You only need a bogey on the par 5 last hole to win the Canadian Open and you hit Driver??

[MarathonMike]

Bud Cauley won his first tournament in a 15 year career today, but it wasn't without unneeded drama. The last hole is a par 5 and the only trouble is super thick rough and bunkers only reachable with a Driver. All he needs is bogey. So his caddie let's him hit Driver!! Sure enough he hits it into foot high rough on the edge of a bunker. His stance was so bad he fell into the bunker after hitting his shot but hit a great shot and made par and won.

My point is, the job of a caddie is to give his pro the right club for the shot. I thought it was going to be another Van De Velde finish, but Cauley pulled it off. Congrats to Bud Cauley his career was almost ended with a car accident but he stuck with it.

 

[Darkwind]

Bud Cauley won his first tournament in a 15 year career today, but it wasn't without unneeded drama. The last hole is a par 5 and the only trouble is super thick rough and bunkers only reachable with a Driver. All he needs is bogey. So his caddie let's him hit Driver!! Sure enough he hits it into foot high rough on the edge of a bunker. His stance was so bad he fell into the bunker after hitting his shot but hit a great shot and made par and won.

My point is, the job of a caddie is to give his pro the right club for the shot. I thought it was going to be another Van De Velde finish, but Cauley pulled it off. Congrats to Bud Cauley his career was almost ended with a car accident but he stuck with it.

Well, in a PGA tournament, the final say in club selection is the player, however:

I agree. He should have at least shown him the range card -- is that allowed at that level, I truely don't know and never thought about it until just now -- and tell him that with his length of driver, a 3-wood max would be the play.

 

[odanny]

5th most starts without a win, until today.

 

[MarathonMike]

Well, in a PGA tournament, the final say in club selection is the player, however:

I agree. He should have at least shown him the range card -- is that allowed at that level, I truely don't know and never thought about it until just now -- and tell him that with his length of driver, a 3-wood max would be the play.

I guarantee you that both Cauley and his Caddie new the distances to the bunkers to the yard. It was a 3 shot hole anyway. When he hit it into the crap, I thought it was Jean Van De Velde all over again.

 

[bdtex]

Sure enough he hits it into foot high rough on the edge of a bunker. His stance was so bad he fell into the bunker after hitting his shot but hit a great shot and made par and won.

I held my breath when he hit that second shot on 18 today.

 

[DGS49]

Is this a toxic masculinity thing? Would he have looked like a ***** if he teed off with a 3-wood or even a long iron? He would certainly have been on in regulation if he had done so, requiring only a 3-putt to win. I think that might have been part of it.

But it was a great story anyway. All those years of struggling through no fault of his own. Too bad the TV audience was not interested - no Scottie or Rory in the mix, so the casual fans were watching Beverly Hillbillies reruns or Soccer(!) rather than the golf.

 

[odanny]

Bud Cauley had the break of a lifetime, when the only bad shot off the tee all day was a terrible one headed into the forest, only to hit a passing golf cart on the cart trail at the exact right time, and the shot bounced off back towards the fairway and into a good lie in the first or second cut. It might have been 12, and I think that was the hole he chpped in (see video above).