Wow! What an experience. Larry had a chance to break 100 at Bethpage and almost pulled it off. It was a day of many ups and downs and we struggled to stay calm. Regardless of the results, it was fun to be a part of it. Larry fired a 101. We were so close. After a shaky start, he got on a roll and played holes 9 thru 14 very well. He was playing some solid golf and the crowd started cheering him on. A disastrous 10 on the tough 16th derailed him.

This caddy/teaching assignment is turning out to be quite interesting. I have never had to get ready for ONE round of golf….not for me or anybody else. If you are a tournament player, at any level, you prepare, you make your schedule and play in a number of tournaments. Two good weeks could make your year. If you have a poor week, you put it behind you and maybe make adjustments. The next week may be a victory. That is not true of this day, June 21st at Bethpage with Lt. Larry Giebelhausen. I have a recreational golfer (he didn’t even carry a handicap), on a U.S. Open course, with big celebrities on national TV. He has one shot….one round! How do you get someone prepared for that?

I invite you to tune in to the Golf Digest challenge on June 21st at 12:00 EST on NBC. I will be “on the bag” with Lt. Larry Giebelhausen of the Phoenix Police Department. He was the winner out of the 73,000 applications sent in with a six-word essay of why they think they could break 100 at Bethpage. Larry’s essay was, “I’m a cop. I’ll shoot low.” Also trying to break 100 will be celebrities Michael Jordan, Ben Roethlisberger and Justin Timberlake. Fred Couples is caddying for Jordan, Rocco Mediate is caddying for Big Ben and Anthony Kim is caddying for Justin Timberlake. It should be a blast!