Christian McCaffrey Buys Golf Clubs for All the Players on the 49ers Offense

Here's what McCaffrey said Friday in the locker room about the gifts he bought for his teammates.

Grant Cohn | Dec 23, 2023

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SANTA CLARA -- Usually, the quarterback buys Christmas gifts for his offensive linemen. But Brock Purdy can't even afford to live in the Bay Area without a roommate. So Christian McCaffrey has become the designated gift giver.

McCaffrey bought every member of the 49ers offense, not just the linemen, a fitted set of golf clubs and a bottle of tequila, because McCaffrey simply is that nice. Or he wants to make a statement that he's the leader of the team and therefore the MVP of the NFL. Take your pick.

Here's what McCaffrey said Friday in the locker room about the gifts he bought for his teammates.

Q: What was behind your gift for the players on the offense?

McCAFFREY: "Any time you're getting gifts, it's always tough. You've got to get creative, you've got to do something that panders to everybody. And I figured if they don't play golf, they will at some point in their life, so better to be prepared than not. It's nice to have a bag of clubs in your garage."

Q: You're doing a solid for Brock Purdy, because he's not rich enough to do this yet.

McCAFFREY: "He's doing as much as he can with what he's got, but eventually he'll be just fine."

Q: How many of the guys said they don't play golf?

McCAFFREY: "They will one day. Even if it's when you're done playing (football), you get bored, to get out of the house and go play 18 with the fellas, nothing better than that. Figured they needed clubs. To get them fitted for them too and to have a set that works, I don't know if it's going to do anything, but it might give everyone a bit of false confidence."

Q: How is your golf game?

McCAFFREY: "I'm alright. I feel like I'm just like everybody else. More bad shots than good. I just enjoy going out there and having a good time. I have to go in very intentional if I want to have fun. I've broken a few clubs, thrown a few clubs in the woods. Etiquette has been good sometimes and bad sometimes. I'm learning to have more fun with it."

Published Dec 23, 2023

GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.