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Caddies in the pre-modern era of golf also put in a hard day of work. Before wooden tees were ever invented, small mounds of wet sand served the purpose. The result was that caddies traipsed along the fairway with troughs of wet sand slung around their necks before it dawned on the members of the Innerleven golf course in Fife, Scotland to install stationary sand boxes on each tee...
...aging caddy, still languishing in the Rochester caddy yard, Hagen's antics are still a vivid reality. Bartlett becomes excited by simply recounting the favorite epigram of Hagen's aging chronicler: "He always used to tell the story about how Hagen showed up one morning on the first tee wearing a tuxedo...
Captain Scott McNealy skied to an 85. "I don't know what was wrong but I couldn't hit my long irons." Immediately after his bogey-filled round, the mystified McNealy retired to the practice tee with four buckets of balls and his long irons...
...yard sixteenth, McNealy pulled out a three wood for his second shot but still didn't have enough stick to reach the uphill par four facing into the wind. The sixteenth also exacted a double bogey from Vik, who drove his tee shot into the woods. Vik came right back, flipping a pitch shot that slithered to within one foot of the pin. He flubbed the rushed putt and had to settle...
Playing partner Foster carded an erratic 79, lacing his drive on the fourth into water. "He didn't measure up," said Vik. "He was wild off the tee...