going to be able to play the course a little differently than 'Old Tom' and 'Old Aaron' over there,” Mahomes said. “They’re going to be playing nice and easy. They might get us on a couple par-3s and stuff like that. But whenever we can really open it up and use the drivers, it’s going to use our little wedges while they’re using their 6 irons. That will help us a little bit.”
Mahomes and Allen will be 26 years old for "The Match" compared to the 44-year-old Brady and 38-year-old Rodgers.
KSHB 41 News Digital In-Depth Reporter Tod Palmer contributed to this report.
