Suns guard Archie Goodwin is very bad at golf

Athletic talent doesn’t always translate across sports.

Exhibit A: Phoenix Suns guard Archie Goodwin.

Goodwin and the rest of the Suns hit the Top Golf driving range on Tuesday, and the biggest storyline was how incredibly terrible the fourth-year guard was with a club in hand.

“His hands are all wrong,” teammate Tyler Ulis told Suns.com’s Lindsey Smith. “He’s right-handed; he has his left hand up front.”

Marquese Chriss and Devin Booker both would take Charles Barkley’s renowned hitch-plagued swing over Goodwin’s, the latter of which looks bad before he even starts his swinging motion.

“It looks funny, but at least he hits the ball,” Chriss said of Barkley as Goodwin whiffed on the non-moving object. “I think that’s the most important part.”

Goodwin, for what it’s worth, still exudes confidence in his swing.

Asked how his grip came to be, Goodwin fumbles around trying to figure out how and why it is the way it is.

“From what I’m told, you’re supposed to interlock some type of way here — no. This … You’re supposed to interlock some way like that. But me? I like to just go this way,” Goodwin said. “I think I’m very much ahead of the curve. I’m going to be a problem in another three weeks if I continue on the path that I’m going. I might just go PGA.”

Sure, we should cut the guy some slack since it was apparently his first time golfing.

But maybe he should stick to vicious game-winning dunks, which are apparently a lot easier than hitting a golf ball off a tee.

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