{"id":111335,"date":"2025-08-01T22:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111335\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:01:19","slug":"mark-pope-was-trying-out-his-golf-swing-at-keene-trace-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111335\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Pope was trying out his golf swing at Keene Trace on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of a well-deserved break from summer practices and workouts, the Kentucky men\u2019s basketball team hit the links on Wednesday for some team bonding. <\/p>\n<p>Head coach <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/mark-pope-132332\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Pope<\/a><\/strong> brought the whole crew out to play \u2014 or in some cases, learn for the first time how to play \u2014 a round of golf at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keenetracegolf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keene Trace Golf Club<\/a> in Lexington. The entire roster and most of the coaching staff made the trip out, and luckily, photographers were there to follow their journey.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, we wouldn\u2019t have these \u201cbeautiful\u201d pictures of Pope\u2019s golf swing. Solid form, coach. What do we think he shot for the day?<\/p>\n<p>We already know that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/collin-chandler-25135\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collin Chandler<\/a><\/strong> is a talented golfer from his adventures on the links this time last year, but what about the rest of the crew? <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/denzel-aberdeen-147282\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denzel Aberdeen<\/a><\/strong> posted a quick video of him missing a short putt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/1wayyzel\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on his Instagram story<\/a>, so his game still needs some work. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/mouhamed-dioubate-90492\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mo Dioubate<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s stroke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/onewayup_mo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is in the development stage<\/a>, too. But <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/jasper-johnson-158521\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jasper Johnson<\/a><\/strong> at least has the fist-pump celebration down, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/jayden-quaintance-159196\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jayden Quaintance<\/a><\/strong>, still recovering from an ACL injury, was out there moving around with ease. <\/p>\n<p>But the assistant coaches might have been having the most fun out of anyone \u2014 albeit at the expense of Mikhail McLean, who had Alvin Brooks III making fun of his form on Instagram. McLean took it in stride, though, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/coachmikhailmclean\/3688549546981029382\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posting a picture of Charles Barkley<\/a>, a notoriously hilarious golfer to watch, as a way to poke fun at himself. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-07-31-at-11.11.26\u202fAM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3490211\"\/>via Instagram: @coachmikhailmclean<\/p>\n<p>Check out the rest of the pictures from Wednesday\u2019s fun at the course below. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/news\/2025\/07\/30\/mens-basketball-golf-outing-photo-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Kentucky Men\u2019s Basketball Golf Outing Photo Gallery]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of a well-deserved break from summer practices and workouts, the Kentucky men\u2019s basketball team hit the links&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,70678,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-111335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-mark-pope-91-newport-senior","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114955766265250122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}