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Baseball legend Derek Jeter in his two-decade career in the Bronx never swayed from his one agenda. That was to keep his personal life separate from his professional one. No matter what the tabloids said about him, he did not utter one single word. If the rumors are considered true about his personal life, then he dated a long list of women. By the time the former Yankee hung up his cleats in 2014, he had become better at many things. One of the things he became more than good at during his career was taking a swing.

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More than two years into dating the supermodel Hannah Davis, the former shortstop had apparently tried helping his partner take a swing, but not with a baseball bat.

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How did Derek Jeter help Hannah Davis learn to take a swing?

Early in the year 2015, when the couple got engaged, the supermodel posted a video of her trying golf for the first time. In her early days, the model had played tennis for a brief time. But this was new for her. Therefore, she was not good at it.

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But that does not mean she did not try. Even though her taking a swing needed quite a practice, the outcome wasn’t so bad. Apparently, her swing got famous enough, and she did not like the attention that she took the Instagram post down. Or maybe she did not like her swing either.

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Having played tennis since she was eight years old, she became an accomplished tennis player not long after. She was a champion on the Caribbean National tennis team and played on the Caribbean Tennis Circuit. But was her playing golf right about the same time as her beau a coincidence?

When did Jeter start playing golf?

Although the former Yankee played basketball briefly to stay in shape before getting drafted by the Yankees, he did not play any other game in the twenty years he spent in the Big Apple.

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However, right after the Hall of Famer got retired, he tried his hand at golf. Therefore, when his girlfriend at the time also started playing golf, it does seem like it wasn’t any coincidence. But the couple was playing together. 

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Rakshita Madan

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Rakshita Madan is an MLB writer at EssentiallySports, with a prolific portfolio of over 1000 articles to her credit. Rakshita's admiration for the legendary Derek Jeter is well known, but she never lets her personal biases affect her writing. She is particularly intrigued by the twists and turns of the game, and it is this aspect that keeps her hooked on the sport. When Rakshita is not covering baseball, she indulges in her love for poetry and OTT shows. This passion for creative expression reflects in her writing, which is often characterized by a poetic sensibility and a flair for storytelling.

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