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Toronto Maple Leafs: Top Fore! Hockey Players Turned Golfers

By Stephen Nixon

TORONTO - APRIL 14: Mike Weir 2003 Masters Champion drops the puck for the ceremonial faceoff between Keith Primeau #25 of the Philadelphia Flyers and Mats Sundin #13 of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs at Air Canada Centre on April 14, 2003 in Toronto, Ontario. The Maple Leafs defeated the Flyers 4-3. (Photo By Dave Sandford/Getty Images/NHLI)
TORONTO - APRIL 14: Mike Weir 2003 Masters Champion drops the puck for the ceremonial faceoff between Keith Primeau #25 of the Philadelphia Flyers and Mats Sundin #13 of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs at Air Canada Centre on April 14, 2003 in Toronto, Ontario. The Maple Leafs defeated the Flyers 4-3. (Photo By Dave Sandford/Getty Images/NHLI) /
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TORONTO – APRIL 14:  The Maple Leafs defeated the Flyers 4-3. (Photo By Dave Sandford/Getty Images/NHLI)
TORONTO – APRIL 14:  The Maple Leafs defeated the Flyers 4-3. (Photo By Dave Sandford/Getty Images/NHLI) /

Everybody loves to joke that Toronto Maple Leafs players are great golfers because they typically have the longest summers.

Although that joke upsets many Toronto Maple Leafs fans, it’s actually kind of true.

Even though you can only play golf for half the year in Toronto, they’ve had a number of players that are really good golfers.

2020 has been a weird year as everyone already knows, but the one pastime that has stayed similar is golf. With hundreds of acres of land and the ability to social distance very easily, golf has been one of the few escapes for people who have been stuck in their homes for the past four months.

Even the Toronto Maple Leafs G.M., Kyle Dubas has gotten into the spirit of golf facing off with Gerry Dee against TSN’s James Duthie and Jeff O’Neil last month.

For many people in Canada, you play/watch hockey in the winter and play/watch golf in the summer. That’s just always been the routine for us up north because both sports intersect very nicely.

Hockey players love golf because if you can take a slap shot, you can crush a golf ball, and golfers love hockey because it’s our Canadian pastime. I mean if Happy Gilmore taught us anything, it’s that there’s no better combination than hockey and golf.

And like all Foreeeee (!) players on this list, they’re all “Hockey players playing golf today.”

Here’s the list of the best Toronto Maple Leafs players (past and present) at golf.

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