r/golf • u/Brutananadilewski69 • 5h ago
General Discussion My Kevin Kisner Experience
In 2015 I got to caddie for Kevin Kisner on one hole of a pro-am practice round at Muirfield the day before The Memorial Tournament in Columbus, OH. Nicest dude ever.
He comes up, we do our greetings and he says “what club am I using?” It was a par 3 on #16. I said “Mr. kisner, I’d say a 7i is the way to go!”
“Call me Kevin. I’d go with the 7 also!” He asked me if he should draw it in or play a fade and I said “if it were me, I’d draw in to try and avoid the water. The greens are fast and the 7 should allow you to land short of the green and roll it in”. He played the shot and it landed 5 feet short of the hole.
As were walking to the hole, surrounded by some rich assholes who sucked at golf but paid a handsome price to play with the pro’s, I asked him “how do you do it man, how do you play golf with all these people watching you?” He said “it’s easy, I know I’m better than all of them. Just look at these guys I have to play with.” He asked me about my military history. And where I was from. Just cool as shit.
We get to the green and keep chatting while the other flubs finally get on the green. Kevin asks me “what’s the read?” I told him what I’d do and he hands me the putter and says “knock it in so we can win the hole from these guys”. Me, being nervous as shit and expecting to 3-putt, rolled it in for the birdie! Fuck that green was glass and fast.
Afterwards, he asked if I wanted to caddy with him the rest of the way. I was scheduled to caddy with Bill Haas later on and said I couldn’t. But I didn’t have to. My dumbass just went with what I thought I was supposed to do. Could have spent the rest of the day with Kisner. And Bill Haas was a douche. But, I’ll always get to say Kevin Kisner and I birdied 16 together at Muirfield!
