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Exactly where the players were right before they showed up at the golf course is not certain.<\/p>\n

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They could have driven up from where they\u2019re lodging at the Cascade Hotel on the Country Club Plaza. Or from the Kansas City Current Training facility, where the Dutch squad practices, in Riverside.<\/a><\/p>\n

Or it\u2019s possible that the eight members of the Netherlands\u2019 World Cup team<\/a> \u2014 each dressed in white shirts with orange piping, plus shorts printed with the orange \u201cDutch lion\u201d \u2014 may have just come from the Downtown Airport given that one day prior they were in Dallas for a 2-2 match against Japan.<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, on Monday some of the greatest voetbal<\/i> players in the world decided to fixate not on a large ball and a net on the international stage, but on a tiny ball and a cup in Kansas City, North.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to assume they just Googled, got their phones out and said, \u2018golf courses near the airport,\u2019\u201d said Rhett Fregoe, the director of operations for the Tiffany Greens Golf Club<\/a> and where, he said, a phone call came in just before 3 p.m., telling him that members of the Dutch team<\/a> were on their way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey said this was their first stop and they said, \u2018We just flew in.\u2019 They literally had on their Tek T-shirts, and their gym shorts and they bought a couple of polos from us,\u201d Fregoe said.<\/p>\n

Two G\/FORE polos, one in teal and another in blue, and one pink Johnnie-O.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey bought a bunch of hats from us,\u201d with Tiffany Greens stitched above the brim, \u201dand a bunch of golf balls.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, they had no equipment. No clubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey rented all our rental sets,\u201d Fregoe said. \u201cThey rented four sets of clubs. They had eight players.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a full 90-minute World Cup match, players tend to run between six to eight miles.<\/p>\n

They rented four golf carts.<\/p>\n

General manager Hannah Noll typed the tee time and party name into the computer: \u201c3:09 p.m. Netherlands Soccer Team.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The public\/private club has received a few well-known people before as visitors. Former Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver JuJu Smith-Shuster, now with the New York Giants, had played there in the past. Earlier this month, on June 13, country singer Dierks Bentley played a round.<\/p>\n

Although no one at the club knew the Dutch players\u2019 names, and the players appeared to speak scant English, they made a lasting impression: tall, young.<\/p>\n

\u201cAthletic,\u201d said bar manager Rylee Cisna.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re massive,\u201d Fregoe said. \u201cThey were very, very, very muscular.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the players hit the first tee and sped off in their carts, four young women at the club \u2014 immediate \u201cfan girls,\u201d as Noll put it \u2014 made sure they snapped a photo with the players with Noll, Cisna, Sophia Rodriguez, who runs the beverage cart and bartender Isabella Cerv in the picture.<\/p>\n

The women then got on the internet to search the team roster to see if they could identify the players.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s the goalie, I think,\u201d Noll said.<\/p>\n

Tiffany Greens is an 18-hole, 72-par course. The Dutch players stayed out for five hours, drinking teas and soda and water, before they returned to the clubhouse and had coffee until sunset when the club closed.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the Netherlands is set to face Tunisia at 6 p.m. at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, renamed Kansas City Stadium during the tournament.<\/p>\n

That morning, at about 11 a.m., several thousands orange-clad fans are expected to amass at the Power & Light District to bounce and chant and, gradually, to march down to the site of the FIFA Fan Festival, on the grounds of the National World War I Museum and Memorial.<\/p>\n

By tradition, they will engage in what, by now, has become the fans\u2019 signature \u201clinks rechts\u201d dance, in which the entire throng moves left-to-right while singing in a clamorous display.<\/p>\n

A golf outing it is not.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published June 23, 2026 at 5:17 PM<\/span> with the headline “Netherlands World Cup players get their kicks at KC golf course. \u2018They\u2019re massive\u2019.” <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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