Danny Noonan will be caddy next week at Winged Foot.
But it won’t be for Ty Webb.
Michael O’Keefe, the 65-year-old actor who played Noonan in the film “Caddyshack”, is ready to carry the bag for another Danny, Danny Balin, the head pro at Long Island’s Fresh Meadow Country Club, for Balin’s US Rounds. free practice on Monday and Tuesday. The news was first reported by New York Post and confirmed by the USGA.
“I thought, ‘What if there’s a golfer out there who’s willing to give me a chance to carry his bag?'” O’Keefe, who fell at Winged Foot in the early 1970s before the his acting career took off, he said The post. “They don’t mess with anyone. I know the course. It could be fun. “
Hence, O’Keefe wrote a column for Golf.com, offering his services to anyone willing to accept them. “Email me at [email protected]. I’m not kidding,” he wrote. She said The post who didn’t think anyone would bite, calling it “a long shot like Carl Spackler winning the Masters”.
But Balin, who heard this phrase: “Danny, are you on drugs?” – once or twice, he was interested.
“I try to take it seriously, so I would never do it during a tournament round,” Balin said. “But I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s going to be great. Danny Noonan. Monday and Tuesday. It will be a fun couple of days. “
Balin said he even recorded “Caddyshack” so he could memorize some of the memorable quotes and repeat them to O’Keefe next week. Apparently the USGA plans to generate some social media content for the occasion as well.
“I’ll have to watch him to get the lines so I can give it to him,” Balin said. “Because I’m going to be on him during this whole … stunt.”
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