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What treasure of a life Mr Smith has had . I remember he lived next to Mr Trippi but I didn’t know he was from Wrightsville . I hope he breaks 70 in a few years .

True story…I wanted to put it in my book but to date I still haven’t written it so I’ll share it here…for the life of me I cannot remember what year it was, I want to say early 90s, I caddied at Augusta National for a couple of years, it was the only way poorer people like me could play the course. In any event, on one occasion I was honored to caddy for Loran. It was a great day. He was (and I imagine still is) a very friendly man with a low keyed charismatic personality, but he wasn’t much of a tipper back then let me tell you, lol. His excuse was that the members told him tipping was not allowed. Most guests ignored the directive and often slipped a little cash into their caddy’s hand during the obligatory 18th green handshake. Not LORAN…

As for the round of golf, for those that don’t know, Mr. Smith had a very decent golf game back then, I imagine a mid-single digit hdcp. The one thing I absolutely hated, caddying for LORAN, was that he took a perfectly straight shallow divot that extended about 10 inches long after every iron shot. The reason I hated it, you ask? As caddies we not only carried the member/ guest’s heavy arse golf bag, but also had to carry a shoulder bag full of grass seed and sand. I guarantee you I went thru 5 bags of the seed mixture caddying for LORAN that day!

But back to the main point of this story, being a huge pup fan I was overjoyed getting to carry the famous LORAN Smith’s bag. On the first tee LORAN hit one of his patented low draws up the left edge of the fairway. As caddies, rule number 1, we were trained to not give yardage or advice to guests unless they asked. When we arrived at his ball I noticed Loran was looking at the yardage on the sprinkler head and quietly calculating his yardage. To Mr. smith, I apologize, lol, but as a rabid Dawg fan I couldn’t resist…in my deepest Larry Munson scowling voice I looked at him and asked “LORAN…what do you got?” Kind of caught him by surprise as he looked and stared at me blank faced! Then he let out one of his patented Loran Smith chuckles and said that’s funny right there, that will be enough of that! We had a pleasant round.

Former Bulldogs in the Masters…technically it’s 5 that made the cut. The cheating thief Reed was a pup until he got kicked off the team. But I don’t blame the author for not wanting to claim him.
What A great round Henley had! Harman has played in 8 under par since that disastrous first round 79, Little man with big heart for sure! All 4 Bulldawg players mentioned in this article shot under par rounds yesterday, no small feat considering the firmness of the course. Nice showing pups!

For sure not a speed burner, but has awesome vision. He will need time to develop due to playing in the smallest classification. Love his attitude and with time, maybe another Dan Jackson!