Fifty Questions Asked of a Pebble Beach Caddie. James Hudgeon

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СКАЧАТЬ answer was short and to the point and has proven to be correct. The game has changed, and I guess every great player knows what Casey knew. Casey’s answer was lower scores; the players are going to have to go lower too keep up with Tiger. When the world was trying to figure out how to lower their scores, along came the Tin Cup movie.

      Looping in the AT&T golf tournament at Pebble Beach is a great time; everyone is happy and loose. It’s a big party with celebs everywhere, with happy fans all around—some sober, and of course some fans not so sober or on their best behavior. The Super Bowl just ended Sunday; let’s keep the party going.

      This one year I was in the same group as Kevin Costner. His last movie release was Water World. I had not seen the movie, but in the background noise of the gallery I heard some things about the movie, mostly about the cost of the movie and the return at the box office.

      Later I did see the movie Water World and I liked it, but it did not have that Kevin Costner moment, like the postman on the horse and the kid reaching for the mail; I called that moment while watching the movie. Maybe in Water World that moment was when the flare was dropped in the oil and as it was falling the old man said, “Oh thank God,” and then boom—end of the bad guys.

      Kevin seemed none too happy about the chatter coming from the peanut gallery. He tried and did his best to make some money off a film, but it just didn’t work with this one. Payback is a mother; Kevin came back right after the game of golf and its fans with Tin Cup.

      From the start of the movie, to the end of the movie, from the best players, the worst players, the gadgets, the teaching pros, the bars, and the drinking and gambling, all the stuff golfers love, he even covered the caddie and his like-minded friends—all of it, and no one saw it coming. But I did, soon after the movie.

      Come on, man, lay up—no, I can make this shot, and there you have it, my Kevin Costner moment—the end of a four-hour round of golf as we knew it. Golf no longer was about the pace of play and doing the right thing on the golf course to help others enjoy their game. Slow play is a golf course killer.

      People started to wait on the tees, in the fairways, out of bunkers 225 yards away from the green on their second shot on a par 5. It was crazy. After that movie, my caddie job also went like in the movie Tin Cup: ball, ball give me another ball, I can make this shot. All a caddie can do if he wants to stick around is give up the ball and look back at the two groups on the tee that are laughing as you give up the next ball.

      Golf Course pass parking on the 4th hole

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